If I give Rufus homemade dog food, can't he live forever? Please?

The wellness trip of my dog Rufus started with what I now have an oxymoron: healthy kibble.

Just a few weeks after I had adopted him, Rufus with his first babysitters, my friend Jamie and every partner at the time, a famous country singer, stayed on weekends. Anyone who came to get my handful-sedum-small guy said that the singer informed me that the so-called healthy dog food, which I had shaped in ingredients (which he was most impressive in a grocery). Both were potential allergens for dogs, she said. You

Or even better, make his food like you.

I had visited her house once and was overwhelmed by the smell of meat – and you are a vegetarian! It turned out that it was a boiling boiler made of lambbone. “For the dogs,” they said.

This was in 2008. Dog food. Machinery Your own food for your dog would have been considered exotic. Maybe even a bit, um … overboard, a Unterdaker who is reserved for people, things like “My dog is my child”, or as my neighbor said, she gave two people to two people, Jackson was of course every dog.

Today, dog food (foods that are suitable for humans and are processed according to human food according to the same standards) accounts for $ 30% of the $ 44 billion a year in the United States, but back in the augs, none of the band mark gave this quality of the meal collie, Justfoodfordog or the dog's dogs. There was even. Overall, dogs athe kibble. And on the whole, this kibble consisted of grains.

In the same decades, the wellness industry – like human well -being – exploded at the national level of almost 2 trillion dollars. A number that is too large to behave, but to say that 82% of consumers have top priority. According to a survey carried out by Pew Research Center, 97% of dog owners consider the dog part of the family and 57% of women (43% of men) Just as much A member as a human member. It shouldn't be a surprise that the same people should project their wellness priorities onto their family.

“I will love you forever”

When I got Rufus, I wasn't really a dog man. (Who asks the question: Who did you get Rufus? Another stories for another time! He was, as you say in Mexico Perr-hijo, Or “Dogchild” and the idea of Rufus' inevitable death in no time. There are people of the lawyers whose death I cannot imagine, but the difference between the impending decline of a human lover and the dog companion is in one word.

People have long enough lifespan, coupled with anti-aging illusions (botox and hair dye!), Which we enable the thoughts of the indefatible to be taken. But with the average life of a dog between 10 and 13 years old, I know that I did it.

Dog food companies play in this fear in their advertising. The farmer's dog advertising with the title “Forever”, who launched the Super Bowl in 2023, records the life of a chocolate -Labrador puppy and a little girl, the girl as a woman and a mother who is the R&B song “Forever” (“I will be very pleasant.

The dog advertising of another farmer shows a voice votes with the inscription: “The average dog only lives 10. It is not long enough with the dog's dog.” The display essentially drives your dog our healthy, pre -pronounced food and he will live longer.

Rufus came into the world for 15 years in this manipulative marketing campaign. Besides, I didn't need to advertise to remember that my days with Rufus. Simple math told me that it was very likely.

What Rufus ate

In the meantime, it was in my responsibility that Rufus lived as long as possible, and to ensure that Rufus (I was grateful, that he was the relationship between relatives, who were divided with himself with empty plastic water bottle.) Toys feel as much as possible, and enjoy the yummest, healthy food that could eat a dog.

After learning about the traps of grains and boundaries of the Kibble, I am often cooled with the high temperatures as it was freed by all nutrients. I started to make Rufus to Makin. (Today there is a banner that promotes your home food. As long as we were in Los Angeles, Rufus has eaten together with the some custom additions.

First I mixed the meat with a freezer -dried vegetable mix for dogs. Like astronaut or camping food, it came in a bag – and it doesn't smell like any vegetables that I want to eat! So I look at the ingredients and with regard to sweet potatoes I first added the steamed or baked meat. I also added fresh broccoli because it is my favorite vegetables and it is so happy to be one of Rufus's favorite dishes. And I added the mixture that was luxurious; And the bone flour after a vet told me: “Although dogs were domesticated, their Gi tracts have not changed.” You have to eat bones.

I made a large amount of this mixture and in Pint-Siz containers with the name Rufus Hash. Rufus loved it and maybe just as important.

Despite my best efforts, Rufus died. After 14 years and five months he left this world in a glorious March -Durak -peak -Jacaranda season in 2021 in Mexico city, which we lived and lived at the time.

And that's the thing. Regardless of what we do, regardless of what we feed them, or in integrative medicine (including the case of Rufus, Reiki, Homeopathy, electromagnetic therapy therapy and acupuncture) despite the walks and the conversations and love that we give. But first they love us. And they live with us happily and on the way we show them that they are often so outrageous to us, often more Important than all two -legged people in our middle. We treat them like the precision and the family of the family they are. And tragically, that's the best we can do.

Adiós, my little Rufino. May they give pigs 'ears and calves' liver as you are. And can be your inheritance.

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