Oats for dogs? - Page 1

Long story short, I am experimenting with cooking my own meals instead of 100% buying slop from my local fuel station.

I tried to make boiled oats and it was a disaster, the whole thing erupted out of the pot and made a huge mess.

I threw the pot outside because I wasn't going to try clean that shit. The dogs had a sniff and then hooked in and cleaned the pot, they loved it.

Soooo, the question is: if the dogs like it is there any nutritional value in feeding dogs some oats in their diet??

Sure they will like the oats but you need to consider oats a carb, a good carb but a carb they really don't need. How long did you cook them and what type of oats?? A more nutrient based carb would be quinoa (pronounced keenwah). Cook just like white rice but much better for the dogs and protein that is usable and healthy for dogs along with other nutrients. Cooks in less time than rice, if I use it for dogs I cook one cup of quinoa and 2 cups water about 15-20 minutes maximum time and cover and let steam until cooled. Very nutritious for yourself as well. You can mix quinoa with ground or whole meat chunks for a very good meal for them. I would use quinoa instead of oats but if you do add oats add to same pan as quinoa after cooking (basically raw oats) of just wet them instead of killing them with heat. JMHO. Nan

I know someone who had horses a few years ago. They had a hell of a time keeping their dogs out of the oats.

Nothing wrong with feeding them oats; rolled oats a good source of fiber and is often recommended as the carbohydrate in home-cooked diets that will be gentle to the GI tract [dogs with gastric ulcers, for example] and which have a high bio-availability value [dogs with chronic liver disease]. You can feed them whole oats, but expect there to be a bit more stool production since the hulls aren't digestible.

Can't keep dogs out of the pasture when there is oat grass growing (cover crop before pasture grass comes up). Also, back in the day when I researched homemade diets for a Chi with epilepsy, I remember reading about neuro benefits from oats. Nothing wrong with adding some oats once or twice per week. I have always just cooked oatmeal and given them maybe 1/2 a cup.

I don't feed oats to mine, had a pup get a bad reaction to eating porridge and came out in large lumps that took ages to go away.

MNJ

K, I learned how to cook oats without it going all over the oven top, easy really, you just don't have the heat on full.

So ya, I made a big bowl of oats and shared them with the pooches. Only difference was I put raw eggs in theirs.

My new thing now.