This was in my inbox this morning from Dr. Andrew Jones - a great read that I wanted to pass along:

Good morning fellow pet lovers, and
generally all around nice people :-)

The whole food thing is VERY confusing.

What do you feed?

Kibble vs Canned?

Home Diets?

Raw?

The Pet Food Recall highlighted just how BIG and
UNREGULATED Pet Food Manufacturing is.

Who would have imagined that melamine made it's way
into many supposed PREMIUM Quality Pet Foods.

It *really* is hard to know what is BEST to feed.

SO here is my take on it.

1. Feed a quality, preferable holistic kibble-
but NOT exclusively and rotate brands.

2. Feed at least 50% canned to your cats

3. Consider incorporating Raw- I am feeding
my dog Lewis Raw once or twice a week

4. Make some diets at home- I am now doing this
at least once a week.

5. Feed a quality Dog Supplement.

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If you really want to pamper your pooch, here's a recipe to try:

Fish and Sweet Potato Recipe (based on a 75 lb dog)

Baked Sweet potato 4 cups
Cooked Fish, trout, rainbow 1 1/2 cups
Salad or cooking Oil, vegetable, corn 5 teaspoons
One A Day Multivitamin/multimineral Supplement 2 tablets
Posture caplet (600 mg elemental calcium) 2 1/2 caplets
Morton Lite Salt Mixture 1 tsp

Cook Protein, Carbohydrate and Vegetables.

These recipes represent the amount to be fed per day and can
be fed in multiple meals.

More than one day's worth of the food can be prepared ahead of
time and refrigerated for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 2 weeks.

Prior to serving each meal and after warming, add the appropriate
amount of supplement to the food.

Mix thoroughly. Heating supplements that contain vitamins can
destroy their effectiveness.

The amount of supplement(s) shown above is the daily amount.
Therefore, please divide the amount listed by the number of meals
given a day.