Things You'll Need
- 1/4 lb. ground beef or other meat
- 2 cups cooked rice or rice baby cereal
- Meat-flavored broth
- 2 tsp. cooking oil (vegetable, corn, or flaxseed)
- 2 tsp. all bran cereal
- 2 g calcium carbonate (Tums)
- 2 tsp. dicalcium phosphate (bone meal)
Instructions
Fry 1/4 lb. of lean ground beef, ground round or turkey, until browned; do not drain the fat. Substitute any cut of beef or poultry, if desired, and bake or boil until done. Slice meat into small chunks if you use whole meat cuts.
Prepare 2 cups of cooked rice, boiling in meat-flavored broth if desired, or 2 cups of rice baby cereal. Substitute canned broth for water when cooking rice, or add the fat off the meat you cooked. Do not add any salt; excess sodium (salt) is hard on a dog with heart disease.
Mix the cooked rice with the cooked meat. Add a small amount of oil -- 1 to 2 tsp. depending on the fat content of the meat cooked. While fat is good in your dog's diet, excess fat is not, so use a moderate amount.
Cool the meat, rice and oil mixture. Measure 2 or 3 tsp. of all bran cereal and stir into mixture if desired.
Crush 2 g of calcium carbonate (Tums) and add to the cooled rice/meat mixture you prepared. Add 2 tsp. of dicalcium phosphate (available at a health food store, or use bone meal) and mix well.
Cover and refrigerate homemade dog food, either in one container or in serving-size portions. Heat until warm to serve, and supplement diet with an adult, human vitamin daily.