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Home made diets?

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I live in the UK and it would seem that feeding home made diets and raw feeding is incredibly popular. I was among the many lead to believe that commerical dog foods are a complete food and dogs don't need anything else. I started researching raw food when I joined a forum I am no long on and then eventually switched to a complete raw food. I believe in good food for my dog and value for money and found many of the comercial dry/wet foods are just not balanced enough and I dislike how dog food is made, I wanted to choose a more natural wholesome way of feeding my dog. I am to say that my vet supports the food I feed my dog and the place I buy my complete raw from also supports and educates owners about good healthy foods for dogs.

I wish to learn more about home made raw diets and have the following questions =

What books did you read before you changed?
What is your home made menue like?
How long have you been making home made foods?? Why did you get started?
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What books did you read before you changed?
None, I could not afford any books when I got started. I did a lot of research online at various sites like the ones mentioned above, from a few bloggers, and from reading scientific studies I found on sites like these: http://jn.nutrition.org/ http://www.nutritionj.com/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

What is your home made menue like?
You can see how I go about constructing a meal here: http://losech.blogspot.com/2012/02/using-nutritiondatacom-to-balance-home.html
Sometimes I feed prey-model raw (80% meat, 10% organ, 10% bone), sometimes I feed partial raw and partial cooked, othertimes I feed a fully cooked meal, or sometimes even just leftovers.

How long have you been making home made foods?? Why did you get started?
Christmas day 2010. I started doing this because Conker was not digesting his kibble very well and was having other major digestive issues (Science Diet Puppy, Orijen Puppy) and would not eat enough of it to support a growing puppy. He began to lose weight at an alarming rate and was very boney so I decided to feed him homemade food after he stole a whole steak off my plate and began to eat it on my carpet.
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