A Dog's Dinner What goes to make a dog's dinner? The phrase implies a mess, but most dogs' dinners nowadays look quite appetizing - a bowl of nice-smelling biscuits or half a tin of something that looks like cold meat pie filling. It all appears very nice to us humans. And that is the whole point - dog food is sold to humans on its looks and aroma. We don't actually know what the dog thinks of it. We just know that they wolf it down, but then so might you if you were hungry and you knew that the likelihood was that that was all you would be given. The truth is that a dog will eat almost anything if there is sufficient sugar or and salt in it. I had a collie-cross that would eat anything I offered her except Brussels sprouts (she would take them politely and throw them around, but she would not eat them). It stands to reason that you cannot get a can of good pie filling for a dollar, so whatever is in there cannot be best beef. Yet it has to be fit for human consumption, so what is it? Well, to begin with, the gravy is probably manufactured of carcass scrapings and blood, thickened with flour. That would make it quite nourishing, but not as appetizing as it looks. The 'lumps of meat' are almost certainly not meat. They are most probably offal and soy or something comparable. Again, not a bad thing, but not what it is meant to look like to us and the dog will absolutely know that it is not meat. So what ought to constitute a dog's dinner? In the wild, a pack of wolves would bring down, perhaps, a deer and rip its stomach open. The contents thereof are the first course. Since wolves by and large kill vegetarian animals, the stomach contents will normally be grass, leaves and other plants. Then they will move on to the internal organs like heart and liver. The stomach and organs are the best bits and only the top dogs get them. When they are gone, they rip the carcass apart and devour the meat. Later they chew on the bones. Those are the guidelines for concocting a dog's dinner. if you cook your own dinner, cook a bit extra for the dog. Liquidize the vegetables to imitate the chewed food that would be in the deer's stomach. Most good butchers will have 'pets' mince' or a mixture that they use for producing faggpts (meatballs). This pet mince normally contains off-cuts, offal and bits of internal organs, some skin, stomach lining and arteries - all the bits they could not sell to their modern customers. That takes care of the dog's natural second and third courses. The butcher will also put some bones aside for his better customers, which you will become if you purchase your own and your dog's food there. Feed the meat raw mixed with the liquidized vegetables. Add an egg and some dry porridge oats to bind it all and supply fibre and you have the perfect dog's dinner.
This sort of meal will vary naturally because you do not cook the same vegetables every day. You could add an apple or other fruit and celery is good as well. Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on numerous topics, but is currently concerned with researching Emergency for Dogs. If you would like to know more, please go to our web site at What To Do If Your Dog Eats Chocolate.