satin balls

[meltoadhall]

the american doggy sites talk about satin balls to build up skinny dogs and give them a shiny coat. the recipes have meat and eggs but also talk about molasses and gelatin and total cereal.
does anyone in the uk know a similar recipe ( if you have heard of them) with ingredients i can get here.

[pmjblue]

tripe is the best thing to put on weight. if you want a shiny coat try Restore or kernelcote from stock nutrition
http://www.collienet.com/
http://www.collienet.com/trade%20ads%20from%20 903/stock_nutrition.htm

[meltoadhall]

tried tripe, nearly threw up from the smell, so I'm really trying to find an alternative.
i dont want to add chemicals to his food but use a natural option. thanks anyway tho

[lankeela]

It is so difficult to get the balance right when making up your own recipes, which is why I always prefer a commercially prepared good quality complete food. There are foods for all life stages, and I know they have all the nutritional requirements, and my dogs look good on what I feed (Eukanuba) so why change?

Occasional treats of either cooked or raw meat such as chicken wings are given, but I do not think on their own they provide enough balance.

[lankeela]

You can get tripe from Anglian Meat Products which is prepacked and frozen, either in mince form or free flow cubes. This does not smell very much, and if you put it in a contained with a lid on to thaw out you won't smell it at all.
Most pet supermarkets stock it, or they do deliver all over the country if you want to buy in bulk.

[pmjblue]

I feed Hills which my girlies do well on, have used it for 16 years - but had a very fussy dog, who was thin, and tripe went through him, so gave him rice pudding for supper!

[Snappy]

Hills and eukanuba? My sympathy to your dogs!

[Snappy]

http://www.uncaged.co.uk/petfood.htm

http://www.iamscruelty.com/

[lankeela]

Please try and come up with a new story snappy, these have been doing the rounds for years, and have been discredited time and again.

[meltoadhall]

thank you for all your answers, but i still need a uk recipe for satin balls.

[Snappy]

Discredited by who? the companies themselves? That'd be right!! Fine, if you're happy to feed your dogs such crap from unethical people but im certainly not!

[meltoadhall]

excuse me, recipe please - go start go own thread!!!!!!

[lankeela]

1 lb ground beef
1 8 oz pkg cream cheese
1 jar all natural peanut butter
1 jar (smaller of the sizes) wheat germ
1 doz egg yolks
1 cup or so of flaked oats soaked in heavy cream

Mix up, form balls, freeze, feed as treats or food supplement.

[meltoadhall]

thank you much appreciated :)

[pmjblue]

sorry meltoadhall, perhaps I am opening a can of worms, but am interested to know what is wrong with feeding Hills or Eukanuba. My dogs are fed Hills, but supplemented by chicken or beef, both fresh from the butcher, cooked with pasta and vegetables so they have some interest. My last two dogs died at aged 14, so cant see what wrong it did them. My present girls have wonderful gleaming coats, so something must be right? Snappy, what do you feed your dogs out of interest?

[lankeela]

I suspect the objectins are less to do with the contents of the food and more to do with the so called 'unethical' treatment of the animals used in the formulation of the foods.

I would venture to suggest that people have been brainwashed by the 'so called' ethical animal rights group PETA, but if you read my thread on this a bit further up, you wlll see just thow ethical PETA's treatment of animals in their own care really is!