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This is our household favorite and is best with Danish Creamery butter. Can be cooked in large batches on the stove or in a single serving in the microwave.

Ingredients:

• 1 banana
• Uncooked oats—enough for one dog
• Water
• 1 egg
• A little bit of butter (not margarine)

Pour uncooked oats into a bowl. Add in peeled banana and water. Microwave 1 minute. Remain by microwave to make sure oatmeal does not bubble over. Stir and microwave another 1 minute. Add in 1 egg and about a teaspoon of butter. Beat egg evenly into oatmeal and microwave another 1-2 minutes or until egg is fully cooked. Add butter, mash bananas, cool and stir before serving.

Variations: Frozen blueberries may be mixed in to cool oatmeal faster. Pop the berries with a fork to make sure your dog gets the nutrition. Peanut butter also goes nicely in oatmeal.

Tags: dog food recipe, Pet Care Articles, pet food, Recipes

As home cooking for pets is increasing in popularity, we would like to share with you some basic information, tips, and a few recipes from our own pets’ diet.

Why Home Cooking

For many years pet owners have been advised that eating human food will upset a dog or cat’s stomach and that commercial foods are the surest way to a balanced diet. In recent years it has come to light through many books, publications, and epidemic poisoning cause by dog and cat food that commercial pets foods are actually terrible for the health of your pet. A few of the reasons are that these products are manufactured with ingredients that were deemed unfit for human consumption or cheap products such as cornmeal to which dogs and cats are actually allergic. Then the manufacturers add food coloring, salt, and unsafe chemicals to make the food look healthy and tasty. Dr. Martin Goldstein DVM even states in his book The Nature of Animal Healing that euthanized pets (collars, tags and all) and road-killed animals are sold to rendering plants as meat for pet foods.

Avoiding unnecessary ingestion of chemicals will reduce your pet’s risk of cancer, kidney disease and many other illnesses. When you say goodbye to commercial pet foods, you will at the same time say goodbye to doggy and kitty diarrhea. We also find that odor of dog poo is less offensive when our dogs eat fresh foods. [Read more →]

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We are often horrified by the vast amount of misinformation concerning toxic foods passed around on internet pet website forums. For instance, we once read a post by a cat owner telling everyone that she fed her cat grapes all the time, when in fact grapes can be fatal to pets, causing acute kidney failure. We’ve seen many similar posts where pet owners tell others that their pet just loves a certain type of fruit or vegetable and that it is absolutely safe for other owners to feed it to their pets.

So here we have compiled a basic list of common foods that are toxic to house pets. Some of these foods may jsut make them ill while others are very poisonous and are downright fatal. Please note that this is not a complete list but just some of the more common items; just because something is not on this list does not mean it is not dangerous to your pet. We recommend visiting the ASPCA Poison Control Center and veterinary websites for more information. We have found that different sites offer different information, and below are the most common items found.

Tip: While many foods are not dangerous, it is a good idea to avoid feeding large amounts of any one food item.

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