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Bali International School

Personal Project

Name = Hajime Harada

Name of supervisor = Walsh Tess

Grade 10 A

Table of contents

Introduction 3

My plan for creating my product is 4

Research about my product 7

Unhealthy food for dogs 7

Taste that dogs like 8

How to know if a dog is missing vitamin in his diets 9

Tips for making dog food 9

Unusual ingredient which are been used for dog food 9

Research about my Area of Interaction 10

Research for New Ideas 10

Analysis of process and the outcome 10

1. Achieve my goal? 10

2. Focusing on an area of interaction 11

3. Inspiration 11

4. Planning 11

5. Research 12

Creation 12

Evaluation of my product 13

Conclusion 15

Bibliography 17

Internet 17

Books 17

Newspaper Article 17

Interview 17

Appendices 18

Appendix Ⅰ 18

Appendix Ⅱ 18

Appendix Ⅲ 20

AppendixⅣ 21

Introduction

1. The goal of my personal project is to help make my dog a healthier animal. The reason why I chose to do this project is because by looking at the news paper, and my own observations there are many dogs roaming the streets of Bali sick or dying because of unhealthy diets. This really bothers me as I am an animal lover. I decided I wanted to do something about this, at least on a personal level. I had a dog which got ill and I wanted to prevent that from happening to my new dog (Appendix 1). So I decided I would focus on bringing good health to my new dog, bringing good well being to at least one dog on the island

2. I have chosen Health and Social Education as my Area of Interaction. The AOI Health and Social Education is all about educating the whole person and preparing people for having a mentally and physically healthy life. Furthermore, the AOI is about developing a sense of responsibility for student’s own health and the health of others. Although this AOI is usually about humans, I believe it is all right to apply it in this case to my dog because by doing this project, I am going to learn about how to help dogs be healthy. I will have to educate myself in the area of nutrition and dog taste buds. This project is related to the AOI’s key question ‘how can I look after myself and others?’ because by making the dog food for my dog, it would be making my dog healthier, and making me more aware of how to help him. also I had a dog which got ill, an I would like to stop my new dog from getting ill. This is encouraging me to look after another being.

3. To achieve my goal I am going to research dog nutrition, find important ingredients, create a several test samples of dog food, and check my dog’s satisfaction and health. I will create the healthiest, tastiest dog food I can. Then I will share the recipe with my friends and family.

My plan for creating my product is

| | |Date |

|Step 1 |Research about dog nutrition, good food for dogs, and some poisonous|15/Nov/08 |

| |food for dogs | |

|Step 2 |Decide on appropriate foods and collect them |15/Jan/09 |

|Step 3 |Create the dog food |01/Feb/09 |

|Step 4 |Evaluate the product by testing it on my dog. |20/Feb/09 |

|Step 5 |Make any improvement necessary and maintain healthy diet for my dog. | |

I will need to find out the following things to achieve my plan:

• What is poisonous food for dogs?

• What kind of tastes do dogs like?

• Is there anything which I will need to be careful about when I make dog food?

• Any tips for making dog food?

• How would you know if a dog's missing vitamin in his diets?

• Any unusual dog food ideas, which are being used?

• How do you control the weight of dogs?

Description of process

|This is what I did to create the product |Date |

|First thing which I did in order to make the product is to research about dog nutrition and some poisonous |12/Nov/08 |

|food for dogs from internet, book, newspaper, and interviewing. | |

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|The reason why I researched this topic is because by knowing what the dog nutrition is, I will be able to | |

|learn what kind of ingredients I would need for the dog food which I am going to make. | |

|To find this information, I mostly interviewed the vet because by asking the vet, I thought that I would be | |

|able to learn most of the things I need to know about nutrition because by being a vet, they would need to | |

|know the nutrition for common animal. | |

|Another way, which I used to find out about nutrition, is from internet. The reason I chose to use internet,| |

|is that internet is one of the fastest ways to find the exact information that I want. | |

|In order to find out the poisonous food for dogs, I used books and newspaper article. The reason I used | |

|books is because I had a book about dog’s health (McGreevy, Paul), and I knew that I would be able to find | |

