I only use organic, peanuts only peanut butter. I also do not feed it to my dog but only use it to help her take her pills. She is 13 going on 14.

1. Peanutbutter 2. Rice 3. vegetables (some could be a good source of fiber but shouldn't take up too much of pet's diet) 4. Legumes

Why didn't you mention natural peanut butter ...it's just ground nuts without sugar or man made fats?

My Jack Russell is 14 years old. She had Pancreatitis and Colitis so I cook her, Organic Chicken Breast, Sweet Potatoes and lots of Organic Carrots. She is Thriving, I also give her Probiotics and Slippery Elm Powder for the Colitis, it has proved Excellent. She looks and feels like a Puppy again, so Thankful !

Great video. The korn kibble krowd will say that carbs are energy and ignore diabetes. Fortunately, one of my cats throws up most commercial food that has grains. Which is how I discovered your channel and started feeding homemade. I now eat healthier too! Thank you for this thorough information. Happy Feline Friday!

this is so great. I have doberman, pitbull and beagle. My lovely vet told me that I don't need to add any veggies or carb into there food. I feed raw food that have only meat, edible bone and organ . People said I should add this or add that but I stay strong and continue feed them pure meat. My pitty turn 13, my beagle turn 12 and my dobie just turn 1 this year and they all are very good health condition

Super glad I found your channel and very grateful for you as a resource. I stopped discussing food choices altogether for myself and my dog. While people ask me often because of the health results achieved (I am 55 and super fit - with little excercise and no deprivation) + I brought my puppy back from edge of death (he got giardia and was very allergic to the meds AND the chicken/rice diet they prescribed) I am tired of hearing about how important carbs are and why fats are unhealthy in the quantities I include in my diet and the pup's.

My dog is allergic to organs. Throwing up every time she ate those. Also, she can’t have too much meat as it is bad to her kidney. My vet recommends adding rice and veggies to her diet. She never got fat her whole life. She is now 16. I guess every dog is different.

Rice is good. Just use less if you're concerned about weight. This video is dangerous. Don't give dogs too much protein. I fell for it and went grain free. Lost a dog to kidney failure. Don't make my mistake. Edit: vegetables are good too in moderation. Please don't follow this video. Talk to your vet if you are confused.

you state spinach is potentially bad than link your basic recipe for dogs at the end of this video which calls for spinach. confused

Idk about that... my dog was diagnosed with arthritis and some spine issues last year after i took him to the vet when he wasnt able to walk anymore, so I switch to home-made food which includes green peas, beans, and rice as some of the ingredients and he's been able to run and walk again since then🤷‍♂️

This is a great explanation of why comercial pet foods make our pets obese.

Great video! Thank you for this great information!! 😊

I do not eat peanut butter and never food my dog it. Organic, sugar free? No. I think of what a wolf would eat. Wolves got vegetables from the stomachs of the animal they killed....so very little, and very seldom. Beef, turkey, chicken and salmon...a little pork, but rarely. Berries, yes. My dog is picky and doesn't care for vegs or fruit, but will eat a few frozen organic blue berries. Wolves ate berries too. I know our dogs are not Wolves, but I think in terms of what a wild animal would eat and it's not peanuts.

I went on the carnivore diet and completely cured my IBS. I imagine eliminating vegetables could help many dogs also.

I have seen your videos where you have used spinach while devising a balanced diet for dogs? So is this video right or that one where you added spinach to form a balanced diet for dogs? Because information in both videos can't be right

This is a question for a older video if I have a more active dog is it still okay to feed once a day? She is a 2.5 year old spayed chug she kinda goes back and forth from 16-18 ibs we have almost 30 acres that she runs around, chases things, etc. I just wanted to make sure she wouldn’t be hungry. She is my first dog and my family has always fed twice a day so it’s new to me.

Disappointing to see this blanket statement about all peanut butter. As soon as I saw that pop up and the "fact" that it has trans and sugar, I knew this video was not worth my time. Actual peanut butter contains ONLY peanuts!

A few comments: first, not all peanut butters contain trans fat (or even sugar sometimes), and beef does has some at about 6% of its fat. And second, I agree that rice isn't a fitting food for dogs, but I'm skeptical about using the glycemic index, as dogs can't make amylase as effectively as people. I have a different idea as to the cause of pet obesity, but that's not relevant. Also, apparently high fiber was a big contributer to the grain free food DCM scare, and not just legumes.

