Hey guys, Today I’m going to answer the second most frequent question people ask me. The Best Food to Feed Your Dog.
Why Homemade Dog Food Builds a Deeper Bond
What should I feed my dogs, and what’s the best treat for them? We’re going to break it down into two categories. What keeps the body healthy, what keeps the stomach healthy, and the second one is treats. What keeps the Mind healthy? So, food and treats, let’s break it down, and we’re going to start with my dog’s favorite, because we get to cook it.
Rice and Ground Meat: A Simple, Satisfying Meal
It’s rice and ground meat is an add-on to the dry food that I feed them, and the reason why I love it and the reason why they love it is because I like to cook. It prepares it for them, buys it for them, so it has a lot of beautiful rituals.
I like to bring it in, it’s just like my mom cooking. I used to go to the market with her, and we would pick up whatever we were going to eat, and I saw her preparing and then I saw her feeding it to me.
So, I like that, ritual for me is my dog’s favorite is rice and ground meat, they love it, they know that, then every day they’re going to have that add-on and their nose goes crazy. They have to stay very calm, and they have to wait in silence for something. I do every feeding ritual. I don’t like to feed an excited mind.
Feeding Rituals That Nurture Calm and Trust
I like to feed a calm-minded, quiet dog because that is exactly what I want to nurture: patience and peace. I want to teach the heart that food is linked with silence, calmness, and patience.
The Mindful Feeding Method: Food as an Emotional Language
Anything that you make, and your dogs are seeing you preparing it, and your dogs are smelling it, and your dogs are waiting, uh, and you know personal zone is going to be the highest reward. The highest level of food that you can give is the top of the top, the alpha of the food, the leader of the food, because they saw you doing it.
They say they smell it, and then two to three days later, once you prepare it, they know that that food is for them, so they’re very eager to receive that food, plus they’re waiting for it and the smells. They take them to Paradise, right? So it’s their favorite food, it’s my favorite food to do because I see the level of Happiness they have is out of this world, right?
So, I like to make sure that my dogs are hungry and that my dogs are waiting for it, and of course, they enjoy it at the highest level of joy, calmness, confidence, and love. Joy, right, so it’s love joy, so for me, food is something that I give to the mind when the mind is calm, surrender to give them love and joy, and this is the highest of the highest well.
The Role of Dry Food in a Balanced Canine Diet
I have a good friend of mine who made food, I would say, like 20 years ago or more. We’ve known each other for. I think forever, right, and we both are pioneers, and what we do, and and and his diet helped me with daddy a long time ago.
When Daddy developed cancer, I was looking for somebody to help me because, you know, food is super important in treating cancer, and so from that point on, I became a super fan of this food, and this is the food that we feed here.
Minimal Ingredients, Maximum Impact: A Trusted Dry Food Formula
This is a dry food, this is a very simple ingredient, and it’s not a lot. I don’t believe food needs to have a lot of ingredients. To be the best food in the world, I like natural things, I like simple things, I like things that create this profound effect of healing of health, of anything that has to do with happiness, and for us.
Supporting Health with Simplicity: Skin, Digestion, and Longevity
This is the food that has helped our dogs to stay with good digestion, good skin, and good fur. They love it, and so for me, the fact that it helped me with that is, keeping life longer is just something that. I’m very loyal to it because I saw it work well.
Let’s Talk Treats: Food for the Mind and Behavior
Let’s go into the next category, which is treats, treats, as more for the mine, definitely without a doubt, you want to use the more smelly ones there, the more they have that punch and
Why Dogs Love Liver Treats
We have something that I enjoy very, very much, which is the liver treats, and remember, Li treats are just a little tiny pieces of it, if you don’t have to give too much.
Engaging Your Dog’s Nose with Liver Treats
Okay, just by opening the box, that’s a treat in itself. The nose goes into this euphoric feeling, and you want to encourage the nose to come to you. Where are you? There you go, you want to encourage the nose to come to you, you want the mind to say how much they want it. Then the dog, on his own, starts making his little movements for it, and then you reward the behavior that you want. The treat is more to entertain the mind to help the Mind learn something new, right?