|the poisonous food for dogs from it. I thought that it was a reliable source because of the qualification of| |

|the author and it matched with my internet sources on all piece of the information. The reason, which I | |

|chose to use the newspaper, is the same reason, which is because it is reliable source. | |

|What did I do: |27/Dec/08 |

|I decided and collected the following foods which are good for my dog | |

|・Liver | |

|・Beef | |

|・Fish | |

|・Milk | |

|・Fermented soybean | |

|the reason I chose these ingredients are from my research, I was been able to know that one of the most | |

|important thing for dog’s health is to have meat, and by having mile, it will add more protein in to the | |

|food. The reason which I chose to put fermented soybean is because one of the vet taught me that dogs does | |

|not like it much, but it is good for health. | |

|I then collected the ingredient for my dog food. The ingredient I have purchased is fresh liver, fresh beef,| |

|fresh fish, and dry milk, wheat germ, fermented soybean, and honey | |

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|What did I do: |28/Dec/08 |

|Using the ingredients I had gathered I cooked liver, beef, and fish cookie. The recipe for this is in | |

|appendix Ⅲ. | |

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|The reason, which I have made three types of cookies, is because I thought that some dogs would like one | |

|more than other. Furthermore, by adding the fermented soybean, I was been able to predict that the cookie | |

|would not taste as it was meant to be, so I used three type of base in order to find out if there are some | |

|combination which would not change the taste. | |

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|The product did not become as I wished it to be because my dog did not eat it, and it was producing unknown | |

|smell which I predicted that it was because of the fermented soybean. | |

|What I have done; |30/Dec/08 |

|I made the dog try my dog food that I have made, and evaluated what happened. (appendix Ⅳ) | |

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|I believe that this step did not go well because I was only been able to make the food which is healthy, but| |

|the food which dogs doesn't want to eat. Furthermore, during this step, I needed the help of vet to make the| |

|dog food because I was about to make some big mistake, which would have made the dog, sick. | |

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|The reason, which I did, this is because by doing this step, it is going to be helping me make the overall | |

|product, which I wish to make. I believe that this was one of the most important steps, which I needed to do| |

|because from this step, the final product will be produced. | |

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|As the evaluation of my product, I believe that I would really need to improve because I think I have been | |

|able to make the food, which is healthy, but I choose the food that dogs do not like, so my dog did not eat | |

|much. Because he did not eat it, I would need to change the food to some thing. It is pointless making the | |

|healthy food, which is not going to be consumed. | |

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|I believe that the reason, which my dog did not eat, the dog food is because I have added the fermented | |

|soybean. By adding this ingredient, I was been taught that the dog might not eat it because of the smell, | |

|but I still put this ingredient because the vet taught me that it is healthy at the same time and I thought | |

|that my dog would eat it anyways. | |

|What did I do; | |

|The next step was to improve my product, but I was not been able to do this step. | |

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|The reason I was not been able to do this step because I did not have time. By not being able to do this on | |

|time, I will not be able to show the complete product which I healthy and tasty, but I believe that by | |

|having these information, I will be able to improve it on my own. | |

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|The reason I want to do this step is that by reflecting the work, which I have done, and evaluating the | |

|points which I will need improvement with, I will be able to make my product more and more efficient. | |

|Furthermore, by improving the product, soon it will be the healthy and tasty dog food, which I can continue | |

|to feed the dog with. | |

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|If I had done this step, I would have change the ingredient because by adding the fermented soybean, I have | |

|made the food, which my dog did not eat. If I were to improve, I would just leave the fermented soybean | |

|because even by making the cookie without it, it would be healthy enough for the dogs. | |

1. This was the best way to create my product because by researching the nutrient of the dog, it helped my to create a healthier food for my dog. By evaluating my product and finding ideas for improvement, it would make me able to find the better recipe to make the dog food, which is both healthy and tasty

2. Other ways that I could have used to make my product is to make the dog food first and test it to the dogs and improve it and giving it out again. The reason, which this could work, is that by testing with some random food, it would make me able to make this experiment as research because by trying the food, it would show me the effect of having that food. The reason which I did not use this method is because it is going to be cruel to the animal, furthermore, by doing this method, it has high chance of making the dog sick

Analysis of research

Research about my product

I learnt the following things about creating dog food…

Unhealthy food for dogs

Alcoholic Beverages: Any type of alcohol can be poisonous to your pet and aside from intoxication, can cause a coma or even death.

