Filling Canine Stomachs
Filling Canine Stomachs
Do you love to pamper your pooch? Are you experienced in the kitchen and unafraid of pots, pans, and of mixing up a tasty treat or two for your furry friends? Then you may be the perfect person to teach other dog owners how to cook for their beloved dogs and puppies! You could charge between thirty and fifty dollars per person, per class and have a class of between five and thirty students; depending on what the class location can accommodate, (most schools and community centers have large kitchens available for such purposes).
Most pet owners are concerned with the questionable ingredients (chemical preservatives, artificial colors and flavors, as well as fillers and unpronounceable additives and odd animal parts) that go into commercially available, prepared dog foods. You may want to point out to them that much of the meat by-products used to create the dog foods available at your average market are deemed unfit for human consumption. The idea of a beloved animal consuming such foods is frightening indeed! After the recent pet food recalls, many of these animal lovers are more aware than ever of the critical need to control the diet of their four legged friends. As loving pet guardians, your students will be concerned with providing the best, natural, most nutritionally complete, chemical-free diet to help their dogs achieve optimum health.
Your class will focus on providing a healthy diet with complete nutrition to achieve their dog's optimum health and happiness. Be sure to familiarize yourself with the most recent nutritional studies and you may want to have a printed reference page available to hand out to your students with the most important nutrition information for them to take home. Your students should be able to not only learn new recipes to prepare for their loyal animals, but they should also come away with the ability to make educated decisions regarding their canine's overall nutrition. Their dogs deserve the best nutrition that your students can provide for them!
There are many websites and books available for pet food recipes so your class can be fun and varied. You don't like to eat the same thing for every meal and there is no reason your pet should either! While your class is primarily considered a 'cooking' class, many of your students will be happy to realize that preparing the optimum food for their dogs will often consist of mixing ingredients that will not be heated because the dog's digestive system benefits greatly by consuming raw, unheated foods! Although a nutritionally balanced diet for dogs must include some vegetables, fruit, and fiber, it is vital for your students to remember that canines are primarily carnivores; their diets should primarily include protein from meat sources. In addition, although they have a poor sense of taste, they have an amazing capacity for smells. This ensures that not all their hard work in the kitchen will go unappreciated!
You may want to offer copies of dog food cookbooks for a small profit at the end of your class. You may also want to film your class, including student questions, to create a handy reference DVD that you can make available to both your students and persons who want to learn to cook healthier meals for their dogs but are unable to attend your class in person. You could even make this DVD available online to reach a larger audience. A DVD will generally cost only about a dollar or so (or less!) to duplicate. Therefore, once you have your instructional DVD created, making copies to sell on a website is a fairly simple process!
Writing a cookbook of your own could be a great idea also, offer some of the recipes from your book to your students, then offer the full cookbook at a discount for them. Offer the cookbook at a discount for your students that choose to learn from your DVD too. Alternatively, you could offer it with the DVD as a package deal!
Resources:
www.dogchefs.com
http://dels.nas.edu
www.knowbetterdogfood.com
http://yummyhealthydogfood.com
http://dogloverstoolbox.com
www.i-love-dogs.com
www.xtaceecwc.com
www.barfworld.com
http://www.bellaonline.com/misc/searcha.asp?term=dog%20food
www.pamperedpuppy.com
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