Nope. My snakes prefer their food raw.
I have a dog with inflammatory bowel disease, and I’ve cooked his meals for him in the past - fortunately we found a dog food he could eat, because the homemade meals were quite costly.
I’ve also made special treats for the dogs on their birthdays - liver brownies, yum!
When my dogs Kate, and then years later Mike, were elderly and wouldn’t eat properly, I made a stew from a recipe I received from a friend whose step-mother worked with a Mexican Humane Society. This was the food they gave dogs that were doing poorly and wouldn’t eat. I’ve neever had a dog turn his nose up at it. I boil chicken leg quarters. While the legs cool I make rice with the stock and add potatoes and oatmeal and a little garlic. Debone and dice the chicken and add to the stew. Good over kibble as an enticement to eat, or as a meal for an ailing dog.
I rarely cook for myself, but Iwill cook if my animals are sick.
StG
I’ll pop Austen’s wet cat food into the microwave for 5-8 seconds to warm it up before mixing her crushed-up thyroid medication into it; she won’t take it if it’s cold, and it’s much more effective (and pleasant for us both) than trying to shove the pills down her throat.
When my other cat, Lucia, was sick last year and not eating, the vet gave me some recipes for things like chicken and baby-food rice to get her appetite going again.
Seven days a week.
Nine year old Siberian Husky.
As a puppy, she wouldn’t eat hard or soft dog food. Vet recommened bits of chicken or trimmed meat. I make skinless chicken breast boiled in water, or, lean hamburger, drained. Sometimes lean stew meat or lean stir fry. Either my wife or I cooks every night, so it’s no big deal to cook for Chloe.
She’s healthy, happy, never ill a day in her life, and she is loved.
Sibes Rock!
When we grill, we always make little mini-burgers for the dogs. I once tried to make homemade dog treats for them, but I’m a rotten cook. They were a bigger disaster than my peanut-butter shortbread, and that went down in history, even for me.
ltfire - Do you feed her only meat, our do you add veggies or kibble or something? I’d imagine a pure meat diet would be pretty expensive for a dog that’s not exactly small. Kate was a Dobe/pointer cross and Mike was a German Shepherd Dog.
StG
On the rare occasion I’ve been caught without cat food, I will make a warm egg flip for the little buggers. Yes, I know you’re not supposed to give cats milk, but every now and then won’t hurt 'em, and they go totally nutso over it.
My grandma used to bake a meatloaf every week for her toy poodle…for 13 years! That’s all he would eat. He’d eat a little bit of his dog food, but he could make a cup of dogfood last for a week, almost!
At my house, I will cook steaks for the dogs when we have steak, they will have chicken breasts when we have them, they get salads all the time, and I will slice up fresh tomatoes and celery for them everyday, too. They love their fresh veggies! It makes for great treats!
I don’t think there’s anything strange about cooking for parrots-- you basically have to, since you can’t just let them eat kibble and seeds.
Murphy (Jardines Parrot) gets bits of a kind of cornbread made with lots of brocolli and sweet potato-- lots of vitamin A (I can send you a recipe! what kind of parrot do you have?). He also gets a pilaf made from pasta, wild rice, wheat berries, garbonzos, cous cous and whatever else is around. He like sweet potato pie, too, but I don’t know how to make it so I’ve just incorporated the sweet potato into the cornbread. He likes scrambled egg, so I give him some whenever we have eggs with breakfast.
OMG … I thought I was the only one that did that ! Bigger burgers for the Setters , teeny ones for the Papillons ! So glad to know I am not …
Anna
Yea I cook for my dog. I buy those big packs of chicken legs with thighs attached, put it into a big stock pot, add a bit of rice or barley, garlic, whatever veggies I have (usually frozen) and let it simmer for a few hours. Then I put it in individual baggies, freeze them and warm them up individually for my dog’s supper. I have to mix it about half and half with dog food though (or else he can’t SH*T, the dog food seems to keep him regular). Works for us. I don’t have a dog bugging me all night for food and it’s really not much trouble. When my daughter was little she used to say she wanted Bentley’s food for supper cause it smelled so good. Some nights he ate better than us (minus the dog food of course).
The Neville kitties love hard-boiled egg whites. I’m glad to hear we don’t have the only cats in the world who like eggs. I think we do have the only cats in the world who like tofu, though.
we have an amazon and a killer [http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/TofuAndToeShoes/my%20pets/catsjul19013.jpg]quaker. (sorry for the ugly bars. He looks like he’s in jail… because he’s a MURDEROUS BIRD.)
I’d love the recipe! and I’m sure Paco and Cecil would as well. And if you’ve got the recipe for the pilaf as well and you really wanted to share with me, I wouldn’t object. 
damn my coding!
our evil evil quaker looks like this.
I don’t cook specifically for him, but my cat has mastered using the unbearbly-cute-cat look and often guilts me into giving him some of whatever I’m eating. He’ll eat pretty much anything except vegetables, and has an unnatural fondness for bread. :dubious:
After all the kids moved out, my parents started letting the cat join them at the dinner table. She has her own place setting, and my mom cooks her her very own little hamburger, chicken leg, etc. Before either of them starts eating, they cut the cat’s meat into tiny pieces and serve her first. She gets whatever they’re eating, whether it’s meatloaf or filet mignon.
The odd thing is, my parents don’t realize this is unusual anymore. I recently brought some friends home to meet my parents, and Mom made a really nice dinner. And, even though we were crowded around the table, the cat still got her own place and her own piece of pork loin.
Meat only. Also a canine multiple vitamin-Vet approved.
I’ve looked at the prices of hard and soft dog food, and I’d be spending way more on that, plus, some of the ingredients listed on that stuff, well, I wouldn’t give it to a dog.
My butcher sells skinless chicken breasts for $1.59 per pound. I measure out one pound per day, and that’s all she gets or wants. She is 68 Lbs., and that’s where the Vet says she should be. I run her every day, rain or shine, so I guess that keeps her svelte as well.
We do basically the same thing. Meat on sale is less money than canned dog food. Our two elderly dogs are in excellent health.
I did when my Shepherd was still alive. She had renal failure and couldn’t have protein [which dog food is high in], so I had to fry lots of bacon and use the fat to flavor her bread and rice and vegetables. I had to put her down earlier this year, so it’s back to high-end dry food for the two we still have.