Candy containing the sweetener Xylitol: Can cause liver damage and even death.

Chocolate: Chocolate poisoning can cause irregular heart rate and rhythm, restlessness, hyperactivity, diarrhea, vomiting, panting, muscle tremors, abdominal pain, bloody urine, increased body temperature, seizures, coma and possibly even death.

Moldy Foods: Can have varied effects on pets including vomiting and diarrhea.

Mushrooms: Different types of mushrooms can have varied effects on pets such as, depression, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, tearing, hallucinations, defecation, liver failure, seizures, drooling, urination, kidney failure, heart damage, hyperactivity and in some cases, death.

Mustard Seeds: Can have varied effects on pets.

Onions and Onion Powder: Can cause gastrointestinal problems such as vomiting and diarrhea.

Peach Pits: Can cause respiratory difficulties such as breathing, coughing and sneezing.

Potato Leaves and Stems: Can cause problems with the digestive, nervous and urinary systems.

Raisins: Large amounts of raisins can be poisonous to pets and can cause vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, abdominal pain, lack of appetite and kidney damage.

(Bruyere, Rosalyn)

Taste that dogs like

Dogs are carnivores. Their mouth to the intestines is design to cope with a meat diet, dogs are also able to survive with vegetables, but a complete absence of meat will likely lead to nutritional deficiencies (McGreevy, Paul)

• Is there anything, which I will need to be careful when I make dog food?

Dogs love bones but vets don’t because of the risks of stoppage or choking. Very Large bones minimize such risk. Never give a dog a chop bone (Larkin, Peter, and Stockman Mike)

How to know if a dog is missing vitamin in his diets

The symptom is depending on what kind of vitamin the dog is missing. The most common case in captive animals is a lack of vitamin A and E because the captive diet without vitamin supplement usually does not have enough of these two vitamins or the vitamin in the food source become not effective anymore because of wrong processing or been stored too long. The most common symptom that you can observe is bad hair quality and then if the case becomes worse it will show as bad skin. (Bayu, Wirayudha)

Tips for making dog food

The best way to know what is the best food for animal is by knowing what they use to eat in the wild. Captive behavior makes the animal lose some of their instinct including what they need to make them healthy. As the dog is a carnivore you must ensure the dog is getting enough animal protein (beef, chicken, fish and other animal product). To overcome the vitamin deficiency and give some carbohydrate (they do not need as many carbohydrates as human need) you can feed them with cooked sweet potato that has very high vitamin A and has quite high protein level as well. Clean their teeth and give them calcium by feed them cow bone. (Bayu, Wirayudha)

Unusual ingredient which are been used for dog food

One of the unusual ingredients, which are used in ordinary dog food, is the fermented soybean. In Japan, fermented soybeans are really common thing to eat, but there are people who like the taste or hate the taste. Akirou Itou, who lives in Nagoya Japan, has made the dog food by drying the fermented soybeans and adding some taste on to it. It is pretty popular with some dogs but there are some dogs who hates it. (Mitsuki Takamura)

The source which I got this information is;

McGreevy, Paul. Dogs. San Francisco: 2002.

Larkin, Peter, and Stockman Mike. The Essential Dog Book. London: 2003.

Bruyere, Rosalyn. "A Comprehensive List of Poisonous Food Items for Cats and Dogs.". 14/11/08 .

Mitsuki, Takamura. " 犬も食べれば健康体？ 「納豆ドッグフード」." 中日新聞　12/12/08, edition: 5.

. Bayu, Wirayudha. Personal interview. 29 Sep 2008

Research about my Area of Interaction

I learned these things about my area of interaction:

That it is good to maintain the health of our bodies and our minds as “whole” beings. Previously I had not considered the two parts as being important to one another. I only ever thought about the mental health of a person separately to the physical health. Now I know it is good to have a balance. In this project though I focused mainly on physical health through food. I could also focus on how to make my dog happy mentally and through exercise.

