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Your dog already tells you what he needs. Nobody ever taught you how to read it.
Here's what almost nobody explains when you decide to cook for your dog: it was never just about "fresh food good, kibble bad." Two dogs can eat the exact same beautiful homemade bowl and one of them thrives on it while the other gets itchier, gassier, and more miserable by the week.
That's not because one of them is broken. It's because they're built differently.
In Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine (TCVM), every animal has a constitution — a body type, a temperament, a way of running hot or cold or damp or dry. And food is either working with that constitution or quietly working against it. The hot, itchy, red-bellied dog does not need the same bowl as the anxious, skinny, can't-settle dog. Feed them the same thing and you'll help one and frustrate the other.
So that's what I do here. I figure out which one your dog is, and then I hand you the recipes that actually fit him.
The scary part is mine. The easy part is yours.
Let me guess what's stopping you.
You think cooking for your dog costs a fortune.
It doesn't. When I priced out commercial fresh delivery for my own pack, it came to almost $3,000 a month. Three thousand. I about fell over. What I actually spend cooking it myself — for three giant breed dogs and one large breed dog — is $120 to $140 a week. That's just what's in the bowl, not the extra treats I make on top of it. Four dogs that size, and it still isn't close.
You think you don't have time.
I promise you do. This is a crock pot or a roaster pan, not a stove you stand over. I prep everything the day I get home from the grocery store — and most of it needs no prep at all. Everything goes in the freezer in bags, and it goes into the pot frozen solid. Even the vegetables. It's cooking low and slow for hours; it does not care that it went in as a brick. Start to finish, my hands-on time is about thirty minutes a week.
You think you'll get it wrong and hurt him.
This is the real fear, and it's the honest one. It's also the entire reason this service exists.
The hard part isn't the cooking. The hard part is knowing what to cook, how much of it, and what has to go in the bowl alongside it so the food is actually complete. That's the part that keeps people up at night, and that's the part I do for you. You just cook.
Two doors in. Pick the one that matches your dog.
THE HOUSE RECIPE
THE HOUSE RECIPE
THE HOUSE RECIPE
For healthy dogs.
I identify your dog's TCVM constitutional element, then build you three recipes matched to that element and portioned to your dog's exact weight — plus the supplement guide that makes those bowls complete.
This is the door for most dogs. Including the itchy ones, the yeasty ones, the gassy ones, the ones carrying an extra fifteen pounds, the anxious ones, and the seniors slowing down. None of that disqualifies you. Honestly, that's most of who walks in here.
What you get:
- Your dog's TCVM constitutional element, identified and explained in plain English — what it means, why it matters, what to watch for
- Three complete recipes built for that element
- Exact portions calculated for your dog's weight, not a chart you have to interpret
- Calories per batch and per serving, done for you
- The supplement guide — what your dog needs, how much, and why, dosed to his weight
- Storage, batching, and swap notes so you're not locked into one grocery run.
THE SPECIAL ORDER
THE HOUSE RECIPE
THE HOUSE RECIPE
For dogs with a condition their vet has diagnosed.
Some conditions change the actual nutrient math — how much phosphorus, how much fat, how much protein, and what has to come out entirely. I can't eyeball that, and I won't guess at it. So for these dogs I work from your vet's records and recent labs, and I build the recipes around the numbers on the page.
This is not the fancy version. It's the version for a dog who needs something out of the ordinary. If your dog is healthy, The House Recipe is genuinely the right door and you're not missing anything by walking through it.
What you get:
- Everything in The House Recipe
- Your dog's records and current bloodwork reviewed before a single recipe is written
- Recipes and portions built around the condition, not adapted after the fact
- A supplement guide adjusted for the condition — because some standard supplements are wrong for some dogs
- Notes on what to re-check, and when
⚠️ Required, no exceptions: current medical records and recent bloodwork. If you can't get both from your vet, I'm not the right fit for your dog right now — and I'd rather tell you that up front than take your money and guess.
An honest word about itchy dogs
I need to say this plainly, because a lot of people in this space won't.
Feeding for your dog’s TCVM constitution gives us a structured way to explore whether the bowl is part of the pattern.
Here's what I mean. I have two dogs in my own house who prove both sides of it. Zeus had allergies that are now completely gone — controlled by nothing but his diet. Same kitchen, same care. My girl Rhea is flaring right now, in the summer, because hers are environmental. It's what's growing outside. No bowl on earth fixes that.
So here's the honest promise: if we feed your dog for his TCVM constitution and the itching clears, wonderful — it was the food, and now you know. And if it doesn't clear, that's not a failure. You've just eliminated the single biggest variable, and now you know it's something else. That's real information you didn't have before, and it's worth having.
Most people spend years switching proteins and never actually rule food out. You'll rule it out in a few weeks.
And if it turns out it isn't the food
Then you've got a new question: okay, so what is it?
That's what my Constitutional Analysis is for. That one goes past the bowl entirely — your water source, your lawn, the pollen where you actually live (not your state, your town), your laundry detergent, your cleaners, your candles and plug-ins, your carpet powder, your dog's shampoo, the flea and tick products on him. Everything touching your dog all day that nobody thinks to question.
The Constitution Kitchen answers what do I feed him. The Constitutional Analysis answers what is going on with him.
Start where it makes sense to start. A lot of people find the food is the whole answer. And if it isn't, the door's right there.
