Home-made Pet Food in Minutes!

Learn to build a balanced homemade pet diet with meat choices, organs, bone content, fruits and vegetables, fish oils, eggs, vitamins, storage, and safe raw options while consulting your veterinarian.

Compare bone-in and boneless meat for homemade pet food, covering raw versus cooked diets. Raw bone provides calcium and dental benefits, while cooked meat requires bone-free options to stay safe.

Choose meat cuts for your pet, prioritizing chunked meat in bite-sized pieces: nickel-sized for cats and quarter-sized or larger for dogs; ground meat is acceptable when needed.

Explore pet-friendly meat proteins and a rotating schedule: four poultry days, one red meat day, one fish day, and one other protein day, with a downloadable resource.

Keep the meat to fat ratio around 90% lean or 93% lean with 7–10% fat to prevent pancreatitis and ensure a safe, healthy homemade pet food diet.

Learn where to purchase meat for a homemade pet diet by choosing from grocery stores, local butchers, or raw meat pet stores that ship frozen meat.

Explain why bone belongs in your pet’s diet and how to choose bones. Include bone sources, replacement options, and the prey model ratio of 80% muscle, 10% organs, 10% bone.

Choose raw bones from chicken, beef, rabbit, lamb, and other non-fish sources; avoid fish bones and cooked bones. Keep pieces appropriately sized: small for cats and larger for dogs.

Discover bone options for your pet by sourcing raw bones from meat retailers, sizing bones for cats or dogs, and considering bone-in meat or bone alternatives like eggshell calcium supplements.

Learn why organ meats are essential for a balanced pet diet. Apply the 80% muscle meat, 10% bone, 10% organ meats ratio for proper nutrition.

Identify which organ meats belong to the 10% portion (liver, spleen, kidneys, brains, sweetbreads) and which count as muscle (heart, trachea, lungs, tripe, tongue), with liver as the go-to.

Cook and blend organ meats with bone broth, or chop into pieces to mix with muscle meat; for raw organs, grind in a food processor or use organ support powder.

Identify where to buy organ meats for your pet's diet, including local grocery stores, big box retailers, local butchers, online options, and small family farms that ship to your door.

Explore why fruits and vegetables fit into home-made pet food for dogs and cats, noting dogs naturally have 15–20% plant matter and cats obtain plants from prey stomach contents.

Discover the ideal ratios of fruits and vegetables to meat for pets, with dogs at 15–20% and cats at 3–5%, to boost vitamins, minerals, and fiber, including low glycemic options.

Learn why adding good quality digestive enzymes is essential in clean, homemade pet food to help dogs and cats digest fruits, vegetables, and plant matter.

Learn how starch can economically satiate cats and dogs without being required. Access the downloadable guide on pet-friendly starch and choose the best options, as not all starches work equally.

Discover why supplementation is essential in homemade pet food, as copper, vitamin d, vitamin b12, vitamin e, manganese, thiamine, taurine, iodine, and selenium prevent nutritional deficiencies.

Find sources for vitamin powders for home-made pet diets, including bone-in options from renewed Pets.com, and alternatives like feline instincts and easy Balancer, with calcium forms and pack sizes.

Include omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA from fish oils in homemade pet food; rotate small, fresh sources like krill, sardine, and cod liver oil and add at the end.

Add eggs to your pet’s homemade diet as a complete protein with all amino acids. Feed about one egg per 10 pounds of weight, three times weekly, and rotate proteins.

Learn how to prepare eggs for your pet's diet by separating yolk from white, cooking the whites, and feeding after thawing meat or as a weekend treat.

Introduce eggs slowly into your pet's diet, starting with one egg per meal or week, since eggs are a source of protein, and monitor for gastrointestinal upset or allergy symptoms.

Learn how to safely feed a raw pet diet by washing hands, quarantining pets, cleaning bowls, wiping mouths and paws, and freezing meat seven days before thawing in the fridge.