This information came from:

Paetold, Werner (editor) Bali International School Student Personal Project Guide, Bali International School, Bali, Indonesia: 2008

Research for New Ideas

I learnt these things that I did not know before doing this project:

The process of creating things: I was able to see the application of the design/creative process to real life. We learn about the design process in art and IT but I was able to learn that doing that full process of investigate, plan, create, evaluate is actually useful in real life.

Analysis of process and the outcome

1. Achieve my goal?

I believe that I have partially been able to achieve my goal. The reason why I say that it was partially is because I was able to make the healthy dog food, which was one of the goal, on the other hand, I was not been able to make that food tasty. By making the healthy dog food, it might help the Balinese dog, but by making the food which dogs are not willing to eat, they would not eat the food, and that would not change the state of health of the dogs. By doing this project, I was not been able to achieve my goal entirely, but I was been able to take one step for making the healthy dog food for my dog.

2. Focusing on an area of interaction

I wrote about my AOI on these pages: 3, 11, 14, 16

Although the AOI “Health and Social Education” is generally focused on human health and social development, I believe it was applicable in this case to my dog because I was able to learn a lot about nutrition and my own responsibility for helping another being with their state of health.

3. Inspiration

For doing this project, I got the idea from the book about dogs; furthermore, because I like dogs, and there were some news talking about the dog food poisoning, I thought that I could make one on my own which is not poisonous. Also I had a dog, which got ill and I want to prevent that from happening it to my new dog. And there are many dogs which are roaming the streets in Bali sick, or dying because of the unhealthy diet. This really bothered me as animal lover and this made me decide that I want to do some thing about this, but from small scale.

4. Planning

Sitting down and setting a plan for my project was great because by having the plan, I was able to catch up when I lost files on my computer. Moreover, by having the plan, it made me think it as the dead line for doing the work and that has helped me a lot to be on time because by having dead line for the work, it made me work more effectively.

5. Research

I was successful in researching through interviewing. The reason I say this is because I was able to find out most of the information, which I needed through interviewing the vet. Furthermore, by doing an interview, I was able to get one of the vets to support me in the making of the dog food, just in case my dog gets sick because of the food, which I have made.

I was also unsuccessful in researching because I was not able to find much information about the problems involved in making dog food, and the dangers in making it. For this problem, I was not actually able to solve it because of a lack of resources. I should have used other resources for this information because for finding this information, I only tried to use the Internet, and because of relying on to the Internet, it made me limit the way to find the solution or the answer for the question.

Problems I had during my research step were that my computer broke down. Because of this problem, I was not able to find the information on the Internet, which would have been easy and relevant. This had affected the quality of my research because after I got my computer back, I had limited time for researching before I made my dog food

Creation

The creation for this project was not successful because I was not able to achieve my goal, which is to make the tastiest and healthiest dog food. The reason why I could not achieve my goal is because I made the dog food with some material which dogs like, but because there are some food which is going to make the dog healthy but it does not taste good, the dog which I gave it to did not eat much of the food. This is showing that I have failed to achieve my goal because I was able to make healthy dog food, but I was not able to make the food which is tasty.

Evaluation of my product

For this project, I was disappointed about the product I made because I was meant to be making the healthy dog food, which dogs will love to eat. However, I was only able to make my dog food healthy but a food the dog would not bother eating. The reason which this might happened is because for my material which I chose to use, there was some food which said that it is healthy, but there are high chances of dog not eating it. My vet warned me, but I wanted to try anyway. By using that material, that might have made the dog eat less and to be less attractive for the dogs.

I believe that by making this product, I was been able to achieve my AOI which is Health and Social Education at some point because one of the key question is ‘How am I changing’, and by making this product, I believe that I started to think more about the health of the dogs, furthermore, but making the healthy dog food, it started to make me think that there are some ways to help other dogs which could be food poisoning or dieing because of owner’s wrong diet.

