Teach Dog Lovers to Create Healthy Meals for Their Best Friends

Do you love to pamper your pooch?  Are you experienced in the kitchen, and skilled at mixing up a tasty treat or two for your beloved four legged friends?  Then you may be the perfect person to teach other dog owners how to cook for their dogs and puppies!  You could charge between thirty and fifty pounds per person, per class and have a class of between five and thirty students, depending on where the class is held and how many people you can accommodate.  Schools and community centres are usually excellent places to hold your classes, as most have large kitchens and lecture rooms and halls available for you to use.

Most pet owners are concerned with the questionable ingredients that commonly go into factory manufactured animal foods, such as chemical preservatives, artificial colours and flavours, as well as fillers and unpronounceable additives and odd animal parts, many of which lack nutrients and can even be dangerous to pets. 

It’s a major selling point for your classes that much of the meat bi-products used to create dog foods available at your average market are deemed unfit for human consumption.  The idea of a beloved animal consuming such foods is frightening indeed!  As loving pet guardians, your students will be concerned with providing the best, natural, most nutritionally complete and chemical-free diet to help their dogs achieve optimum health.

Your class will focus on providing a healthy diet with complete nutrition to achieve their dog's optimum health and happiness.  Be sure to familiarise yourself with the most recent nutritional studies, and you may want to have a printed reference page available to hand out to your students giving important nutrition information for them to take home. 

Your students should not only learn about new recipes to prepare for their pets, but they should also come away with the ability to make educated decisions regarding their canine's overall food and nutritional requirements. 

There are many websites and books available for pet food recipes, so your class can be fun and varied, and you may wish to create your own cook books and sell them to students or to use as incentives to join your class.

You may want to offer copies of dog food cookbooks for a small profit at the end of your class.  You might also consider filming your class, including question and answer sessions, then create a handy reference DVD for your students.  You can sell your CD to others who want to learn to cook healthier meals for their dogs but are unable to attend your class in person.  You could even make this DVD available online to reach a truly large audience.  A DVD will generally cost only about a pound or so to duplicate.  Therefore, once you have your instructional DVD created, making copies to sell on a website is a fairly simple process!