Homemade Dog Food
Feed Your Dog BARF
Kimberly Todd-St. Claire shares her recipe for a healthy homemade dog food in The Guide to Health and Healing, 2008-2009 issue (www.theguidetohealthandhealing.com). She indicates in the article that she has seen changes in the reduction of allergies, improved skin tone, a shinier coat, more appealing breath, reduction in weight and overall enhanced behavior. She goes on to share that every dog is different, and to allow your dogs a 3 week window for adjustment if you decide to switch to her homemade recipe. The article outlines that the caloric intake for a 10 pound dog is 410 calories and an 80 pound dog is upwards of 1800 calories. If you have any concerns or questions, please don’t hesitate to consult your veterinarian. Here’s her recipe:
BARF (Bones and Raw Food)
2 lbs. raw ground turkey
8 C raw rolled oats
¼ C broccolis
2 cloves minced garlic
¼ C oil (vegetable, flax, olive or sunflower)
6,000 milligrams calcium powder
400 units Vitamin E
Serve 5 cups-one time a day for a 60 pound dog (adjust as appropriate for your dog’s weight). You can separate portions into freezer zip lock bags and then just pull out the next day’s bag to defrost.
Kimberly Todd-St. Claire shares her recipe for a healthy homemade dog food in The Guide to Health and Healing, 2008-2009 issue (www.theguidetohealthandhealing.com). She indicates in the article that she has seen changes in the reduction of allergies, improved skin tone, a shinier coat, more appealing breath, reduction in weight and overall enhanced behavior. She goes on to share that every dog is different, and to allow your dogs a 3 week window for adjustment if you decide to switch to her homemade recipe. The article outlines that the caloric intake for a 10 pound dog is 410 calories and an 80 pound dog is upwards of 1800 calories. If you have any concerns or questions, please don’t hesitate to consult your veterinarian. Here’s her recipe:
BARF (Bones and Raw Food)
2 lbs. raw ground turkey
8 C raw rolled oats
¼ C broccolis
2 cloves minced garlic
¼ C oil (vegetable, flax, olive or sunflower)
6,000 milligrams calcium powder
400 units Vitamin E
Serve 5 cups-one time a day for a 60 pound dog (adjust as appropriate for your dog’s weight). You can separate portions into freezer zip lock bags and then just pull out the next day’s bag to defrost.
A Doggie Author Chat with Kori Bowers of Ease Into Green
Kori: Please share what your book Doggone Green is about.
Cedar Dog: First off, thanks Kori for the opportunity to talk about my book. It seems to me you are a Doggone Green Crusader and doing doggone good work.
I am passionate about caring for our earth. I would like all of us to become better stewards of the earth and its creatures. The earth’s health and my own are interconnected.
If pets are prepared with information, they can nudge their parents to go green. I have Doggone Green Actions in every chapter that are fun and easy. That’s why I wrote this book. I want to show pets ‘n their people how simple it is to go Doggone Green
Kori: What inspired you to write Doggone Green?
Cedar Dog: Mom reads to me. Awhile back, we read and watched Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth & then read Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals and the Call to Mercy by Matt Scully.
In my book, we bark out about Dominion a powerful book on the suffering of animals at the hands of humans. It prompted Mom and I to ask, how is it that people can treat animals so cruelly; i.e. the abuse and neglect at puppy mills and dog-fighting operations. Think about how many 2-leggeds “practice” his or her crime on an animal before doing the same thing to another person. We talk about The Link® between domestic violence that the American Humane Association addresses.
Factory farming is another example of how some animals are treated worse than others. Scully says, “pigs and cows should be able to walk and turn around, fowl to move about and spread their wings, and all creatures to know the feel of soil and grass and the warmth of the sun. Then there will be no need for labels saying “free-range” or “humanely raised.” They will all be raised that way. They all get to be treated like animals and not as unfeeling machines.”
In my chapter, Haunted by Homelessness, I bark out about homelessness and pet overpopulation. Something as simple as spay or neuter of all adopted companion animals before they leave a shelter is a beginning. I was a rescue dog, so the subject is close to my heart.