🤯 wow I learn so much from your videos. I didn’t know about the peas, and I was uncertain about rice.

Appreciate if you could advice whether I can add egg shell to my kitties raw diet as calcium supplement. It is difficult for me to grind bones such as chicken neck etc. if it is okay to add egg shell what is the correct daily dosage ?

I always get laughed at when i tell ppl that i'm not feeding my dog commercial dog food 😂 The rice discussion lmao; When we first got our dog everyone immediately told me to feed my dog daily rice bc its good for their stool and i was like uh no thank you 🤣 and they all acted so weirded out when i told them she's getting RAW meat lmao 😂 same with my cats lol 'AT LEAST COOK IT! ITS DANGEROUS!' comes from the kibble fed cats owners lmao. My cats are not getting any veggies, my dog does bc she came with some digesting problems and the herbs etc. are doing her good. I always said, it's weird feeding dogs and cats corn, but ppl always laughed at me 😶‍🌫

Well researched and presented. Good job.

If your going to talk about a topic anyways, fully research that topic or if you know than make sure it’s covered. There are so many versions of peanut butter nowadays and it’s so easy to make your own as well. Don’t mislead, say that as long as it’s only peanuts or peanuts with salt it’s okay. Because this way people will think all peanut butter is bad and never use it again.

Thank you for all this information. My dog gets mostly meats and a few good digestible veggies.

Ok, now when my dog is sick, I give him boiled chicken and rice

So should we avoid alll veggie or just legumes

I found that 5 slices if raw zucchini and 1/4 cup baked yam works great, at least for my dog. I dont five spinach, rice or any legumes.

In your suggested video at the end, the starter raw diet, you suggested to add cooked or puree spinach to their diet. Is there another alternative I can give to my dogs instead?

Thank you for sharing your expertise. I now feed a raw meat based diet with some vegetables recommended in this video.

Hey ! Good chance you won’t see this but if you do I’m very thankful for the research that you do. I’ve just lost my 13-14 years old dog due to cancer. But before that I’ve been researching how certain food/vitamins help out with cancer and for humans certain food do help b/c it wires the body to stop feeding the cancer cells. With that even though I have say vitamin E capsules or vegetable food that gives vitamins I know it’s doesn’t work the same for dogs. (Omnivore vs carnivore) and as far as I know the information on certain food effective absorption is hard to find. But thanks to your channel and research I’m finding some answers even though it’s too late. Anyways thanks for the work that you do and the community your building we need more information on how effective say “x” food is absorb by carnivores to help turn the tides on this overwhelming battle with cancer.

Is ground chicken quarters, hamburger, eggs and liver enough variation for my golden doodles?

I like this channel generally, this time I still thought it would be a good idea to clarify some details and provide more information on the type of peanut butter this video mentions. *** The video is talking about processed peanut butter with additives. That is not peanut butter, rather a subcategory of it. In some parts of the wold, most brands don’t contain additives, you can also buy organic ones or you can also make it yourself. So when someone says peanut butter, I don’t think of spreads with additives I don’t even buy for myself and I’m sure there are others who are aware of this, so in this sense, the video is misleading. I now in some parts of the world they mostly have the kind which is heavily processed but I am sure they also have natural ones, that is one more reason the video should have clarified they are only going to talk about a specific type of product. I also read something about the FDA’s final determination where manufacturers were required to remove trans fats from their products between 2018-2021, that was just a quick search so others who are interested can find more details. I think the video should have gone into the effects of “actual” peanut butter if they decided to use the general term of “peanut butter”, intead of straight up telling pet owners who might not do their own research that it “has the potential of killing your pet. What is it? Peanut butter.”, quoting from the video.

I have 4 large dogs. I started cooking for them when I found my largest Rottweiler had food sensitivities and allergies with constant runny stools. I have not perfected this yet and he still has it most days but not all. However, I can only afford either ground turkey, ground beef or lean pork. They love their veggies but I only use a 10/1 ratio. Do you have any other ideas for meat? I tried organ meat but could not cook it because it grossed me out.

