Nutrition For My Dog
To give our own dogs the best food to fuel healthy lives with lots of adventures, while also being kind to the animals and environment from where that food comes, we discovered that we had to abandon making commercial purchases whenever possible in favor of making our own dog food, including meals, treats, chews, and whole food additions.
All of this research and trial and error we did to give our dogs the best, then became products we sell through The Light of Dog.
This page includes links to our products, and below that an extensive library of information we have published related to food and nutrition for dogs.
Resources To Feed My Dog
If you want to learn for yourself about healthy food that is kind to the animals and environment from where it comes from, please consider the following free and paid resources that we offer.
Our goal is to positively impact the lives of as many dogs and their families as we can, in part through our extensive library of video, infographics and text articles. 
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All of our articles, videos and infographics on healthy food:
- A Case Study: Stormy, the Mini Poodle and how a diet change helped change her behavior
- Week 12: Pool party, more play dates, continued training, more field trips
- Weeks 10 and 11: intro to new dogs, field trip, kiddie pool and new obstacles
- Week 9: pick up Zooka from the breeder in North Carolina and settle in at home in Colorado with our eating, exercise, training and sleeping routines
- Natural ways to de-worm a dog that have worked for us
- Week 6: field trip offsite, Puppy Party, new people and beginning clicker training
- Week 5: getting started on housetraining, crate training, recall (come when called) and eating a raw diet
- Week 4: Met a new dog, getting more outside time, beginning to wean pups off mom
- Week 3: Introduction to more toys, textures, sounds and goats’ milk
- Try To Avoid All Dog Products Made Outside of The U.S. Or Canada
- Be Wary of Dog Food Products That Use The Word “Natural” or Other Healthy-Sounding Words
- This dog food health tip will literally take you 20-seconds, maybe less
- Assess The Nutritional Value of Your Dog Food Using The Dog Food Comparison Worksheet Tool
- Dog Food Recalls Directory
- 2018 Farm Harvest
- How to buy canned foods for your dog
- How to rank dog food options, categorized from highest to lowest quality
- Legacy Family Farms
- Why dry kibble is bad for dogs
- Assess the nutritional value of dog food
- A quick way to help determine the quality of the dog food products you purchase
- Our dog food production and processing equipment at The Light of Dog Farm
- All About Nature
- Farm2Table Meats
- The Food Stack For Dogs
- How to purchase healthy chicken for your dog (and the humans in your family)
- How to purchase healthy beef for your dog (and the humans in your family)
- Training treats compatible with raw diets
- A handy guide to buying chicken (for dogs and humans)
- Important tips about preserving commercial dried dog food products
- A handy guide to buying beef (for dogs and humans)
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Grinding Vegetables and Fruits
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Keeping Accurate Weight Counts and Mixing in the Meats
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Feeding Whole vs. Ground Chicken
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Cutting and Grinding Meats
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Sharpening and Using Knives
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Preparing the Space
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Defrosting Frozen Ingredients
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Purchasing/Acquiring The Ingredients
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Pathogen Control And Cleaning
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Dog Food Ingredient Quality
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Additional Ingredients To Raw Dog Food
- Foods to avoid feeding your dog
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: The Four Core Ingredients To Raw Dog Food
- How To Make Raw Dog Food: Equipment And Kitchen Supplies Needed
- Making raw dog food
- The causes of disease and health problems in our pets and the one major thing you can do to help prevent them
- What goes into making commercial dog treats and tips on buying the healthiest ones for your dog
- The sourcing, production and packaging for Peak Power Dog Treats and how we do it differently from other dog food companies
- Why choose grass fed beef for your dog
- Dog food recalls and how to protect yourself
- What we feed our dogs
- What do you feed your dogs?
- Does your puppy seem to eat everything – grass, dirt, sticks, rocks?