Today, many animals are losing their homes because their humans’ life has changed. As foreclosure rates climb so have shelter populations, many are struggling to keep up with caring for the extra animals, especially cats.
This quote from Scully blew me away.
“There are hunters who claim their sport helps control animal populations and who support popular and ‘scientifically’ proven notions that animals do not feel pain, do not experience emotions and are not conscious of our own lives.” There will always be enough injustice and human suffering in the world to make the wrongs done to animals seem small and secondary. A wrong is a wrong and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to others and us. I believe this is happening in our treatment of the animals.”
In Al Gore’s book, An Inconvenient Truth we learned it’s the simple things we do that will make a huge difference for the earth.
Around that same time our city of Wheat Ridge, Colorado was talking to its citizens (including the dogs) about storm water runoff; water that picks up “everything” (ug) in its pathway as it flows “untreated” into our rivers and streams.
Mom and I visited city hall and spoke with the engineer in charge of their storm water project. It was then; that I got that dog poop was an eco-concern. Many two-leggeds believe dog poop is fertilizer and more often than not is the reason 40% of pet parents do not pick up after their dog in public. Makes you wonder what their backyards look like.
My book was born that day and I knew I had another job. I already was doing pet therapy for the elderly; I asked Mom what I could to prevent homelessness, overpopulation and to speak up and serve in ways that improve our lives and save the earth. The book expanded from there. Now, we do book signings at shelters, rescue facilities, and give a portion of the proceeds to their work.
Kori: Tell us a little about yourself.
Cedar Dog: I am a 10-year old Chesapeake Bay Retriever, curly-haired and beautiful of course. Pet therapy is one of my true joys. Weekly, I spend time with the elderly, making them smile and giving love. I have a full chapter on this in my book. I love being a doggie author and stirring pets ‘n their people to action.
I was a rescue dog, which I talk about in the book. My life has not always been this good. I love my life today, my jobs and my “home pack.” We have a great time.
Kori: Why did you choose to write it in the voice of a dog?
Cedar Dog: I am an unusual dog. I have my own mind about things and a lot to say. I believe a dog best presents my message. I asked Mom to transcribe my thoughts. We make a great team. She knows how to be silent and listen to me.
Kori: What age group is your book geared toward?
Cedar Dog: My book is for kids of all ages. You will want to color-in the scores of illustrations of me on the job.
Kori: What is the best piece of advice you would give to our younger generation?
Cedar Dogs: Listen more to the animals, our wisdom is amazing.
I want more pets ‘n their people to become Doggone Green Crusaders. My doggie wisdom tells me that what we desire and do for ourselves must not harm or take away from anyone else or the planet.
Practice unconditional love. Take a queue from us; if people would give to others a tiny portion of the love, we give you every day our planet would be a very different place
Kori: What impact do you hope your book makes?
Cedar Dog: To take action is a choice. When pets ‘n their people tell us they’ve changed to a safer cat litter or a high quality pet food, that is huge.
When people pick up dog poop because they know it pollutes the waterways and that dog poop is not fertilizer; when they flush it or throw it away in bio-degradable or compost able poop bags. Of course, you will make the storm water people happy if your two-leggeds just pick up the poop with one of those handy plastic grocery or newspaper bags. If you are a Doggone Green Crusader or wanna be, explain to your humans they need to phase out those plastic bags as they create another problem, they last forever in the landfills. There are other options but you’ll need to read my book to see what else you can do.
Maybe they’ve switched to a stainless steel food and water bowl vs. the old plastic one that hold all kinds of bacteria. There are also safe ceramic options.
When pets and kids have safe toys, no more of the cheap, ugly painted birthday cake-plastics; those changes make me roll-over and smile.
When our people decide it is healthier to buy non-toxic grooming products for themselves and their pets.
These are just a few examples of huge changes for pets ‘n their people that will make a difference for the planet.
