Why Balancing Your Pet's Homemade Meals Is Important 

I am one of those people who believes that every single meal does not have to be balanced. However, the diet needs to at least be balanced over a week. So, I watch all the videos on this channel so that my dogs are getting everything they need. This is the best raw feeding channel-- Very well researched information; Great graphics; Artistic camera work; Well written and articulated narration.

The quality is why i love this videos!

I love your videos so much! As a vegetarian, preparing meals for my cat is absolutely repulsive to me, but knowing it’s what’s actually best for him and his health helps me feel better about the process

ok i DEVOUR your videos so pleaseeee do not make them shorter! i know you had said you felt like this was a bad thing but i love how informative you are without muddying things up. i am deeply afraid of feeding an unbalanced diet even though i am super careful about tracking nutrients and adjusting when necessary but watching this video seriously put my mind at ease knowing i feed many of these whole foods daily or every other day. thank you so much for all you do!!

In short, just do your best, I bet most of us don't even eat a balanced diet.

The reason why I love her videos is because they’re so simple to understand and visually stimulating. Was wondering if the supplements you used are for human use? We do have multivitamins for pets available here but I’m not sure if they’re as good as those from the food sources you mentioned as we all know some of those are synthetic vitamins. Anyway keep these videos coming! Still waiting for a video on feeding raw to puppies ❤️

Great video! I wish more people can see this cuz I’ve seen many people on RU-vid just give their dogs a chicken leg quarter, an egg and a few baby carrots and it makes me sad that some dogs eat an unbalanced diet for a long period of time as it will cause many deficiencies

Love how well your videos flow! Thanks for the info.

Your videos are awesome!!! I always enjoy watching them and learning all about feeding raw food to pets, and your voice is just so calming.

I'm hooked on your videos! Your voice is so relaxing, your respectful and fact base. We just got our golden puppy and you've definitely help me ensure my pup has a balanced diet.

i love your videos so much, i am finally providing my dog with what *i think* is a balanced diet and learning so much more about it. great video!

Your informative videos are just perfect for me to share with people for education! I love them so much! I hobby breed Great Pyrenees/Pyrenean Mountian dogs and plan to open my own kennel, sharing info to new owners about feeding the puppies is entailed in the work. Learning about cooked and raw diets from videos like these are excellent! Thanks 😊

You have a good voice for this! Ty for the info

Wow!! This video is very informative! Thank you so much! I am so happy to have discovered your channel! I have been feeding my dog raw for 4 years (while working with a wonderful company called Soul'y Raw), but I have been wanting to learn how to make my dog's raw meals myself for quite some time...and I have a feeling that your videos will help put me on the right track towards achieving that goal! 😊

Thank you for your videos! I currently make a Turkey and veggies food topper for my dogs but still give them their kibble! Thank you for the extra info!

Great videos. So helpful and informative

Dropping gems.

You should make a video on everything we NEED to give to balance our pets diet!

I love your videos, they are so informative!

I love love love your videos they're so informative and I learn so much through them. I feed my dog home cooked meals, can you please do more videos about home cooked meals for dog. I've watched a ton of other videos and read a lot on the internet. But there are only a few that mention supplements and I want to learn more about supplements so that my dog will have a good balanced diet❤💪🏻.

Your channel has been so helpful!! If you made a "recipe" book for raw feeding cats and dogs I would 100% buy it 😝

I love your videos and have been watching them, many repeatedly while taking notes (nerd!). I haven't yet found one that discusses how much of the suggested special foods to add to correct the nutrient gaps, for example, how much oyster for zinc, or sunflower seeds for Vitamin E? I understand calculating daily total of food, (however the percent body weight estimate was vastly different than the calorie calculation for me - not sure which to trust), and the 80/10/5/5 ratio, but how much kelp, etc.? Thank you!

Love your videos! Saved!

We've gotten a senior cat off of kibble entirely, on to wet canned food, with gradually better ingredients, now no corn, soy, wheat, potato, or any kind of pea or bean. Caveat, I'm not put off by meat by-products as some people are. I'd rather have some meat by-products than ANY kind of pea. We are now transitioning to a raw food diet, and it is still slow going. Let's just say, she is NOT curious about new....anything. I'm more dedicated to this than is my husband, so the days I work, he feeds the canned diet. On my days off, I introduce the raw. Just trying to get her to consider the new foods, don't really worry TOO much about balancing everything yet, But I love videos like this to show me what to introduce to her on "my" days, so that when this is a bigger issue for us, it won't feel like trying to invent the wheel over again. Long intro, just to say, thank you so much for your info and all you do.

your videos are honestly amazing! I'll (hopefully ^^;) be getting a gsd puppy in a few months! I'm super excited! and your videos are soooo helpful! they've taught me pretty much everything I know, so keep up the amazing videos! ty!