When and How to Use Treats in Training
So, this is where you had a very short day with them, and you want to teach something new, and you want to make sure you drain. Mine a little bit more, and that’s when you come with Treats, but the treats for me, in my experience. They need to have the nose more than anything else, right, and again, when you use a liver, don’t use too much because some dogs are very sensitive in the stomach, and it’s honest.
It’s more like a lick, so it should be like a liver gets its nose, and peanut butter keeps its tongue working. Perfect to keep a dog in one spot, within the entertainment system. An entertainment moment, where the dog stays there for a long period. Remember, when you use treats, you don’t want to do it for more than 10 to 15 minutes at the most.
Treats as Occasional Rewards
Because it’s like an ice cream, it’s like a little dessert, it’s not a necessity, that’s why you don’t want to overdo it.
It you know you want to make sure it’s every once in a while, it’s a treat, it’s a surprise, it’s like it’s like a Christmas time right, and then again, you want to make sure that the do is smells, it yeah, and then he shows you how eager or how much they want it.
Fish-Based Treats: Why Dogs Go Wild for the Smell
- My second pick on the smells is anything that is fish-oriented, like the skin of a fish. I like to use these little fishes right here again. It’s not about giving them too much; you don’t want to give too much.
- It’s just to encourage the nose, don’t open it inside your house. This is Punch, a game you can play in an open area to train your dog to return to you or to search for an item.
- This is an odor that they love. They love the smell of fish and the smell of French Bulldogs’ pogs.
- They don’t have a long nose, so it takes a while for them to get into it. Look at that, yeah, yeah, you know, how many times just let him lick it, let him stay right there, and then they.
How do I get it? How can I make it mine? What’s the way to get it?
Treat Time Rules: Short Sessions, Big Mental Rewards
You want them to get into that motion of How do I get this treat right, the food. You don’t want the excitement, you know, with the treat, you do want excitement. So, look at the difference in the food.
I want the dogs to be calm,m surrend, er and with the treats, I want the dogs to be happy gol lucky, so don’t confuse, okay, you want food to be more in the calm surrender State.
Marrow Bones: The Most Primal Treat of All
I’m going to show you another treat that is ver,y very popular here with us. This is a tree that we use a lot here at the ranch. It is very Primal. It is the most Primal treat that we have here, and this is the marrow bone, the right is the knee of the cow.
Safety Tips for Raw Bone Feeding
- These guys right here have food. It’s a combination of food and it’s a combination of cartilage. It’s a combination of them, you know, with exercising the jaw, but at the same time.
- When I give this kind of food. I have to be very careful not to give them. When they’re too excited because then they start challenging each other.
- So the more bribes, the more food the more the more you can bring, the competition, you know,w to get the bigger peas or to eat fast and go get the other ones’ food.
- Because what we do here is we feed everybody at the same time. So it’s like a big family reunion, right,,t but at the same time we’re very mindful.
- Because this is a treat, but it’s also food, and it’s also Primal. So it’s raw, I like to give it to them raw. It’s just that I like for them to spend a little, at least 15 to 20 minutes, the smaller the dog, the more time.
- They’re going to spend, and by the time they finish, I mean they’re just dropping right, they’re just completely dropping, and also another uh another note for the treats, make sure you always do it after the walk right.
- So it’s exercise discipline affection, so food and treats are affection, and this is the biggest affection you can give between food and treats.
- Because this is the most organic, the most Primal, the most delicious a dog can get, this is what it looks like look nice, beautiful pieces of meat, the steel in the bone.
- So, it’s meat, it’s food, but this is how they finish right, look it’s it’s it’s almost like they bleach it, but it’s this. I don’t buy bones with bleach, and this is how it finishes.
- Look at the difference, so they spend a lot of time focusing on it um as I said, when you feed this kind of food and you have two or three dogs.
