My boxer has lost weight on homemade dog food diet. Need to get her weight up w/out using commercial dog food.

Although a dog’s diet is similar to humans, they still require a larger meat load. It seems like you put a larger emphasise on the vegetable and cereal part. Meat really is important for dogs.

Also, is she still feeding the pup? Maybe that's why she has lost so much weight. It's all going into milk production.

Regardless, I would feed her several times a day.

Our boxer loses weight drastically if he feels any stress whatsoever. He will become skin and bones virtually over night. My family went away on holidays, and within 5 days he was all ribcage. No muscle. Then within 3 days of everyone being home he was back to normal.

oh god yes

never never never never never never never never never never never never never never (did I say never)

give your dog corn.

Corn is not digestable in humans even. (Check your poo next time you eat corn)

In any amounts, in dogs it can cause gastrial distress, even death by bloat.

never feed corn. That's why I hate products like Beneful who's main ingredient is corn and corn paste.

I feed my dog grilled chicken breasts, sweet potatoes and brown rice with cheese and hamburger ground meat. Sometimes I add some frozen carrots for his teeth and baby food.

Babyfood I use is usually turkey, sweetpotato and turkey, sweetpotato or chicken.

there is also gerber graduates which has chicken sticks that I cut up and mix in.

I make sure all of this is cooked well, and mix it together.

I feed him 2x to 3x a day in small amounts depending on the weight of the dog. (I do small amounts 2x a day because I have a small breed.)

You may want to also try to feed low fat but high protien dog treats.

If you want to avoid commercial dog foods like Crappy Iams and seriously insane Beneful, try foods like Canidae and blue buffalo which is high in protine and essential vitamins and fibers and lacking in unnecessary preservatives and additives.

Talk to your vet and see if there are vitamin supplements you can also safely try. (supplements made for pets.)

You may want to research online for a pet nutritionist for advice.

I'm NOT a raw diet advocate for many reasons. (I am mostly the advisor against it.)

however, if you still have serious issues you may want to consult a nutritional specialist or a veterinarian about if the RAW (BARF) diet is for your dog and if it would help.

but again, a RAW diet is a drastic change, so you won't want to start the diet without consulting your vet or a nutritionist.

if all of this doesn't work,

I'd go with your vet's suggestion to see if there is an underlying health issue.

Sometimes irritable bowel, gastrial distress, and other neurological disorders can cause weight loss.

Irritable bowel you can recognise easily because in that case, they have the runs. Potatoes cannot be digested by dogs easily so I don't agree with the others on that. Basically, meat and some boiled vegetables. Veal, chicken and lamb. Not pork, they can't handle it. Oatmeal porridge with butter is easy on the stomach and nourishing. But meat should be the number one ingredient. In her age, I think it should not be raw but cooked.

My guess is that she may be stressed out with her puppies.

Good luck!

(and if it doesn't work, let's swap dogs for a while, Kuru could do with losing some pounds and I'd get your boxier fat in no time at all. hehe)

Maybe it's as simple as the pup keeping her more active ? And not enough meat ? Dogs do need meat. At times I've added oil or raw eggs to my dogs food. Dogs and humans (and cows) can eat corn, but it has to be split or yes, it will pass straight through(even in cows). Dogs tend to gulp their food so there is little chance of it being split. Unless you want to mash it, avoid feeding it to dogs(in fact, even when I split the kernels, most seemed to pass through anyways). Commercial dog food (that is dry dog food, not canned) as long as it says it is balanced, and is approved by the something something something something association (I forget, it's a bunch of letters, you'll see it on expensive commercial dog food) , is really the best "base" food for your dog. The other food you give now, and should continue to give, can complement their diet. As many (most) of us see our pets as our children, we feel that we are doing them a disservice by not preparing the food ourselves. You cannot guarantee the calorific amount of food you prepare, but commercial food can. If there is no medical problem, I'd try a good brand of commercial food for a few weeks, weighing the amount given, so an accurate check can be kept. Why are people here so against commercial (dry) dog food ? It is mostly cereal, but is an excellent balanced diet. As for broccoli, I couldn't stand the looks my dogs gave me when I added it to their food.

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When I home cooked for my dogs, I used about 60 percent meat, 20 percent was mixture of either sweet potato or white potato or rice and 20 percent was mixed veggie (usually a veggie mush with either carrot and green bean, carrot and broccoli, yellow squash and alfalfa sprouts,)

For treats they ate home made biscuits (lots of good recipes on the web).

Also, fed them frozen banana slices or raw apple wedges with no seeds or core. (small amounts)

In addition, I gave them occasional low fat cottage cheese or plain yogurt and I sprinkled Brewer's Yeast on the food and gave them fish oil capsules daily (Vet approved) for skin and coat.

Twice a week they had a raw egg each and I ground the egg shell finely and mixed it in the food.

They did great on that diet. Some dogs get gassy on cottage cheese, but I only added a bit to their diet. More often gave them yogurt.

Your dog may be getting too much grain or be sensitive to the grain so instead of rice, try white potato (when you give her carrots) and sweet potato when she doesn't have carrots.

For meat, I mostly gave my dogs chicken. I occasionally gave them raw beef heart, cubed and added to their food. It's a natural source of taurine and dogs need a bit of organ meat in their diet.

Run these suggestions by your Vet, but I have three dogs and one had a sensitive stomach. When all the mega recalls happened I went to a home cooked diet for months, but since my dog food was never recalled I went back to it. It's a good blend for dogs prone to allergy and with sensitive stomachs. I feed them Nature's Recipe Venison and Rice. It has no artificial dyes, no wheat or corn.

Wellness Fish and Sweet Potato is another blend that is good for dogs with sensitive stomach and allergies.

You require both for your daily intake i wood point out just as good as one another. Granta

Will depend on the context really. Which is better as a snack - fruits to me. It's tastier and gives you that little of sweetness. Which can be better as a snack if you are trying hard to lower back on sugar and lose weight vegetables

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