One of the points which I felt good is that I have tried with my dogs, but mostly they did not like it, on the other hand, when I gave the dog food to a street dog, because my dog did not like it, the dog actually ate it because it did not have much to choose from. I continued to give the dog food a few times to the same dog, it looked like that that dog started to get healthier. This could be due simply to having food, because that dog might have no luck of finding the food and he might have been unhealthy because he was starving. On the other hand, I would like to think that it is healthier because of my product, as I know from my research that the contents of my product are exactly what an unhealthy dog needs, even if is not the tastiest food.

If I could do this project again, I would change the following things.

• Plan more ahead of time and make some back up time to get back to project when there is so many work

• Research more information, which is important to know, for example, which food is healthy and tastes good at the same time?

• The way to make my product and the time management for doing creating it

• Test on more dogs

• Stick to deadline

Another thing, which I would change, is my plan because by not having good plan to do my project and not sticking to the dead line for doing this project, I started to slack and not work effectively. Moreover, because I was not able to finish things on time and I got desperate when I needed to hand in my first draft etc. Another problem which I had with my plan is that even though I did not go well with the plan at beginning, I was able to catch up, but because I had not checked the assessment schedule, there were many assessments due close to that date and I needed to work on these assessment, and I left this project for later.

Another thing, which I thought that I would need improvement with in this project, is my research. In my research, there is some information, which I could use; on the other hand, there is not much information. The reason there are not much information in the research is because I was not able to put time on much research due to loosing file several times and not having much time to work on the research when I was really late for my plan. If I was able to manage my time more wisely, I would have found some events which are about the dog food poisoning or the article which talks about how to make good dog food etc because by not having much time, I was not been able to check the news paper article much.

Overall, I believe that the biggest thing, which I would have needed, is my time management skills because by planning ahead of time, and by setting myself a goal to do how far, it would have made me really easy to work without hesitating and did not need to get some really bad quality work. By managing my time better, I would have been able to make some success on my product because by having time, I would have been able to find some foods which are pretty healthy and tasty for dog, more than the food which dogs hate but healthy. Moreover, if I was been able to manage the time affectively, I could have make several other type of dog food by using entirely different material and compare which they would like to eat.

Conclusion

By doing this project, I learnt several things about my Area of Interaction, which is Health and Social Education. One of the things that I have learnt from this AOI is that it is not as simple as it sound to make other people of animal healthier. From the key question “how can I look after myself and others?” it shows that it is related to this project, by helping me build knowledge of my dog’s health and develop my responsibility for my dog

The thing, which I got interested and willing to find out more about from this project, is which of the dog food is the most healthiest right now, what is the ingredient of it. The reason which I am willing to know which dog food is most healthy is because by knowing that, I would at least tell people that that is the healthiest dog food which you could give to the dog to make healthy, and by learning the ingredient of that, I could make some new thing which could possibly more healthier. Furthermore, by learning about this, I would be able to relate with the AOI for this project, which is Health and Social Education because by learning how to make it, I would be able to educate other people about the health of dog and the healthy diets for the dogs.

From the experience, which I had from this project, I have reconfirmed that I would want to be a vet. By doing this project, I had longer time to spend with my dog, and from that time, I thought that I would really want to help the animal when they get sick.

This was not the best work which I could have done for my personal project because I had some problem with my computer and because of that, I had to rewrite a few times. Due to this event, I was not able to go well with my plan. Furthermore, by myself having lack of time management skill and being lazy at the same time, I was not able to work on time. After a while, I have realized that I would not have enough time to finish the actual project and from that, I started to try get back on track by more consistently applying myself.

The best part of my personal project was that I was able to communicate with my dog more often than I do. Furthermore, by doing this project, I believe that I was able to get closer to my dog because by thinking about my own dog’s health, I was able to really care about him. I believe that this was good project to do because by knowing how to make a healthy food, I would be able to give it out when my dog gets sick; furthermore, by doing this project, I was been able to get the basic information which I need to make healthy dog food, and from this information, I would be able to improve the food which I have made. After I fix the recipe for the dog food, I would be spreading it to my friends and the family member because by spreading the recipe to other people, they might share the recipe to the other owners, which has dog and that would make the dogs in Bali healthier.

Bibliography

Internet

• Bruyere, Rosalyn. "A Comprehensive List of Poisonous Food Items for Cats and Dogs.” 14 Nov 2008 .

