Sent to me by one of our U.K. supporters, here’s a great testimonial for home prepared pet food. Meet Daisy, Britain’s oldest dog that has never eaten commercial pet food.
From Express.co.uk…
“The centenarian canine tucked into some birthday cake to celebrate reaching the milestone – which her owner puts down to a diet of roast chicken and mashed potatoes, chilli and Chinese takeaways.
Although the little Jack Russell was the runt of her litter and spent her first two years as a stray, she has more than made up for her bad start since being rescued by Mark Barsby-Finch and family from Tewkesbury, Gloucs.
He said: “Daisy has never had a tin of dog food in her life. She eats exactly what we eat.“
Her favourite meal is roast chicken and mashed potatoes, but she’ll happily eat anything.
“She’s partial to a takeaway Chinese, and she loves a homemade chilli too, as long as it’s not too spicy.
“I wouldn’t dream of giving her scraps – I cook an extra portion of food just for her, and she eats before the rest of the family.”In dog years, Daisy is 22 and the family celebrates her birthday on the anniversary of the day they adopted her, February 21.
Although the oldest dog ever known in the UK reached the age of 26, Daisy is believed to be the oldest alive now. Mark added: “When we first adopted her, we had access to 40 acres of farmland, and Daisy used to be off out into the fields first thing in the morning, and reappear just in time for her tea.
“She spends most of the time sleeping now, but apart from missing a few teeth and being a bit hard of hearing she’s in really good health.”
Daisy was adopted from Cheltenham Animal Shelter.”
Yea Daisy! – may you have many more years of home cooked food. Thanks to Fiona for sharing with us.
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England does not have a rabies problem so they do not vaccinate. I do think over vaccination is a problem in the USA.
I have a stray we found 12 years ago, he has never eaten commercial dog food, I have cooked meals for him every day
chicken, liver, beef,fish, more or less what ever we eat without the sweets and extremely spicy items. I can honestly say he has never been sick, except for a leg injury since we had him. He’s not a small dog, he weighs 50 lbs. I would not get him vaccinated if it were not for the rabies law, and also we live very close to a dog park (next door) and I fear parvo etc.
My parents dogs ate food scraps and lived well into their teens, so there is something to be said against commercial dog food as far as I am concerned.
Anybody have a good (easy/fast) recipe for dog food?
Wonderful Article, except for one typo error, I think. It states that Daisy is 22 in “dog years” that would make her only 3-4 years old?
I think they meant in “human years” right?
I copied from the UK website – but yes – I think they meant human years. Thanks – didn’t catch that.