Awesome thank you

What would you reccommend to replace the spinach in your frozen veggie treats.

This is a very informative video. Thank you for this channel! The more educated owners the less unhealthy, suffering dogs and cats.

Excellent video! I knew most already via my human nutrition efforts but it's great to see somebody explaining so well for pet parents.

My vet says feeding raw chicken feet is not good? I’d be getting them from Walmart if that makes any difference. If someone could give me a reputable source on this matter it’d be great. I’m also giving her chicken liver from Walmart but boiling it first, is that bad?

Their vegetables or dairy portion should be pictured of like....what amount would they consume in the stomach or breast tissue of prey. If you stop and think how small a bird or a bunnys tummy is... those amounts they would consume are quite small

This is great advice for humans as well

Xylitol is horrible, I tried it and got terrible stomach cramps.

After this video I've switched to sweet potato from rice,, though I don't use vegetable much from the beginning,, just little bit of carrots & pumpkin,, hopefully it's alright

What about Framers dog and Ollie dog food? Are those bad?

Could you share how you deworm dogs and puppies? Thank you 😊

My pups eat a raw carnivore diet as they did in the wild. Every so often I give them carrots or cauliflower to munch on. Not an inexpensive way to eat especially with 3 pups but I hope they live long healthy lives avoiding the vet as much as possible.

So what is the best food to feed my dog.

I get why we shouldn't feed peanut butter and this is a good reminder but... it works so good as a distractor. I stick to organic (salt and peanuts) and will only give my dog a spoonful spread out on a lick pad and only when I need to distract him here and there for a time. However, I will try to limit it even more after watching this and will look to find other solutions to occupy his time when needed.

There is peanut butter that are 100% no sugar no salt so people have to read ingredients. . Thats what I buy for me . But i don't feed it tomy cat .

Legumes are the worst thing to feed giant breed dogs. It’s why “grain free” food got a bad name-due to dogs getting DCM when eating it. It’s bc Legumes block the absorption of L-Taurine, and that’s already low in a lot of giant breed dogs! Rice is one of the worst offenders for causing skin issues and allergies in dogs as well. I quit feeding grain free kibble and went to raw once I realized I couldn’t find any reasonably priced that didn’t have legumes or rice. So glad I did!!! My dogs are healthier than they’ve ever been. For trace minerals, I feed one kid gummy vitamin a day per dog. Just be careful they’re natural (I do!) and have no funky additives or fake sugars that can hurt them!

I make homemade food for my cat Ground beef sometimes Turkey ground with supplements know better premix vitamins. Since he's been 5 months hes now 10 months he only weights 9 pounds and 4 oz.

Not all peanut butters contain trans fats (ie hydrogenated oils). A natural PB like Adam's or many organic brands wouldn't contain those.

I add certain dog safe sprouts to my dogs food. Some are fenugreek, clover, alfalfa broccoli 🌱 sprouts lentil sprouts and sunflower sprouts. I also add wheatgrass juice an ounce of carrot juice and ground flax seeds and pumpkin seeds. Also fresh ground coconut meat..Last but not all is Moringa from a local tree. Dandilion leaf too Look that up. Don’t take my word. Also fresh raw unsalted peanut butter with nothing added is NOT bad nor is a small amount of organic rice.

I ask anyone watching this stuff to check what the ACTUAL research says. Don't just believe what you see - particularly when the studies cited are not shared.

Sorry but I am a bit confused. You do recommend spinach in one of your beginner friendly recipes for raw feeding dog and it is 57g.

My cats are not transitioning to raw. I have transitioned them from packed to home cooked meal, which only includes meat, organs, fish etc. I feed raw to all other strays and they love it. Kindly advise how to transition to Raw from cooked. I have seen your video on transition from packed to raw. But these kittens dont touch the food if I mix even a little bit of Raw in the food. Kindly advise what can be done, or is it ok to feed quality cooked meat? Most of the meat is freshly cut meat from local Stores and not the pre packed frozen one.

Xylitol is also labeled as birch sugar

My dog can be picky and I’ve tried some raw meat before with my dog, but idk if she will consistently like it and I don’t wanna waste hundreds of dollars on that good diet if my dog won’t eat it.. any tips?

