Feed Your Dog Fruits & Vegetables

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is Elise McMahon for Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about how to make your own dog food. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at canineheadstart.com. So we have covered protein sources and we have covered carbohydrates; let’s talk about fruits and vegetables. What kinds of fruits and vegetables can you add to your dog’s food when you are making your own dog food? Really it can be a lot of fun. I have got a couple of examples here; blueberries are an excellent anti-oxidant and you can use either frozen blueberries if it is not blueberries season. So you can always keep a bag or two of frozen blueberries on you. You can mix these in straight or you can actually you know, just at the top sprinkle them on the food. Another example of a fruit that you can use is mango, so again I have a frozen bag of mangoes. If it is not particularly fruit season where you are living do not worry about resorting to frozen food. These are mango chunks you can see them in here and again you can grind these up. You could mix it with another food type or you can feed it in large chunks. Another example of a fruit which a lot of dogs enjoy believe it or not, are apples. Apples are great for dogs you can again slice it up and throw it in the food. You can also puree it with some or the other foods you might be feeding. You can make it smoothie and mix that in with the food. So vegetables, carrots are great for dogs; very healthy and lot of dogs like carrots as treats. We will talk about treats later on. Carrots are an excellent vegetable to add in to your dog food. Zucchini, we have a green zucchini here. You can use other kinds of squash as well. Again another good food to put in your dog food let me just say with both of these types of vegetables if you are going to be feeding them raw, in other words if you are not adding them into food that you are going to be cooking, you would want to feed them grated up very finely to add to the digestive ability of the dogs, you want to grate these up very finely. Another vegetable, we have already touched upon this in the carbohydrate source are potatoes. This particular one is a sweet potato. Another excellent vegetable is pumpkin. I have a canned pumpkin here but you can use fresh pumpkin. This is a big time saver and for people, who do not have a lot of time, they may want to use canned pumpkin, but you could use fresh pumpkin as well. This is great especially if your dog is suffering from loose stools; you might want to add some of these in to his diet or her diet."