Home made dog treats

[Sheltiemama]

I'm looking for some great recipes for home made dog treats to add to my list of things I give to my kids. I'm goint all the way to home prepared foods and not buying any commercially made products.

Thanks

[calgal]

I don't buy commerical prepared foods or treats of any kind for my three. This is the recipe I made up myself that mine go nuts for, along with every other dog I've given them to.

4 cups unbleached flour
4 cups whole wheat flour (or if there are allergies then use rice flour)
1 package of fat free dry milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 packages calf liver (cooked, cold then ground)
4 eggs slightly beaten
lover broth

Cook the liver in enough water to cover till done. Place on a plate till cold or in ref. saving the broth. Then ground till it resembles coarse ground beef. Mix all ingredients together and pour liver broth a little at a time. Not too sticky or too dry. Like making bread. If you don't have enough liver broth then add some chicken broth. Roll out on floured surface to about 1/4 inch and cut in what ever shape you want. (I use a bone shape cutter). Place on ungreased cookie pan and bake in a pre heated 300 degree oven for 45 minutes. Cool on wire rack, place in freezer zip locks and keep in freezer. I give them to my dogs right out of the freezer for extra crunch.

[dogs4life]

Originally Posted by Sheltiemama

I'm looking for some great recipes for home made dog treats to add to my list of things I give to my kids. I'm goint all the way to home prepared foods and not buying any commercially made products.

Thanks

Calgal's recipe looks real yummy, if you want more the only recipe book I recommend is Janine Adams' You Bake'em Dog Biscuits Cookbook. She uses "real" ingredients, no boullion cubes, dog food or canned soup in the recipes like many of the cookbooks out there. Before we went grain-free, I tried the pumpkin recipe and the peanut butter cookie recipe, they turned out wonderful and the dog's loved them.

Since going raw recently, I don't use treats anymore, but for training I use shredded roasted meats and goat cheese. I mainly use chicken, turkey and sirloin beef. For cheese I use grated hard cheeses made from goats milk, our favorite is goat cheddar.

I'm going to try this one soon, it's oven dried liver bits.



HTH