Dogs First Power Paste 400g Frozen (Cooked)

Most agree DIY raw dog food is best because, regardless of quality, it’s impossible to actually know what your complete raw is made with – finely ground chicken carcass looks like chicken mince. Did they really put lamb liver in this?! How much of the power additions did they add?!!

For this reason, I mostly DIY for Duds. Power Paste is my creation and it was born out of pure necessity because, as most of us will agree, finding the meat and bone bits is easy enough. At a minimum, you can find all the beef and chicken parts you need in any supermarket.

The problem is always the tail-end ingredients, the various organ meats (some of which are simply not available in butchers in anymore eg spleen, pancreas, blood, hair!), lightly steamed veg and then all those little “power” additions that power up the mix, including sardines (for omega 3 but also a rare source of brains eyes!), wild berries and medicinal mushrooms, a variety of organic herbs & seeds (pre-soaked, of course) and some tooth-cleaning seaweeds (that’s right, at a functional dose no need for my beloved Canident with this).

In short, all the good stuff. Or, another way of looking at it, all the harder to find and significantly more expensive stuff.

I found all these bits and stuck it in a tub to save me hassle. Now I have a product in the fridge that I can add to literally ANYTHING and make a perfect meal out of it for Duds, as we show you below.

But it’s not just raw feeders Power Paste caters to…

Power Paste is ESSENTIAL for kibble feeders...
It’s hard for many pro-raw pet shop owners to watch their clients walk out with a bag of dry, especially the high carb variety. Now, they have a nutritious, meaty raw OR cooked topper for these clients, helping them take their first steps towards real feeding.

There are two critical scientific facts that we on this side of the fence are now painfully aware of (including the pet shop owners at the coal face above) but that sadly most kibble-feeders are not. The first is kibble is repeatedly found to be incredibly deficient in vital nutrients. Davies et al. 2017, published in Nature, found major nutrient deficiency concerns in the majority of “complete” kibbles tested in UK (n=177, including veterinary brands). In fact, 2 out of every 3 complete dry food products failed to provide the minimum nutritional requirements as set out by AAFCO (a staggering 94% of the “complete” canned failed, too). It should come as small surprise when other projects then find 60% of pets consuming these products are dangerously deficient in vital nutrients.

The other key point not highlighted to kibble feeders today is that every single study comparing dry and raw / home-prepared-fed dogs conducted to date (Jan 2024) , including two works published in Nature, has revealed that dogs fed real food appear significantly healthier (with less inflammation, less skin disease, less gut disease and less ear disease). Dogrisk, the research group in Helsinki who provided many of these works for us, shows us that just replacing 20% of the kibble diet with real food sets these changes in place.

The natural follow on question might be – if taking some kibble out, what should we put in? Well, guess what I’m going to say…?!

I see Power Paste as an essential topper for most-if-not-all kibble fed dogs, providing not only a lovely dose of fresh, readily absorbed, vitamins, minerals and fats, but also innumerable bioactive, anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory compounds found in the large range of organ meats and coloured veg but also the borderline-medicinal additions such as wild blueberries, seaweed and medicinal mushrooms, all of which are completely absent from most dry pet foods.

* Power Paste can/should make up at least 20% of their kibble meal per day but not much more than 50%. To get him used to it, start off slow, little bit one meal, bit more the next. More tips below.