the recent rash of dog food recalls has me a bit panicked. how can i know what i am feeding my dogs is healthy and won't kill them? how can i distinguish chloe's pickiness with refusing to eat spoiled or rotten food? if my job is to protect the furkids, how can i do my duty if i feed them stuff made of plastic?
all of the doggy newslists i belong to, there have been people advocating a raw diet for dogs. not "raw" as in uncooked, but raw as in all natural origins and ingredients, not something that has been extruded (whatever the hell that means) into formulaic pellet-like shapes.
these are also women who can cook. my doggies are not so lucky to have a momma who can wield a spatula with ease. the great irony is they actually do eat what i cook for them unlike some 2-legged animals who are fearful of what i produce for them.
the puppies, on the other hand, are enthralled any time i am at the stove for them. normally, they get ground beef, cooked eggs, vanilla yogurt, cheese, chicken, pasta, or rice as a topping on their dry dog food. each time i top their bowls with one of these very lovely treats, they look at me adoringly.
as a strict vegetarian, i haven't eaten any meat, chicken or fish in more than 13 years, yet for the furkids, i'll cook ground beef and pull apart precooked chicken to feed them. mam complains that i'll cook for the dogs but not for him.
i'm quick to reply, "do you really want me to cook for you?" if he looked at me like how the dogs do, maybe i would try to cook for him. yeah, no. i still wouldn't do it.
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