Question: If my wife home cooks for our dogs which she does. And she is using the halo vita-mineral mix is that enough vitamins and minerals for our pet’s?

She use’s the recipe for spots stews with chicken and turkey and lamb meat she does change the meat and she does use organ meats. I just want to know if this is really good for our pets, or should we use kibble?

Answer: Thanks for writing. Glad to hear you are making the recipes at home. You can meet all of your dogs’ needs with these recipes and there is no need to feed dry kibble.

If you are using the Vitamin Mineral Mix daily you will be supplying an adequate amount of essential nutrients. Make sure you do not add the vitamin supplement during cooking, but to the individual portion for each pet–right before feeding.

Hope that helps.
Dr. Donna J. Spector

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FOX40 in Sacramento just ran a terrific segment showing author Tracie Hotchner mixing up a fresh batch of Halo Spot’s Stew, live on air! You’ll recognize the amazing ingredients that characterize our flagship recipe.

As part of a PETCO promotion, Hotchner does a fabulous job educating the audience on the benefits of natural pet food.

Click over to our News page for the clip!

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If you haven’t joined the conversation yet on Twitter, you’re missing a lot of fun – and some great information distributed in easy-to-digest form via text message or online.

Here’s a recent conversation I really enjoyed.

Nightline — yes, the TV show — asked its Twitter followers, “What is the craziest thing you’ve seen for sale on QVC?”

Juaus4me (a woman named Jennifer Ann who follows Nightline on Twitter) responded, “craziest thing on QVC Ellen D selling Halo food and her co host was eating it ….OH YUMMIE.”

If you didn’t catch that on QVC, it made for great television! You can see a clip of QVC host Carolyn Gracie eating Halo here. This was a bit controversial when it happened – until QVC watchers started defending Carolyn because, in fact, she didn’t eat anything they wouldn’t eat!

I couldn’t help but join the conversation. So my Tweet was, “Hey @juaus4me and @Nightline – eating Halo’s not all that crazy; Read the ingredients (vs. human soup) http://www.halopets.com/soupwars.”

Next, Zissy4PetTalez sent my message to her 848 followers (know as a “re-Tweet” or “RT”).

FurandFeathers, an animal lover named Sue Giannosa, chimed in saying, “Crazy, no way. My dogs love that food. They lick the spoon when I put the Dream coat on their food also. Ingred. Are all natural.”

Rachelle Caruso, Twitter ID rlcaruso, responded, “my dogs LOVE Halo! I think they eat better than Me! Halo stew is way better than anything in the human aisle based on ingredients.”

If you’re reading this, you probably sacrifice to make sure your pet is well taken care of, and know where Rachelle is coming from!

Ellen DeGeneres, an owner of Halo, lays out a buffet of different foods for her cats at every meal so they don’t get bored, the animal lover tells TV Guide.

Also, her pets play favorite: their poodle Mable loves Portia, their other dog, Wolf, loves them both, and one of the cats loves Ellen best. Or at least she likes to think that, Ellen says.

Check out the interivew.