Cooking for your Pets
Pet-owners willing to invest time and resources into understanding how to prepare complete and balanced home made meals for their pets may improve an animal’s general health and can even reap some potential cost-savings.
When preparing meals for your pet at home, it is important to understand the types and quantities of nutrients your pet requires. The nutritional requirements of dogs and cats are somewhat complex and require nutrients to be in proper balance with the energy density of the food and with each other, according to petDIETS.com.
Most dogs require a diet that includes 38 daily nutrients, while cats require a diet containing 40 daily nutrients. Pet foods are usually designed to appeal to vast quantities of pet pallets to ensure pet-owners repeatedly purchase the product. When cooking at home it is not important what the source of the nutrients is—beef, chicken, etc.—as long as it meets your pet’s nutrient profi le. The focus for preparing homemade meals or feeding your pet should be on giving them complete and balanced meals, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done with foods they enjoy that taste great.
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