There are various choices to make in food regarding our four-legged friend. For the correct nourishment of your dog there are many needs to be considered regarding size, age, race and health condition.

As of today, the most common food is industrial based, in other words, croquettes. When a nutrition of this type is chosen for our four-legged friend it is good to carefully check the nutritional values written on the product’s label: very often, as a matter of fact, the cheapest brands contain low quality raw materials that may hurt our pet.

There are 2 aspects to be careful of when we’re choosing the dry food for our dog: meat’s presence (and so protein’s) and the cereal quantity.

Regarding the first aspect, we know that dogs are former carnivorous, because of this it is important to plan a protein-based diet. An advice: check that the writing “meat” is listed on the label instead of similar writings that may trick us.

The second aspect regards the cereal percentage: these are accepted in the canine diet but in a moderate quantity. Often, instead, the percentage of cereal present in the food is very high because its price is inferior than meat’s.

Luckily the pet food market keeps moving towards the product’s higher quality and a better integration of all the nutritional substances that the dog needs to live well, longer and stay healthy.

Choosing the homemade nutrition for your dog doesn’t mean to give them left-overs, instead it means to dedicate part of our time to prepare meals for our four-legged friend.

When this type of nutrition is chosen above dry food it must be considered that it is very important to keep the same diet throughout all the dog’s life, obviously considering the right adjustments related to age, race and weight.

But how much food do I have to prepare for my dog? The answer is simple. The dog must consume about 40gr of wet food multiplied for his weight in Kg, so if your dog weighs 5 kg you should prepare 200gr of food every day. It is of course, a general formula that must be adjusted on our dog’s metabolism and lifestyle.

In homemade nutrition many ingredients can be used like meat, fish, but also vegetables like zucchini, carrots, fennels or pumpkins. The advice is that half the meal is composed of meat, and the other half of vegetables or carbohydrate like pasta or rice. The food needs be cooked without adding oil or other fats, it is ideal the steam cooking for vegetables for it maintains intact all the nutritional elements, for the food containing carbohydrate is advisable a long cooking, to make them easily digestible for the dog.