Dog Soup!

[Bad Habit]

I just spent 5 hours making dog soup, and ended up with about 5 gallons of it! I'm quite proud of the soup as well, I boiled some lamb/beef bones for about an hour and a half, and got all the meat off that I could. Added some ground beef, shrimp, pasta, carrot chunks, blueberries, crushed garlic and rice, then used pureed carrot and potatoes to thicken the stock. Fed my dog his first dinner tonight and he loves it!! I ended up with three weeks worth of dinners for my dog, and a weeks worth of dinners for my mum's dog, all for under 10$, and everything I put in is good for the dog and easy on the tummy. Plus I was able to reclaim a lot of freezer space by cleaning out all the little bits of stuff.

Anyone else in the habit of making dog soup for their dogs?

[evergreen]

Never tried it but it sounds great! I'll have to try making it whenever I get a dog (who knows when that will be)

[Bad Habit]

well, just be warned, if you make your stock by boiling bones, it's gonna smell bad. I could not believe the smell it made, I was gagging as I was stirring the pot.

[Jazi]

Not quite soup for dogs, but we do something similar. We get a huge hunk of cow or lamb and stew it until the meat is practically falling off the bones. The dogs get the bones and marrow after they dry, and we eat the stew

But my parents do mix a little "human food" with the dog food every once in a while as a treat or to help their bellies. Many people refuse to believe "human food" such as cooked meat could be good for dogs, but a little browned hamburger (unseasoned) with some rice goes a long way to calming a dog's stomach.

[Bad Habit]

Carrots, garlic and blueberries are all really good for dogs as well. My guy gets raw meat bones to chew on, but I bought probably three times as many as I needed this fall, and am sick of looking at them, which is why I made the soup. He's not a big eater though, and if I made him eat only kibbles, he'd lose a lot of weight. He's got a big underbite, and I think it hurts him to eat kibbles.

[Angelus Gaston]

We make stew for our dogs with the carrot tops potato and other left over veggie we have along with meat. My GSD Axel can be very fussy with his food and if he is given the same thing for to long he dosnt eat it. We also have two lurchers and it helps keep them in condition.
Ours are fed on mostly a natural any way and some dry working dog biscute. Even the ferrets eat the stew and not just the meat but they like the carrot raw.

[Bad Habit]

I first started cooking for my pets when I had a disabled ferret who couldn't eat kibbles. I would stew a piece of meat for hours and hours until the whole thing turned literally to mush, so the ferret could drink it.

Chuckie gets Taste of the Wild as his kibble, which is high quality, but he doesn't even eat a quarter cup of it a day. He is, after all, only a 14lb chihuahua cross, so he doesn't need much to begin with, but I still enjoy seeing him eat a nice sized meal, so I know his tummy's full.