04/09/07 Home Cooked Dog Food

Until 1860 when an English Chap named James Spratt began selling dog cakes to country gentlemen for their hunting dogs, dogs simply ate leftovers. Doggy diets evloved in 1907 when Milk Bone Dog biscuits paved the way for today's multi-billion doller pet food industry. Our canine obession has provided marketers with endless packaging and produts options but the recented poisoned pet food could slow this lucerative growth curve. Book stores and Amazon .com are reporting that they can't keep up with the requests for dog food cook books because compassionate owners are now preparing home cooked meals for their canine companions and discovering that cooking for dogs is not much different from healthy humane fare. Dogs, are omnivores like us, so some veggies and Hamburger Helper is right up their alley . Problem is most Americans no longer even cook for themselves cook for themselves so so for the majority of us a dog food recomendaiotn from a trusted vet is the best safety tactic.