Kori: If you had one message to share with all of your readers, what would that be?
Cedar Dog: Do something to help the earth and begin today, reduce, recycle, reuse. If you can’t change out all of the unsafe products in your household at once, switch to a safer product each month. Join me as a Doggone Green Crusader. Then broadcast to every pack you know to do what you have done. Sustainability is thought and action, something I’d like the two-leggeds to value so together we can help save the earth. Oh, and while your at it, have a Howlin’ Good Time!
Kori: Where can someone purchase your book?
Cedar Dog: At my website, the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, The Eli Ashby Healing Arts Center in Arvada, Cosmo’s Pet Bark’ery in Lakewood or Zen Dog in Denver. Additional outlets will be announced shortly.
On August 24, I will be at the Green Frontier Fest in downtown Denver.
We are the Green Print Denver kick-off event for the Democratic National Convention. Come by, introduce yourself, and sign up as a Doggone Green Crusader. Our goal is at least one crusader per state. Stay connected to my Doggone Green Blog
Email me at cedar@petsgonegreen.com
Web site www.petsgonegreen.com
Doggone Green: A Call to Action to Save Our EarthBy Cedar
Transcribed by Kathy Deitsch, 188 pages
© Copyright, Doggone Green 2008
Cedar Dog: First off, thanks Kori for the opportunity to talk about my book. It seems to me you are a Doggone Green Crusader and doing doggone good work.
I am passionate about caring for our earth. I would like all of us to become better stewards of the earth and its creatures. The earth’s health and my own are interconnected.
If pets are prepared with information, they can nudge their parents to go green. I have Doggone Green Actions in every chapter that are fun and easy. That’s why I wrote this book. I want to show pets ‘n their people how simple it is to go Doggone Green
Kori: What inspired you to write Doggone Green?
Cedar Dog: Mom reads to me. Awhile back, we read and watched Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth & then read Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals and the Call to Mercy by Matt Scully.
In my book, we bark out about Dominion a powerful book on the suffering of animals at the hands of humans. It prompted Mom and I to ask, how is it that people can treat animals so cruelly; i.e. the abuse and neglect at puppy mills and dog-fighting operations. Think about how many 2-leggeds “practice” his or her crime on an animal before doing the same thing to another person. We talk about The Link® between domestic violence that the American Humane Association addresses.
Factory farming is another example of how some animals are treated worse than others. Scully says, “pigs and cows should be able to walk and turn around, fowl to move about and spread their wings, and all creatures to know the feel of soil and grass and the warmth of the sun. Then there will be no need for labels saying “free-range” or “humanely raised.” They will all be raised that way. They all get to be treated like animals and not as unfeeling machines.”
In my chapter, Haunted by Homelessness, I bark out about homelessness and pet overpopulation. Something as simple as spay or neuter of all adopted companion animals before they leave a shelter is a beginning. I was a rescue dog, so the subject is close to my heart.
Today, many animals are losing their homes because their humans’ life has changed. As foreclosure rates climb so have shelter populations, many are struggling to keep up with caring for the extra animals, especially cats.
This quote from Scully blew me away.
“There are hunters who claim their sport helps control animal populations and who support popular and ‘scientifically’ proven notions that animals do not feel pain, do not experience emotions and are not conscious of our own lives.” There will always be enough injustice and human suffering in the world to make the wrongs done to animals seem small and secondary. A wrong is a wrong and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to others and us. I believe this is happening in our treatment of the animals.”
In Al Gore’s book, An Inconvenient Truth we learned it’s the simple things we do that will make a huge difference for the earth.
Around that same time our city of Wheat Ridge, Colorado was talking to its citizens (including the dogs) about storm water runoff; water that picks up “everything” (ug) in its pathway as it flows “untreated” into our rivers and streams.
Mom and I visited city hall and spoke with the engineer in charge of their storm water project. It was then; that I got that dog poop was an eco-concern. Many two-leggeds believe dog poop is fertilizer and more often than not is the reason 40% of pet parents do not pick up after their dog in public. Makes you wonder what their backyards look like.
