A brief history of dog food at the Home Made Pet Food blog.

In the 15,000 years since the dog has been domesticated, for all but the last 150 years, they have been feed a variety of grains, table scraps, pieces of meat and supplemental scavenging.



Around 1860 James Spratt put together a concoction of meat, vegetables, and wheat meal and began to sell it to the English huntsmen, for the first commercially available dog food.


In 1907 Englishman F.H. Bennett developed and began to market the infamous, Milk Bone dog biscuits.


At the conclusion of World War One canned dog food came on the market. By the end of World War Two pet food sales had reached the $200 Million mark.


By 1956 the extruded dog food industry began to hit the store shelves with bags of dry dog food. The pet food industry has grown to where it is to day at the $15 Billion dollar a year mark. With this growth has come concerns for the health of the pets eating the commercial product and an increasing interest in the process of Home Made Pet Food.

Thank you for visiting my Home Made Pet Food blog.

I want to welcome you to Home Made Pet Food blog.

The content of this site is geared to having access to the best possible recipe for pet and dog food. There are a few reasons for this:

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  First is the health issue of what is in the dog foods you buy in the store.
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  Second is the ability to save a little bit of money.
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  And finally it may be enable a few more people to hold on to there pets in these trying economic times.
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  Maybe by doing this a few more loving pets may be able to be kept by the loving owners in trying economic times.

Thank you for visiting my Home Made Pet Food blog.