I read somewhere that rice depletes taurine, so that makes it even more dangerous for cats.

Plenty of peanut butter comes with no trans fat or sugar.

What if you grind peanuts by themselves?

I add cucumber,bell pepper to my homemade cat food

So if my dog is skinny I should feed rice?

Would love to see a video on homemade low-protein diets for dogs with Kidney disease.

What about special dog peanut butter? Is it okay to give dogs special doggy ice cream as an occasional treat?

I want to share this with all pet owners feeding puppiccino

Can you recommend cheaper alternatives? My parents are on fixed income and try their best at feeding 2 dogs well. All the meat is very expensive for them. Please recommend what people should use

My peanut butter contains peanuts and salt. Nothing else. Not that Mabel gets any too often. Just occasionally.

Great video, but not all breeds can eat raw meat. Our little terrier has a sensitive stomach and the vet recommended green beans, squash mixed with hills science solid chicken, or cooked chicken.

Carbs aren't essential for us humans as well. Actually, I have a similar diet as my cat 😃

Even my vet use to give it to my Chihuahua. But Pablo is sick of Peanut Butter now, so that's good. And thank you!

I'm sorry, but you didn't even mention the WORST problem with rice. A lot of people think that if you cook and then completely cool the rice overnight, you'll get resistant starches that can both lower the glycemic index of the rice and provide a very specific type of fiber called resistant starches that feed healthy bacteria in the gut. Most homemade dog foods are refrigerated or frozen, and that can lower the glycemic index of rice, and provide resistant starches. But even that doesn't make rice acceptable for dogs. All rice contains arsenic. And yes, I did say arsenic, that toxic substance that can kill in high enough doses. A lot of people think that eating whole grain brown rice is healthier, because it has a lower glycemic index than white rice, but it actually contains MORE arsenic than white rice. Even organic brown rice has arsenic, and some brands of organic brown rice were found to be the highest in arsenic. And arsenic is cumulative. Eating rice day after day, every single day, is how rice becomes so toxic. And with your pet eating the same brands of food every day, or owners only using one recipe that includes rice for feeding their pet, they can get an astronomic amount of arsenic, which can cause cancer, especially a very specific type of cancer that is found in the bladder. My dog died from that kind of cancer. I thought I was giving her the healthiest diet possible, including only organic foods, avoiding legumes and other anti-nutrients, and making sure that the rice I used was whole grain organic brown rice, refrigerating it overnight to provide her with healthy resistant starches and lowering the glycemic index of it. She ate that day after day for years, and died of bladder cancer caused by arsenic poisoning. THAT is the biggest reason why rice should not be fed to pets. And I'm horrified that you didn't even mention it, because that fact has been known for YEARS. And most people can't imagine the sorrow that finding out what you thought was the healthiest diet possible for your pet actually killed them. I sorrow every single day for my dog, Mitzi, who was the most loving and loyal and well-trained dog I've ever had. And it's been four years since her death, and I STILL think of her, every single day. Every day, she motivates me to try to do even better for my current three little dogs. And you didn't mention that peanut butter also contains aflotoxins. Even the no-added-sugar, no added fats, fresh ground nothing but organic peanuts from the health food store.

And pumpkin?

I use only Organic Peanut Butter, Crunchy. My brand contains only Peanuts. They love it on bisquits.

Organic Peanut with only peanut fat?

I’m just laughing reading all these comments about peanut butter. People it is an ingredient. Your dog does not need. Provides nothing to their diet. It makes you feel good when you give your dog a treat. That’s all. In some rare cases, it can be helpful and getting medicine into your dog but even then please try to find an alternative.

Brown rice it ok

Nature best.x herbs.

Sadly my pooch can't eat any kind of meat. She eats fruits & veggies for treats and a prescription soft food you only can get with a medical card. I get her the Himalayan cheese sticks for her to have someone to chew on it's tough like bones. Poor thing is pretty much a vegetarian. She's on probiotics. She's is healthy weight and doing well 🐩💗

I make my own peanut butter with plain unsalted peanuts, no added anything, and keep it in the fridge (just for an occasional treat.)

So, use single ingredient peanut butter, duh.

Dogs need to eat starchy carbs seeds like rice and wheat. It’s very dangerous to avoid it altogether

Carbohydrates are also making us obese.

