Bailey’s Update – Meals
Bailey Update; Beware this is a little lengthy but if you have a dog you might want to spend the time to read it. If you have any questions or comments please be sure to leave them and I will address them as soon as possible.
Bob has been pretty good at keeping a blog going on Bailey’s health update. He has asked me a couple of time to contribute so here is what I have to contribute to Bailey’s health update.
I make most of Bailey’s food. I have been making almost all of my dogs food for many years but not quite as passionate as I have been with Bailey’s food (although I know that when Beasley had her health issues the last year of her life, I am pretty sure that I was just as adamant about making her food as well).
Each Friday night I put quite a lot of bones in a big soup kettle and let them boil for about 4 – 5 hours. Sometimes it is a turkey carcass, maybe chicken backs and necks but usually it is beef marrow bones – about 5 of them. Whatever I have decided the flavour of that week I get enough bones for a sufficient amount of tasty, healthy broth. Once the broth has come down to room temperature I put it in the fridge over night so I can lift the fat off the top of the broth and get as much meat, cartilage, marrow that I can get off the bones before discarding the fat and the bones.
I then bring the broth back up to a boil and put in the meat of the week ~ a lot of it, I usually add a ½ bag of cole or broccoli slaw, a couple of shredded carrots, maybe a beet, asparagus, spinach, broccoli and always lots of parsley. Basically any vegetable except for onions and garlic (or any related veg to onions or garlic because these vegetable are toxic to dogs) I don’t use any potatoes either or salt or pepper or other seasonings. It sounds like I put more vegetables in Bailey stew than meat but I don’t; dogs are carnivores and need the meat.
With Bailey’s illness being bone cancer I looked up which grains and vegetables are best for her at this. The grains I then put into Bailey’s stew is about 1/3 cup of each pearl barley or buckwheat, brown rice, flax seed and 2/3 cup of millet because millet is quite high in vitamin B15 which slows down the growth of the cancer tumor. I boil this concoction for about an hour. This lasts for about a week for Bailey getting fed twice a day; I also throw in a handful of high end canine health food kibble. Bailey likes her stew to be served slightly warm if you don’t mind.
I would like to add that never give any canines corn because most dogs are allergic to it.
The kibble that I give Bailey is Nutro Natural Choice for seniors.