Comments on: Cooking for pets: Share your treat recipes

By: Nadine L.

Nadine L. — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:01:54 +0000

Please thank your wife for sharing this, Bernie, and thank you for mentioning it! Lucky Scoutie! Now I’ll be baking this weekend!

By: Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewski

Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewski — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:48:19 +0000

OK, here’s my wife’s salmon cookie recipe…

Actually she got it out of the Lakeshore Humane Society news letter.

1 - 15oz can of salmon with the juice.

2 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp salt (but she has this crossed out)

Mix ingredients together. Add enough flour to make a firm dough. Press and pat out onto a greased cookie sheet. Score lighly in a criss cross pattern to make breaking into pieces easier.

Bake at 350 deg for about 30 min (she says 40 for crispier cookies). Cool, break into pieces and store in the fridge.

Here’s my recipe for great doggie treats! Take some food off your plate and toss it to them!

Both Scout and Brandy would eat pretty much anything I tossed them… :-)

By: slt

slt — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:33:22 +0000

Biscotti drizzled with PB glaze?! O your dogs are lucky to have such a hardworking dogMom!
: )
I am so lazy when it comes to treats. I pretty much go for the “put everything in a bowl and stir it up” style recipes - less things to wash, hehe. Other foods that the dogs seem to like in addition to peanut butter (and which can be used in place of PB or in various combos): canned pumpkin, applesauce, shredded cheese, cream cheese, molasses, over ripe bananas… I know there’s more but that’s all I can think of at the mo.
Corn bread is also popular here (and with the lazy cook too). ; )

By: Leslie k

Leslie k — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:23:41 +0000

I do pretty much the same as slt. I vary it by switching liver or baby food for the pb, if you want a soft cookie type treat,sub wheat germ for the flour.I use organic whole wheat, rice or oat flour for the roughage. If you skip the pb, you can add eggs & meat broth too. Just don’t do the leave in the oven if theres meat in them.They need to be refridgerated or frozen. I made chopped dry roasted peanut & banana biscotti for them last month. Make the dough,form into logs & bake. Cool,slice & rebake,let sit in oven to harden & then drizzle with pb glaze.[I melted pb with a little bit of crisco & white chocolate chips for the glaze. White choc is not really choc, but go light because of the sugar content.]These & poultry baby food or liver seem to be the favorites. You can add mint & parsley also for a breath treat.

By: slt

slt — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:33:53 +0000

I’ve been making dog treats for years and one thing I figured out is that I don’t actually need a recipe to make a treat the dogs will like. I can improvise and for me - that works! One recipe ‘guideline’ I often use is this:
-equal amounts of whole wheat flour and rolled oats
-about 1/3 that amount of peanut butter
-enough liquid to make a dough

Directions: Stir until dough forms, roll dough onto cookie sheet, slice through w/pizza cutter to make size treats you want, bake.

Tips & Tricks:
-Waste not, want not. I hate throwing anything away. If possible, I try to use it. Water that has been used to boil veggies or meat in works great for making treat dough.
-Treat recipes all come out soft when baked. To harden, shut oven off when done and leave biscuits in overnight with door closed.

By: Luisa

Luisa — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:04:48 +0000

Monday [tomorrow] is the last day to tell the USDA that “naturally raised” should MEAN naturally raised.

More info here:
http://lassiegethelp.blogspot......to-by.html

and here, at The Ethicurean:
http://www.ethicurean.com/2008.....l_comment/

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:13:10 +0000

I don’t have a recipe to add, but I’ve been making the liver brownies that Dorene posted for about two years now and I can’t say enough about how much my dogs love them. I learned about them when I was showing one of my dogs who is sooo NOT food motivated, but he loves these and was one of the only was I could keep his attention. I made a batch and froze all but one square at a time, they last for a while. And yes it STINKS when you are cooking them!