I need foods to make my picky dog gain weight.

My dogs are carnivores and I am too.

My dog only eats beef and liver. Nothing else.

I have also noticed a big uptick in the amount of vegetables and supplements, nuts, and seeds, etc. in diets online now. Absolutely unnecessary. Waste of money. Does not benefit the dog at all. People need to get back to the basics. Animal protein, and may be a teensy-weensy amount of low glycemic veggies now and then if needed.

you really should separate cats and dogs because they are very different. Cats are obligate carnivores and dogs are more omnivores. Check out the latest info about grain-free diets for dogs. My opinion its the excess peas and legumes added to grain free but just my opinion. Essentially dogs need veggies and grain, but cats need pure meat. I learned a lot about this with my elderly kitties at the end of their lives, unfortunately too late to fix the damage. I'm trying to do better for my dogs but dog food companies even the better ones follow the trends. I don't have the time to do homemade right so I give them the best I can find and add fresh veggies.

I make my own peanut butter with organic peanuts. The only treat I put the peanut butter in is a frozen treat with organic coconut yogurt. As far as what I put in his bowl, I use a recipe by a world renown vet who has practiced traditional veterinary medicine for 30+ years, and wholistic and Chinese medicine for over 20 years. Her recipe has a small portion of veggies, but it's a well balanced recipe that can be fed raw or gently cooked. I add organic quinoa and 4 oz peas and 4 oz green beans for fiber (in a 14 pound loaf) because my dog started eating grass. Since I started adding some fiber, he eats much less grass.

Are you serious? Are there actually owners feeding their pets peanut butter?

Because of your channel and because our commercial dog food is all crap and full of toxins, (killed one of my shepherds) I switched over to raw for my 2 German Shepherds. 14 and 4 years old. What a change in both of them. My 14 year old had both knees repaired and was not active at all and overweight. Now she chases my 4 year old around the backyard and lost 10 lbs. I thank you for your work. BUT…you state spinach should not be in dogs diet. I just saw your video on “Simple raw food recipes for dogs” and you have spinach in the recipe..so which is it. Yes or No on the spinach?

You haven't mentioned oxalates, which are bad for pets and humans alike. Dogs and cats should be carnivore.

Hi! First of all, thank so much for your channel, your information you so carefully gathered and provide for us. My dog is getting raw feed for 2 years now and he loves it and he thrives with it. But now I have a problem: i needed to update my spreadsheet and his recipe. I gathered all data, made a new spreadsheet and a new recipe, I've even managed to get ALL nutrients to the recommend allowance (safe of iodine) within his food with as little to no supplements ... BUT i can't reach his recommended kaloric intake and i don't know what to do?! Everything else is on point, even the percentsge (28kg dog, 2,5% food=700gramms)..and then comes the kicker, too low in calories way too high in fat! The fat content is 4 times higher than recommended while his calories are still 200 short... Can somebody explain this to me? I'm lost

Show me the proof carbs are harmful to dogs? If your dog isn't being overfed and is getting their nutrient needs met, then carbs are a great source of energy. I know of working dogs whose performance suffers without a good carb source. Dogs might not need carbs to survive but many working dogs need them to thrive. If you have a lazy house pet, you probably won't notice the degradation in performance. They've been eating carbs for thousands of generations and have 28 times the amylase activity of wolves

That not truth . Some of them it ok

Dogs are omnivores not carnivores, Peanut butter additives are the issue. Not peanut butter itself so that’s a bit misleading.

I THOUGHT THEY MAKE A PEANUT BUTTER THAT IS SAFE FOR DOGS, I ALLWAYS THOUGHT PEANUT BUTTER WAS BAD AND HAVE NEVER USED IT FOR ANY OF MY DOGS, I WOULD BE INTERESTED TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS ON DOG SAFE PEANUT BUTTER

this is not correct information in this video. please people talk to your vet and don't trust shit on you tube.

Trader Joe’s has organic, no salt peanut butter. The only ingredient is peanuts. You’re welcome. It’s fine to feed this sparingly. 🥜

I’m a germaphobe, so don’t like feeding raw. Please let me know if I can feed my new rescue husky boiled chicken or ground beef with 1 scrambled eggs everyday?