Homemade Dog Food for Dachshunds
dachshunds are an adorable small breed
that many owners love to have the
problem with dachshunds is they can be a
little bit tricky to feed and that’s
because of a number of reasons most
importantly they are a very small breed
which means obviously they have to have
a specific nutrients and a smaller
calorie count than other larger dogs but
they’re also a very energetic small
breed so they need enough calories to be
able to keep up their typical energy
level but also a appropriate number of
calories to keep their weight under
control they have a faster metabolism
and a higher caloric made than other
small breeds so sometimes even a
commercial dog food that’s made
specifically for small breeds may not be
right for a dachshund and speaking of
obesity they are a breed who is prone to
obesity so watching out for that is
important but another thing that makes
it especially important is because of
their long spine their elongated spine
the weight on the belly the added weight
pulling down on the spine can cause a
lot a very serious spinal problems and
walking issues along with just the
problems that obesity causes in every
breed such as arthritis there’s actually
been some research showing that certain
types of cancer or more prevalent in
dogs that are overweight so definitely
weight is something that needs to be top
priority with the dachshund breed and
then also the breed is prone to
allergies are a few other breeds so
looking at limited ingredient recipes a
homemade diet is really great because it
allows you to control exactly what’s
going in the food so of course you know
how does any breed any diet especially
switching from a commercial diet to a
homemade food you want to have a lengthy
conversation with your veterinarian or
more specifically a king
Trishna s– and what they will do is
evaluate your dog based on many
different factors breed size weight age
energy level daily routine of course
overall health condition there may be
some things that could be helped or you
could do some early prevention with
through diet so that you will evaluate
your God’s overall needs and be able to
help guide you with some recipes but as
a great way to get you started this is a
recipe that you can take into your vet
or canine nutritionist
to question them about it and maybe
tweak this add some supplements whatever
they recommend but this is a really
great recipe to start with for dachshund
to make this holy dog food for
dachshunds it’s pretty easy this is a
limited ingredient recipe with just four
ingredients the first thing you’re going
to want to do is cube a pound of mutton
so here is my pound of mutton and you
want to put it in a medium sized
saucepan and on medium heat you’re just
going to boil it for an hour and a half
you don’t need to add any additional
water to the mutton the natural juices
are going to come out and it’s gonna
boil in that and you want to do that on
a low heat so it just sort of simmers
for an hour and a half and that will
make the meat nice and tender to add to
the recipe my chunks are a little bit
bigger right now I cut it down after
it’s cooked it’s a little bit easier to
cut but you want to make sure that you
cut it into pieces small enough for your
dachshund and in this other part I just
have some boiling water and I have three
and a half cups of oatmeal that I’m
cooking according to the instructions on
the packaging I’m gonna do that while my
mutton cooks and then once the oatmeal
is done because the oatmeal doesn’t take
hardly any time
I’m gonna set that aside to cool while
my mutton finishes cooking in a large
pot here I have my oatmeal that’s cooked
and I left it to sit while I was
finishing up the mutton the mutton is
here and that is cooked as well so I’m
gonna add that in there and I’m also
gonna add a half a cup of shredded
cucumber in five tablespoons of fish oil
and that’s it that’s my limited
ingredients homemade dog food for
dachshunds you’re just gonna mix this up
and it will be ready to serve to your
dog I recommend about a quarter of a cup
for every ten pounds of body weight per
serving and you’re gonna want to feed
two servings per day so that would be if
your dog weighed 10 pounds 1/4 of a cup
in the morning
a quarter cup in the evening
