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Informative documentary. Without a doubt, dry dogs are the equivalent of eating the same microwave dinner everyday, some are just more posh than others. However, I would recommend that if you consider homemade meals to think carefully about it. It is time-consuming and expensive (especially high-quality meat), and you have to be committed and do your research. The problem is that most of these "authorities" on homemade meals have turned the recipes into such complicated missions that you feel like you need to feed your dogs the nectar of the gods, and many people quit after a while. Also, in my opinion, I would not risk the raw diet unless you want to deal with things like tapeworm and host of other nasty stuff. Even human grade meat that you purchase for yourself. Every week, there is a new "must have" ingredient. Keep it simple, have a basic recipe, and change the meat and veg, but the core recipe remains the same. Calcium is vitality important unless you want to deal with diarrhea. You won't go to hell if you don't feed organic, I can't even afford to eat organic myself. Preparing a meal for Chihuahua vs. Great Dane is two completely levels as far as preparation, cost, and amount of food you are going to need (the reason I mention this is because of the complicated recipes out there). I go through 60 kg / 132.28 lbs a month for two large breed dogs. Mostly beef and pork, those novel proteins are hard to source where I live, and if you do find it, it is outrageously expensive. Chicken, I don't care too much for. Boil chicken and see how much meat you actually have left. A lot of brine is being injected. And I do give my dogs synthetic vitamins because I want to be sure they are getting everything, a carrot from the U.S.A. might not be the same of a country like Africa that usually has selenium deficiency in the ground. There are very few places in the world that you are dealing with virgin soil and water. It is what it is. "We live in Barbie world made of plastic...."