Books

. McGreevy, Paul. Dogs. San Francisco: 2002.

. Larkin, Peter, and Stockman Mike. The Essential Dog Book. London: 2003.

. Paetold, Werner (editor) Bali International School Student Personal Project Guide, Bali International School, Bali, Indonesia: 2008

Newspaper Article

. Mitsuki, Takamura. " 犬も食べれば健康体？ 「納豆ドッグフード」." 中日新聞　12 Dec 2008, edition: 5.

Interview

. Bayu, Wirayudha. Personal interview. 29 Sep 2008

Appendices

Appendix Ⅰ

This is a photo of my new dog.

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I got this picture from my sister, which she took it on July.

I have written about this appendix on page 3.

This appendix is important because from this picture, it shows the current health status of my dog, furthermore, how my dog looks.

Appendix Ⅱ

The following is the copy of the interview, which I had with the vet.

Hajime :Hello, Drh. Bayu

Bayu: Hello, Hajime

Hajime :May I ask you question for my school project?

Bayu: Yea, sure.

Hajime ; How would you know if a dog's missing vitamin in his diets?

Bayu : ok…vitamin deficiency on most animal will show the symptom after it happened for long time. The symptom is depending on what kind of vitamin that dog need miss. The most common case on captive animal that I know are lack of vitamin A and E because the captive diet without vitamin supplement usually do not have enough of these two vitamin and or the vitamin in the food source become not effective anymore because wrong processing or been stored too long. Dog is a carnivore so naturally most of their food sources are came from fresh animal meat. When they are in captivity they got their captive diet based on the owner intention not necessary the dog need. The most common symptom that you can observed are started by the bad hair quality. Then if the case become worse it will show the bad skin (dandruff, the skin become not flexible etc). It is also can develop to have eye problem (only vitamin A). In none tropical country sometime vitamin D deficiency also can happen that indicated by bone malformation. Vitamin K deficiency is very seldom, you know more when the dog have any injury / bleeding that cannot be stopped. Vitamin B deficiency is not a common think happened but sometime it happened that connected with their blood production. The dog look lethargic, the mucous membrane on the gum or on their eye becomes paler than normal. I never seen vitamin c deficiency but it may happened with a symptom like bleeding gum.

Hajime: Wow… can I ask you one more question?

Bayu: Yeap

Hajime: Do you have any tips for making nutritious dog food?

Bayu: The best way to know what is the best food for animal is by knowing what they use to eat in the wild. Captive behavior make the animal lost some of their instinct include what they need to make them healthy. As the dog is carnivore you must ensure the dog have enough animal protein (beef, chicken, fish and other animal product). To overcome the captive vitamin most common deficiency and give some carbohydrate ( they do not really need carbohydrate as what human need) you can feed them with cooked sweet potato that have very high vitamin A and have quite high protein level as well. For their mental health, clean their teeth and to get some calcium you can feed them cow bone.

Hajime: Ok…Thank you very much for your help.

Bayu: No problem. Oh yeas, tell me when you’re making the dog food because I would love to help you with it.

Hajime: Great. Thank you very much.

. This interview was held at Gallery W and it was on 29 Sep 2008.

I have written about this appendix on page 9.

This is one of the important source which I had because by interviewing, I was been able to find out most of the important information, and after this interview, he had checked my internet source’s reliability.

Appendix Ⅲ

This is a copy of my recipe, which I have used for making my cookie.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Combine 1/2-cup of dry milk and 1/2 cup of wheat germ; add 1-teaspoon honey on top.

3. Chop down 100g of the liver in to really small piece, and add crushed fermented soybeans

4. Form the mixture into balls; place them on an oiled cookie sheet and flatten them with a fork.

5. Bake 8 to 10 minutes.

I have written about this appendix on page 5.

This appendix is important for my project because by not having the recipe for making the dog food, I would have not been able to make my dog food without messing it up or struggle when I was making it.

AppendixⅣ

These are the pictures of my cooking

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I took this while I was making the dog food.

I hare written about this on page 6.

This picture explains about what my project was about and how did the product look like at the end.

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