I've been adding probiotics these past few weeks and I'm seeing a difference in one of my cats. So far she is throwing up less hairballs. Not saying she is never going to throw up hairballs again but at least it is making a difference. She also has CKD soooo

Thanks 👍

You know, this whole prey model can be applied to herbivorous animals too, just call it a whole plant or complete forage model instead. Using every kind of part from a plant that the animal in question would eat in the wild. That being said. Do parrots eat mature plant roots in the wild?

I love the time and effort you put into this video. Do you know any supplements that help with gastrointestinal for cats?

These videos are so good

How do you determine the dosage for supplements? I am awaiting our Cane Corso puppy to be old enough to bring home at about 8-9 weeks old and plan on feeding raw. I am having a hard time understanding what dosage I should be feeding for supplements.

I agree, I think your channel is the best one on raw feeding. What do you think about mixed supplements? My problem is that my rescue cat does not eat much, not the canned nor the dry nor the cooked or raw. He eats very little and so I want to add Alnutrin or Nutra Thrive (both are a mix of supplements in powdered form) to the food I am giving while I transition him to a variety of foods, including bone. He is a happy guy but seems picky about all of his food and seems to eat just enough. Is there a brand you recommend instead of us buying all of these supplements individually?

I would be interested to learn how I can calculate the individual nutrient requirements for my cat. For example Zinc. I looked into the table of the FEDIAF but I did not understand how I can use this information to adjust it to my cats weight and individual health requirements. (he is diabetic and suffering from chronic pancreatitis). I dont want to use online calculators because they only give values for a heathy animal and I cant know if they are accurate. Hope you could make a video on how to calculate each nutrient requirement on the individual needs of a pet using the FEDIAF table or the NRC.

Pink salt has all the minerals mentioned (zinc, manganese, calcium & iodine) in trace amounts. (Also, Vitamins A, D & E are found together in eggs or liver). Figured those were some cheap alternative to buying supplements or seafood. I could be wrong but I don’t recall wolves or big cats eating oysters and mussels in the wild. Love the video! I will definitely use all the tips mentioned!

Do you have a recipe for a balanced homemade cooked dog food diet?

Some raw fish like herring contain thiaminase. Thiaminase prevents absorption of thiamine. I don’t feed raw thiaminase fish very often and make sure it is fed apart from their meals. If the fish is cooked, thiaminase is destroyed (eg canned sardines).

Do you feed these foods like oysters and tripe or go fro the supplements with your pets? Would you say one is better then the other or if going for the natural supply not worth it?

We use eggshell powder in our pet's meals to give them a little boost of calcium in their diet. It's so quick and easy to make while putting those empty eggshells to good use instead of throwing them away 🙌

Hi! Just watched your food prepping videos and I have a question about those. How do you manage all those huge containers and bags when they seem completely unfrozen in your videos? Do you just film when you have unfrozen meat available and then freeze the huge containers and afterwards take the meat small bit by bit and thaw just those bits instead the whole huge container to avoid re-freezing? I hope I'm making sense. Just wondering how you manage to make it work without re-freezing. :D

so.. if cod liver oil can be used to supplement vitamins a and d. if the diet has one of the vitamins met, would it be fine still to use cod liver oil to supplement the other? and then if you need to supplement both would you use twice as much? to take place of both vitamins?

I can't even afford supplements that showed in the video for myself lol. My dog used to be street dog and all of the street dog live here, they feed with leftover foods people left for them and some raw or kibble that people give them. I think he will be fine just on raw diet.

Hi I love your channel! I have a question. I've been cooking my dog homemade food for 4 weeks now. Is it ok to give her raw-meaty bone as afternoon snack to meet the calcium intake? Instead of adding calcium powder/ eggshell powder. Thank you.

For bone meal, would u do percentage or would u measure based on the number of mg they need per day? Because my dog needs 500 mg calcium and 250 mg phosphorus. For my brand bone meal that would be 1 teaspoon a day but 10% bone in my dogs meal would be 3.5 tsp bone meal... what do I do? Sry it sounds so complicated lol

Question: How does one know what the daily recommended intake is for a dog or a certain size? Like where can I find information on how much of different vitamins and minerals my 66 lbs Gordon Setter needs per day? Thanks!

hi how much kelp powder and vitamin e oil do i need for my cat? she's an american curl at 3.3kg and i read that oysters are toxic for them so i'm not sure if are there other zinc options?

im probably missing most of these lol but good info thou

i give my kitten fancy feast and grain free meow mix. twice a month i get him the fresh pet food from target. he’s super playful and is getting pretty muscular. 🙈

So what are the percentages for each vitamin/mineral you need to add?

I need your help please!! How do I figure out the dosage for my 6 lb poodle on the supplements? How would I know how much green mussels or mackerel to give her?

What is a natural whole food source of vit e for dogs that is animal based?

can i use fresh wheat grass? i chop it into my dog's food and he eats it. so powedered or pureed isn't a requirement right

Is there a good multi vitamin that I could feed my 8 week old golden retriever? (Just in case she isn’t getting enough balanced nutrients from her diet).

