Home-made growth food to heal Bella's fractured skull

Bella was a very poor eater despite being underweight, having parasites and being a stray.

She apparently found food in garbage pails and in plastic bags on the street and getting her to eat nourishing food was a challenge. She didn’t like dry dog food but it was critical that we get her to eat it ASAP because it was high nutrition and nutrients were needed to heal Bella's fractured skull. Helping her heal aling was critical to keep spinal fluid from leaking into her skull and enlarging her head. Vets recommended we do whatever would make her grow ASAP by giving her all the food and water she wanted and that meant powerful nourishment was required. A very beautiful mom and pop pet store…the old fashioned kind…came to the rescue with advice, free food, samples, etc. Issue was as mentioned above: Bella did not like dry food, in fact, she really doesn’t like any kind we tried until I replaced the little bit of canned food that really wasn’t much of an incentive with the following:

 

Bella’s Wonder Full Gourmet Growth Food

Ingredients:

7 quarts of water
5lbs of dark meat chicken with livers, hearts etc if left on the thighs and legs
2 very large sweet potatoes diced with the skin on-washed
4 stalks of celery diced (with the leaves on)-washed
One bunch of fresh carrots with 4 tops and leaves on (do not chop the leaves-you will remove after cooking)-washed
6 large gloves of garlic cut in half (remove after this is cooked)
1 bunch of parsley chopped or cilantro-washed

Boil the chicken alone for one hour on medium/high heat-COVERED-less if it is easier because everything will be cooked again together later. This can be boiled frozen but takes longer, of course

Take the chicken out with a slotted spoon and allow to cool.

Add the other ingredients and cook until veggies are medium soft; please leave it covered while it cooks. We want the nutrients in but we want ingredients cooked well; when you are dealing with recovering animals you don’t want to give anything raw as if their immunity if compromised and parasites are present in the food, you will double or triple your issues with a fragile animal. All changes should be cleared by your vet and done slowly, of course.

*Remove the garlic and the carrot leaves when this is done as there is evidence in the literature that says while garlic tastes good, the garlic itself may not be all that great for dogs so please remove it. The carrot leaves are very nutritious but don’t feed the leaves just let the food take the nutrients and toss out the leaves to be certain.

Meanwhile, debone the chicken once it is cooled and dice into very small pieces. Bella, being smarter than the average bear, quickly picked out the chicken if it was too big and left everything else. So we had to shred everything making it impossible for her to pull out what she liked.

Simmer everything together cover until everything is soft. This replaced the incentive canned dog food mixed with her dry dog food and we did it very slowly so not to upset her digestive tract. And, in a pinch, since everything above is human quality, help your self to a bowl of Bella’s Wonder Full food. It’s great.

We also added ½ a hard boiled egg to her food 3 times a week. The result was a startling 14 pounds of weigh gained in about 5 weeks and accelerated bone growth. No more fractured skull.

Remember to add a very small amount for 3 days, then a little more for 3 days then a little more for 3 days until you are equaling about a half of cup of this soup to any great dry dog food…please DO NOT buy your dry dog food in an ordinary supermarket when you are supporting a sick or injured dog nutritionally. Please check with your vet for a professional recommendation. My vet said, “Any good puppy food” but we discovered that they are not all created equally.

(CAUTION: It’s really important to make dietary changes slowly and consult your vet on diet changes or A-N-Y change. We got the vets advice when they said give her as much food as she wants when she wants it…this was the only way we could make her a hungry puppy for what was good for her and not coming out of a garbage bag.)