My book was born that day and I knew I had another job. I already was doing pet therapy for the elderly; I asked Mom what I could to prevent homelessness, overpopulation and to speak up and serve in ways that improve our lives and save the earth. The book expanded from there. Now, we do book signings at shelters, rescue facilities, and give a portion of the proceeds to their work.
Kori: Tell us a little about yourself.
Cedar Dog: I am a 10-year old Chesapeake Bay Retriever, curly-haired and beautiful of course. Pet therapy is one of my true joys. Weekly, I spend time with the elderly, making them smile and giving love. I have a full chapter on this in my book. I love being a doggie author and stirring pets ‘n their people to action.
I was a rescue dog, which I talk about in the book. My life has not always been this good. I love my life today, my jobs and my “home pack.” We have a great time.
Kori: Why did you choose to write it in the voice of a dog?
Cedar Dog: I am an unusual dog. I have my own mind about things and a lot to say. I believe a dog best presents my message. I asked Mom to transcribe my thoughts. We make a great team. She knows how to be silent and listen to me.
Kori: What age group is your book geared toward?
Cedar Dog: My book is for kids of all ages. You will want to color-in the scores of illustrations of me on the job.
Kori: What is the best piece of advice you would give to our younger generation?
Cedar Dogs: Listen more to the animals, our wisdom is amazing.
I want more pets ‘n their people to become Doggone Green Crusaders. My doggie wisdom tells me that what we desire and do for ourselves must not harm or take away from anyone else or the planet.
Practice unconditional love. Take a queue from us; if people would give to others a tiny portion of the love, we give you every day our planet would be a very different place
Kori: What impact do you hope your book makes?
Cedar Dog: To take action is a choice. When pets ‘n their people tell us they’ve changed to a safer cat litter or a high quality pet food, that is huge.
When people pick up dog poop because they know it pollutes the waterways and that dog poop is not fertilizer; when they flush it or throw it away in bio-degradable or compost able poop bags. Of course, you will make the storm water people happy if your two-leggeds just pick up the poop with one of those handy plastic grocery or newspaper bags. If you are a Doggone Green Crusader or wanna be, explain to your humans they need to phase out those plastic bags as they create another problem, they last forever in the landfills. There are other options but you’ll need to read my book to see what else you can do.
Maybe they’ve switched to a stainless steel food and water bowl vs. the old plastic one that hold all kinds of bacteria. There are also safe ceramic options.
When pets and kids have safe toys, no more of the cheap, ugly painted birthday cake-plastics; those changes make me roll-over and smile.
When our people decide it is healthier to buy non-toxic grooming products for themselves and their pets.
These are just a few examples of huge changes for pets ‘n their people that will make a difference for the planet.
Kori: If you had one message to share with all of your readers, what would that be?
Cedar Dog: Do something to help the earth and begin today, reduce, recycle, reuse. If you can’t change out all of the unsafe products in your household at once, switch to a safer product each month. Join me as a Doggone Green Crusader. Then broadcast to every pack you know to do what you have done. Sustainability is thought and action, something I’d like the two-leggeds to value so together we can help save the earth. Oh, and while your at it, have a Howlin’ Good Time!
Kori: Where can someone purchase your book?
Cedar Dog: At my website, the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, The Eli Ashby Healing Arts Center in Arvada, Cosmo’s Pet Bark’ery in Lakewood or Zen Dog in Denver. Additional outlets will be announced shortly.
On August 24, I will be at the Green Frontier Fest in downtown Denver.
We are the Green Print Denver kick-off event for the Democratic National Convention. Come by, introduce yourself, and sign up as a Doggone Green Crusader. Our goal is at least one crusader per state. Stay connected to my Doggone Green Blog
Email me at cedar@petsgonegreen.com
Web site www.petsgonegreen.com
Doggone Green: A Call to Action to Save Our EarthBy Cedar
Transcribed by Kathy Deitsch, 188 pages
© Copyright, Doggone Green 2008
