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I generally don’t use treats for training purposes, but I do like to give my dogs something to nibble on every morning for breakfast.\u00a0 What they get varies, depending on what’s in the fridge and\u00a0whether I’ve got to the local markets for hand-made dog bikkies.\u00a0 This week, the fridge was bare and I hadn’t made the markets, so I headed to the supermarket.\u00a0 I was trying to decide what to buy – there are so many different brands and flavours – and then I turned a packet over to read the ingredients.\u00a0 Well, actually I couldn’t read the ingredients.\u00a0 I had no real idea what half of the ingredients actually were.\u00a0 Now, I’ve bought these treats for my dogs before and they love them.\u00a0 They clearly don’t care what’s in them! But, at up to $7 a packet, I wondered if I could do any better.\u00a0 I regularly bake biscuits for myself, and I know what foods are, and aren’t, good for dogs.\u00a0 And so it was that homemade treats were on the menu this week.<\/p>\n
A quick google search will list a variety of things that dogs should or shouldn’t eat.\u00a0 It can vary from site to site.\u00a0 For example, some sites say that dogs shouldn’t eat cheese, and others say a small amount of low fat cheese, especially cottage cheese, is good for dogs.\u00a0 One site lists parmesan cheese as a “super food”!\u00a0 So a bit of common sense is important.\u00a0 Rather than buying special ingredients, I decided to try and use leftovers and\u00a0only the things that were in my cupboard.\u00a0 I also wanted to produce a ‘soft’ biscuit, as my old girl tends to find the crunchy ones a bit tough on the old chompers.\u00a0 I came up with four flavours:\u00a0 Apple and Cheese; Blueberry; Peanut Butter and Honey; and Lamb and Sweet Potato.<\/p>\n
As well as being easy and\u00a0considerably cheaper than store-bought products,\u00a0it’s nice to know exactly what your pet is eating. \u00a0Each recipe took very little time to make and only about 20 minutes to bake.\u00a0 I didn’t need to muck around, trying to make them pretty (it’s one of the great things about cooking for dogs!) and the beauty of them is that you can use most\u00a0leftovers that you have lying around.\u00a0I made quite a wet mixture and cooked them until they were soft, but you could change the mixture to make\u00a0a crunchy biscuit.<\/p>\n
But of course the test was whether they were as popular with the dogs as a purchased product.\u00a0 They’ve been eating them for a few days now and they seem to love them.\u00a0 Tilly, in particular, inhales them with considerable zest and comes running back for more!<\/p>\n
The recipes are below if you wish to try them.\u00a0 Try changing up the flavours and have a bit of fun with them.<\/p>\n
Apple and Cheese<\/span><\/p>\n 3\/4 cup wholemeal self-raising flour, 1 grated apple, 2 tablespoons cottage cheese, 1 tablespoon honey – bake for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n Blueberry<\/span><\/p>\n 3\/4 cup wholemeal self-raising flour, 1 egg, 2 tablespoon cottage cheese, 1\/4 cup blueberries, 1 tablespoon honey – bake for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n Peanut Butter and Honey<\/span><\/p>\n 1\/2 cup wholemeal self-raising flour, 4 tablespoons natural yoghurt, 2 tablespoons smooth peanut butter, 1\/4 cup oats, 1 tablespoon honey – bake for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n Lamb and Sweet Potato<\/span><\/p>\n 3\/4 cup wholemeal self-raising flour, 1 egg, 1\/4 cup brown rice, 1\/3 cup finely cut lamb, 1\/3 cup grated sweet potato, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley – bake for 20 minutes<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”http:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Apple-180.png” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”http:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Blueberry-Big.png” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”http:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Peanut-Butter-180.png” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”http:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Lamb-180.png” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] I generally don’t use treats for training purposes, but I do like to give my dogs something to nibble on every morning for breakfast.\u00a0 What they get varies, depending on what’s in the fridge and\u00a0whether I’ve got to the local markets for hand-made dog bikkies.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeding","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eylesviewbordercollies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}