Beef and Rice Dog Food

post to "Pampered Pooch" group too!

Pat, if you want to post to any pet sites, please feel free. I'm not a member of any of the pet groups myself - way to many groups to keep up with!

great recipe thanks

Susan, this is a keeper! Why didn't I think of canned peas and carrots?? It sure saves a lot of dishes!!! Saved!

Hi Susan, I posted a picture of our Harrier Hound. We adopted him when he was two and he had bad allergies. They finally decided it was meat!
so he eats vegetarian dogfood.

That's so unusual about the meat! I guess our Buster does fine with meat - he's eating up the beef or chicken or liver, whatever I give him, much better than he did the dog food - and we were feeding him Blue Buffalo (that expensive stuff).
Your picture looks so much like Buster when he was younger. Buster is over 16 years old. We adopted him when he was about 1 year old - he just showed up at our house one day, and wouldn't go home. He kept stealing leather items from the neighbors, and bringing them into our garage - a baseball glove, a tennis shoe, a bike handlebar grip. So I put him inside our fenced back yard and asked around the neighborhood to see if anyone knew who he belonged to. Long story short, he became our dog. And he's been a good one!
Just curious - what do they put in vegetarian dog food?

Wow, 16, that's great! That is so funny about how he would bring you items from neighbors... a few years ago Jake would escape and do the same thing.
He would be gone for 20 or 30 minutes and return with some toy or other small garage item!! So are they retrievers? or Seek and find specialists. tee hee.
The food has rice, soybean, barely and carrots... also vitamins and oil,etc.
He stays well with it. Sometimes gets an upset tummy and takes an acid reducer. We don't know why it acts up now and then. Dogs, wish they could talk!

Boy, don't I know it! If Buster could tell us what's ailing him, we'd fix it for sure.
The vet said he's losing the nerves in his back legs, and might have a neoplastic growth somewhere because he keeps losing so much weight, even though he eats well. He hardly walks much any more, just out to the yard to use the bathroom. He sleeps a lot, and sometimes has trouble getting up from a lying-down position. The vet said if he was down and stayed there for 12 or more hours, we should bring him in and think about euthanasia; but as long as he can move around some, we can keep him him with us. He takes daily pain medication, glucosamine, and an antibiotic twice a month for mouth bacteria.
I can't get over how much he looks like your Harrier Hound. Yours is the only other one I've ever seen, except for pictures in dog books. They could just about be twins. I understand they are good for hunting rabbits. I know Buster was always hard to walk on a leash because he kept his nose to the ground following rabbit trails.

i have had to make the same stuff but i used ground turkey and chicken and my kids loved it too lol just a thought