Just wondering, is premade frozen raw diet balanced? Or should something be added?

All of this is so painfully pricey I'm honestly lost at this point.

Do you have a video about weaning puppies to raw? Iv a litter of 5 needing weaned in the next 2 weeks.

Be careful of kelp if dog breed is prone to hypothyroidism. Per Jean Dodds too much iodine can contribute to hypothyroidism.

What app do you use to make your videos?

can I supplement manganese with green lipped mussel powder?

I love your channel so much and this is a great video! But do you happen to know how wild dogs/wolves reach their Iodine requirements? I tried searching but fell short.

Great video! One question though - I've never heard that beef/lamb liver should only be fed at 3%. I thought the BARF diet ratios suggest 5% liver and 5% other secreting organ. So I feed 5% beef liver because that is the easiest liver to come by, and occasionally feed chicken liver. Should I reduce to 3% when feeding beef liver? Should that missing 2% be muscle meat? Or should I just aim to feed half beef liver and half chicken liver? Thanks!

Can i give all those vitamins if my dog is a senior?

Hi! I have a question if you don't mind, but did you feed matsu the same diet he eats today? if not what were the things you excluded or added? please answer if you can and ty! love ur videos

what we really need is an auto-calculator, much like the various calorie counters/nutrient counters that we have for humans. input your meals for the dogs/cats and see what's missing, like that one old Becker video where they throw a bunch of stuff together.

I see lots of info that says seeds/almonds are hard for dogs to digest and that they probably shouldn’t eat them so I’m a little confused on some of your recommendations

Is there a test to know what vit and minérals could be missing ?

I am confused I’m hoping you can explain :’) but I thought almonds are bad for dogs or just nuts in general?

how much wheatgrass should i give to my dogs? as i actually grow my own and want to use it but im afraid if i give too much

In regards to vitamin D, can it only be those fish that we feed to our pets to ensure they get it? Sardines has been my go to. I know you made a video on it where you talk about all the different fish we can feed. Just wondering about sardines offering vitamin D?

I’m confused, the Zinc supplement shown comes with the warning “not intended for long term use”.

my cat won't eat oysters or mussels! are my only options synthetic supplements :(

But what is the AFCO diet based off of? How have they come up with it? Is it just based on a human diet? How do we know what dogs need?

where can i find the daily or weekly requirements for dogs?

It'd be helpful if there were accurate numbers on how much to give, especially for the supplements made for humans.

Mam is raw meat is safe for dogs means it contains bacteria and mam we have give organ meat cooked or raw???

I am 6 months into the raw diet and am very satisfied with the results. But i have a question, when the dog eats a brain, duck head etc... if it has prions will it end up bad for the dog??

What about omega 3?

I have a question I just got chicken necks is it ok to give the whole chicken neck to 1 kitty or should I spilt it between my 2 kittens

I just added fermented grass powder, to my cat's whole prey grind, today. As prey animal "stomach contents." Will that not be, of any benefit?

Now I understand why vets insist puppies should be fed good quality kibbles 😅

I thought green lipped mussels also contain manganese, as well as raw green tripe.

Hey! My dog won’t eat anything other than muscle meat or chicken feet. I give her liver, kidney and sardines too. She’s really picky. Anything I can do to encourage her to eat the rest?

How much calcium carbonate should I add to my dogs diet? He can’t chew raw meaty bones?

Hi, how do I know how much vitamin D to give me cat, if i am already planning on feeding her liver how do i add the remaining amount without giving her too much vitamin D? I’m so scared i don’t want to malnourish my cat

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I'm surprised you didn't mention blood as a source for manganese and zinc ect. People forget how important is it to feed fresh bloody pieces because they're super rich in minerals and fatty acids

Can we give all supplements together ?

How do wild dogs get zinc?

If I only feed 3% of liver, does that mean I’ll have to feed 7% other secreting organ?

I understand that feeding fish oil can deplete vitamin E. Is this correct? Many people feed fish oil so this would be good to know.

I wanted to ask why you feed your cat goats yoghurt?

i can't get my dog to eat oysters. Can oysters i found said its from China im not giving that

Don’t sardines have vitamin D?

Is anyone else stressed out and is scared if they will ever be able to feed their pet a balanced diet?

What about feeding blood? I feel like a lot of this is in blood...?

Love the videos! Why is “biologically appropriate” better?

Yes whole prey is balanced BUT, Each member of the pack dod not get to eat Each secreting organ and bone to meet the r Recommend daily nutrient allowance

Come on guys, easier than this can't be. Stop feeding garbage kibble, you can find all these foods at the grocery store. Watch some videos, read 1 or 2 books and take responsibility for your pets health, kibble will never provide the nourishment real food can. Love your fucking dogs all the way.

Whole lotta ‘could be’ and not ANY sources to back up the information you’re spreading