Nutrition Information
Complete and Balanced Meals Formulation Details
All nutritionally complete and balanced recipes in The Forever Dog Life meet the criteria for recommended allowances from the National Research Council (NRC). These recommended allowances are for growing and adult dogs and cats, meet a metabolic basis for specific activity levels and calorie consumption, and do not exceed extrapolated FEDIAF maximum nutrient requirements on a metabolic basis per day. The formulation software we used to create these recipes is the Animal Diet Formulator, which combines USDA and verified international food data to build a comprehensive nutritional database of ingredients, in collaboration with practicing veterinarians, board-certified veterinary nutritionists, pet food producers, and other industry professionals using up-to-date FEDIAF, AAFCO (Association of American Feed Control Officials), and NRC guidelines.
We used 2021 FEDIAF guidelines for all the recipes in the book as well as the additional 400+ recipes available at www.foreverrecipes.com. All recipes also meet AAFCO guidelines, excluding phosphorus for adult cats (opting for FEDIAF’s lower requirements). We used the lowest iodine requirements (AAFCO) for all adult cat recipes. All recipes were formulated in Atwater, on a caloric basis (not dry matter), using the following metabolic multipliers (K factors): 110 for adult dogs, 85 for less active dogs. Puppy feeding directions based on NRC 2006, page 38–39 and Table 15–2, using K factors of 210 (early growth), 175 (mid growth), and 140 (late growth). Cat and kitten feeding instructions are based on FEDIAF table VII-9, VII-10. Cat K factors: 52 (less active), 75 (indoor adult), 100 (outdoor adult), 169 (kitten early growth), 141 (kitten mid growth), 113 (kitten late growth). Nutrient losses during cooking were accounted for using USDA retention values.
For additional information on formulation details, watch our formulation video here.
HUNGRY FOR MORE? WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED!
If 120+ recipes in The Forever Dog Life weren’t enough, how about 400+ more, for less than two bucks (with part of your purchase supporting Paws For Change.
Why Are These Not In The Book
Publishers must keep book page counts to a reasonable number or books become too heavy and expensive to print, despite the pet world never having too many recipe variations, and always hungry for more.
To remedy this dilemma we could print volumes of additional recipe books, or make things simple (and far more economical) by putting hundreds of additional Forever Dog Life recipe inspirations and variations online, right here.
We contracted with our expert pet food formulators and veterinarians to provide over 400 additional variations of recipes in The Forever Dog Life, including:
- 100 additional recipes for puppies
- 90 additional recipes for adult dogs
- 95 additional recipes for less active dogs
- 104 additional recipes for cats
- 23 additional recipes for kittens
All 400+ of these additional recipe variations are available for $1.99 (yes, significantly cheaper than buying another cookbook) because we only had to pay our veterinary formulators to create these delicious extra recipes, but not pay to print them.
All additional online Forever Dog Life recipe variations are intended to be used in conjunction with the preparation and feeding instructions found in the Forever Dog Life book.
Happy meal making!
