Yes. Here are my general recommendations for dogs with cancer.

For cancer you want less than 25% of calories from carbs. If you look at any recipe page in my cookbook, you’ll see a pie chart that has 3 wedges marked P, F and C. P = protein, F = fat, C = carb. That pie tells you where the calories are coming from in that recipe. So for cancer, you would pick any adult recipe that has a pie chart with a small “C” wedge (ie the C wedge should be less than one quarter or 25% of the pie). R12, R13, R14, R15, R18, R21, R22, R23, R24, R25 would all be good choices.

The other thing we do for cancer is we increase the omega-3 oils and reduce the omega-6 oils. Omega-3 oils are fish oils. Omega-6 oils are plant oils, for example the safflower oil in my recipes is pure omega-6 oil. You want to keep the total oils the same, but change the relative proportion increasing omega-3s and decreasing omega-6s.

So as an example, if you picked Adult 5 (R15), which is a good choice for cancer because the C wedge is small, you can see that this recipe has 8 tsp of safflower oil (omega-6 plant oil) and 2 tsp of salmon oil (omega-3 fish oil), and has an omega-6 to 3 ratio of 6.7 to 1 (listed towards the bottom of the nutrition table). You would keep the total oils the same (10 tsp) but skew it more towards omega-3s. So you could feed 5 tsp of each type of oil, or 4 tsp of safflower and 6 tsp of fish oil.

If your dog is experiencing cachexia (muscle wasting), I have a high calorie recipe specifically designed to treat cachexia. This type of recipe is not always necessary – it’s only recommended if your dog starts to lose weight and muscle. That recipe is provided in my MARCH newsletter which can be downloaded here.

Alternatively, for cachexia you could also feed one of the high calorie recipes in the book (R56-R59). But only feed these high calorie recipes if you are seeing weight loss, reduced appetite or muscle loss.If you want to offer a few extra benefits, there are a couple of extra things you could do. Tumeric and ginger are clinically proven to be helpful in people with cancer (not proven in dogs but no risk). You could add a small pinch of each to every meal. Green tea is also helpful, so you could make some green tea, let it cool and add some to each meal. Most other clinically proven ingredients for people with cancer are not healthy options for dogs (do not feed onions, garlic, grapes/wine, dark chocolate to dogs). .