Somehow this can't be right....

[kathym]

Last night i ate beans with broccolini .Baci ate grilled chicken with brown rice broccoli and pumpkin . :P

[Hunter's Mom]

I have to admit, I am really thankful that I no longer cook weekly for Hunter. That's what it was like at my house with ground organic, free range, grain fed beef, greenbeans, carrots, and sweet potatoes while I ate frozen food. Now we feed Natural Balance and suppliment with little homemade treats occassionally. Its not ideal (ideally we would cook for him) but I just haven't been able to with the new job, house, and all the doctor's appointments. I have to admit though - we eat a lot better now

[The A Team]

I don't do home cooking, except for chicken to add to the pups food....but my daughter says I never treated her this good for a lot of reasons... ....oh....didn't I? I don't remember, things were harder then.....

[princessre]

Sounds about right!

I also did the bi-weekly cooking tonight for Casanova

Wild Pollock
Organic Spinach
Organic Green Beans
Organic Tender Peas

We were better today...we usually get take out, but tonight we did have
Wild King Salmon
Organic Asparagus

[Smithville55]

I don't want to offend anybody, but cooking meals and letting yourself have to eat frozen or leftover food, just so your dog can eat a good meal is crazy. I can understand paying a little more for healthy dog food, but home cooked meals? Come on, They're dogs! They don't know what you're doing. They've spent years eating out of dumpsters throughout history, why do people think they need home cooked meals? Especially if it is stretching your budget and you have to eat frozen food or leftovers. Seriously. I know you love your dogs, but they're dogs. I'm sure they don't care what they eat. They drink from a toilet for crying out loud.

sorry, I just wanted to rant.

[LJSquishy]

QUOTE (Smithville55 @ Jun 14 2009, 03:30 PM)

I don't want to offend anybody, but cooking meals and letting yourself have to eat frozen or leftover food, just so your dog can eat a good meal is crazy. I can understand paying a little more for healthy dog food, but home cooked meals? Come on, They're dogs! They don't know what you're doing. They've spent years eating out of dumpsters throughout history, why do people think they need home cooked meals? Especially if it is stretching your budget and you have to eat frozen food or leftovers. Seriously. I know you love your dogs, but they're dogs. I'm sure they don't care what they eat. They drink from a toilet for crying out loud.

sorry, I just wanted to rant.[/B]

The members on Spoiled Maltese do not feed homecooked meals to their Maltese just to "spoil" them -- in fact, most of them hate having to cook for them because it is expensive and time consuming. They choose to do it because it is the healthiest option for their Maltese, and they know that there are no harmful additives, fillers, and junk going into it. With all of the pet food recalls happening within the last few years, it's the safest option. It's just as important to provide healthy food for your pet as it is to your own human child. And I'm sure no one on here is "forced" to eat frozen meals or leftovers because of the cost of their pets' homecooked meals...they are not "that" tight on money. lol Obviously if things were "that" tight, they would make some adjustments in their budget.

I choose not to homecook for London because it is too time consuming for me and I free-feed her (we don't have set meal times).

[angel's mom]

QUOTE (Smithville55 @ Jun 14 2009, 05:30 PM)

I don't want to offend anybody, but cooking meals and letting yourself have to eat frozen or leftover food, just so your dog can eat a good meal is crazy. I can understand paying a little more for healthy dog food, but home cooked meals? Come on, They're dogs! They don't know what you're doing. They've spent years eating out of dumpsters throughout history, why do people think they need home cooked meals? Especially if it is stretching your budget and you have to eat frozen food or leftovers. Seriously. I know you love your dogs, but they're dogs. I'm sure they don't care what they eat. They drink from a toilet for crying out loud.

sorry, I just wanted to rant.[/B]

Bite your tongue, woman! Eating out of dumpsters! HA! Not our babies!

Seriously, I don't believe anyone on here is eating leftovers or frozen dinners because that's all they have in their budget after feeding their "well-loved" furbabies. lol I think it's more, "I'll cook & feed the fluffbutt the right foods, but leftovers is fine for me."

[myfairlacy]

QUOTE (Smithville55 @ Jun 14 2009, 05:30 PM)

I don't want to offend anybody, but cooking meals and letting yourself have to eat frozen or leftover food, just so your dog can eat a good meal is crazy. I can understand paying a little more for healthy dog food, but home cooked meals? Come on, They're dogs! They don't know what you're doing. They've spent years eating out of dumpsters throughout history, why do people think they need home cooked meals? Especially if it is stretching your budget and you have to eat frozen food or leftovers. Seriously. I know you love your dogs, but they're dogs. I'm sure they don't care what they eat. They drink from a toilet for crying out loud.

sorry, I just wanted to rant.[/B]

Do you not realize that most of the "dog food" on the market today is absolute crap? There are some good commercial options but even then you have to be concerned with recalls. Do you not remember all the dogs that died and got sick after the huge melamine contamination?? It is much safer and healthier to make a dog's meals yourself as long as you supplement to make sure they are getting all nutrients needed.

I don't believe those of us that posted in this thread can't afford to cook meals for ourself because we homecook for our dogs. I can afford to cook for myself...I just don't like spending time to do it and usually enjoy take out or junk food to eat, even though I know it's not the healthiest option. However, my dogs don't have a choice..they rely on me for their food so I give them the healthiest and tastiest food I can. I only homecook about every 12 days so it doesn't really take that much of my time. Our dogs have a much shorter lifespan than us and I hope to lengthen it as much as possible with a healthy diet.

If you choose to let your dog eat out of the dumpster and drink out of the toilet, don't be surprised if it comes down with a bacterial infection, gets a blockage, bloats, or develops pancreatis or dies from eating something toxic...

[Nikki's Mom]

I choose to home cook for Nikki because I know exactly what she is getting in her food. I can easily afford to cook myself a lovely dinner every night. However after I cook a week's worth of Nikki's food, sometimes I'm too lazy to cook for myself! I love to cook and we eat very well around here. Sometimes, too well, lol.

Nikki is not "spoiled" because she doesn't know the difference between home cooking and commercial food. She'd eat any old crap food if I fed it to her, she's not picky. However her liver is damaged, so I'd much rather home cook for her. I don't trust most commercial dog food.

Everyone makes their own choices on what to feed their dog. We all have our reasons for what and how we feed our dogs. It has nothing to do with going overboard and pampering, rather it's hoping to ensure good health so that our dogs don't have to suffer.

[dwerten]

check out the book foods pet's die for this will be pretty enlightening for you

QUOTE (Smithville55 @ Jun 14 2009, 06:30 PM)

I don't want to offend anybody, but cooking meals and letting yourself have to eat frozen or leftover food, just so your dog can eat a good meal is crazy. I can understand paying a little more for healthy dog food, but home cooked meals? Come on, They're dogs! They don't know what you're doing. They've spent years eating out of dumpsters throughout history, why do people think they need home cooked meals? Especially if it is stretching your budget and you have to eat frozen food or leftovers. Seriously. I know you love your dogs, but they're dogs. I'm sure they don't care what they eat. They drink from a toilet for crying out loud.

sorry, I just wanted to rant.[/B]