Safety Tips for Multi-Dog Treat Sessions
If you don’t trust them, just put a leash on each one of them so they can finish their food, pick up the bones or the leftovers of the bones, and then make sure that the dog is the command the moment you release them.
Now you take the leash off so that they can finish. They know that after they finish eating the bone, they just have to go and relax and just forget about it, right, because a lot of times. If they’re still too excited, they can go and try to compete with the other dog.
So it’s without a doubt. After this meal, my favorite thing to do is, without a doubt, another top top top treat that we have here, which is real real bones with pieces of meat, and this is something that.
We use them at least three to four times a week here at the ranch. Yes, we spoil our dogs, and this is one of the ways we do it. Again, we first do exercise, mental stimulation, on this is affection.
Feeding After Exercise: Channeling Energy the Right Way
We don’t just give them food so that they can stay quiet because, if we don’t drain energy and then we give more energy. We’re just going to intensify the problem, right, so food is energy.
We take energy first, and then we give energy in the form of treats or a form of food or in the form of this Prima, the most Primal food in the world, right, which is, you know, bones with meat.
Bully Sticks vs. Raw Bones: Which One’s Better?
Best Food to Feed Your Dog. So, the second favorite thing that they like or we like to give to the dogs here is the bully stick. Without a doubt, it’s a lot more expensive than I believe.
Is it or not okay, so it’s if you’re asking, hey, which one is less expensive? I would say the real bones are less expensive.
The True Cost of Treats: What You’re Paying For
Bully sticks, they’re pricey. They have a good price on it, but at the same time, they do their job well, and there are some Bully Sticks that have no odor, and most of the Bully Sticks have an odor.
If you’re giving it to your dog, don’t do it inside the house; it will make the place smell like a bully stick.
So if you don’t like the smell, I don’t like smells inside my house, and you know, here at the ranch are 43 Acres.
So I like to give them.. Sophia loves to grab them, and she just goes and hides and eats them by herself, so you’re going to see something very particular, very beautiful, very Primal when you give them this kind of a treat.
Watching Dogs Enjoy Treats in Their Way
They all go by themselves, and then they grab their food, it’s almost like a kid. Who doesn’t want to share an ice cream?
That’s how it looks, and everybody has their particular way of eating their little, their little treats, and this lasts at least like 20 to 30 minutes for little dogs.
For like a size like Ricky, Ricky will eat it in 10 minutes, you know, but at the same time is it’s plenty. That’s it again, this is just like at the end of the day, and you feel that your dog has a little extra energy.
And you don’t want them to go to sleep with that 10 20% of energy you just want to drain, then the bully stick, the bone will be a perfect way to completely drain the energy at the same time. show them how much you love them.
Conclusion: Feeding with Heart, Treating with Purpose
All right, pet parent, I hope you enjoy this natural, simple, and profound information that we share with you from the Dog Psychology Center. This is how we feed our dogs, here at the Dog Psychology Center. Sometimes we ask our dog to be silent, be patient, and then we give certain kinds of food if we want our dogs to learn new tricks. Or we want our dogs to enjoy being in a happy Golden State, and then we bring the treats. And so, I hope this information gives you a good sense of direction.
So you can give the protection that you need and the relationship that you want to have with your dog, trust, respect, love, with food, and with Treats. Have a good day, guys. I hope you enjoyed the Blog. where a chicken can sit down and enjoy uh Bob Bob being happy goak eating his bully stick.
FAQ’s
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What is the healthiest food to feed a dog?
Fresh or high-quality commercial food that’s rich in animal protein, contains natural ingredients, and is free from fillers or harmful additives. -
Which is the No. 1 dog food?
There’s no single “best” for every dog, but premium options like vet-recommended Orijen, Acana, or Hill’s Science Diet often top nutrition lists. -
What do dogs need to eat daily?
They need a diet balanced with protein, healthy fats, fiber, vitamins, and minerals tailored to their breed, age, and lifestyle. -
What is the best type of food for dogs?
Complete and balanced meals, whether dry, wet, or fresh, that meet veterinary nutritional guidelines and suit your dog’s specific needs.
