posted 12-15-2003 01:54 AM         

3 sm. jars (2 1/2 oz) second stage baby food
(any of the meats your dogs may favor)

9 tablespoons powdered milk

13 tablespoons wheat germ

** Form into small balls. Bake for 12 minutes in a 350 degree F oven. Store in refrigerator.

posted 12-15-2003 10:06 AM         

Thanks

posted 12-15-2003 12:45 PM         

Also here is another recipe I found, I haven't tried it yet.

Organic Dog Biscuits

1 kg chickpea flour
1 organic egg
1 organic banana
50 ml organic honey
200 ml water
organic ground seeds and/or nuts

Mix all ingredients except the seeds/nuts together. The dough should be very stiff so add more or less water to achieve this. Sprinkle with the ground seeds/nuts. Roll and cut into desired shapes. Bake @ 170 C until very hard and golden brown.

*note: make sure to choose nuts or seeds that are NOT TOXIC.

One more ....

This one was actually on a horse web site, but I don't see why a dog couldn't have them too. They will be sweet so maybe not too much at a time.

Carrot Cookies

1 cup dry oatmeal
1 cup flour (rice flour might be best for dogs)
1 cup shredded carrots
1 tspn salt
1 tspn sugar
2 tspns vegetable oil (I substitute canola oil)
1/4 cup molasses

Mix all ingredients in the order listed. Make little balls and place on greased cookie sheet. Bake @ 350 degrees F for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

posted 12-15-2003 01:23 PM         

1 of my teachers told me, if you don't want to be the cook in the family, just burn everything anyone asks you to cook for them, the first time they ask you... .

posted 12-15-2003 08:33 PM         

2 Eggs (I think I used 3 last time, and it turned out pretty good, so whichever)
1 1/2 cup flour (I've heard you can substitute potato flakes for the flour if your dog is allergic)
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 cups oats
Peanut butter (however much you like, I usually glop in about 5 big spoonfuls, enough that the mix is sticky)
1/2 cup oil, a little more if it looks like it needs it (vegetable oil or similar)
I also added in apple chunks, carrot chunks, and parsley (makes their breath smell nicer)

Put oil and eggs in and stir, then add the flour and baking soda. Once all that's mixed, add the oats, then whatever else you want, then the peanut butter, and stir it all up again. You might have to add a bit of water if it's too thick.

Then plop the mix out on cookie sheets and heat, I had the oven turned to 325, so they would dry out and be crunchy.

Two people tried them on seperate occasions, both promptly spit them out on the floor, so I'd probably advise against trying them yourself, but the dogs are CRAZY for them. They line up at the oven while they're baking, and dance around like little circus clowns when I get them out, waiting to taste one.

They (the cookies, not the dogs!) keep pretty well in the fridge, but since we have 5 dogs eating them, a batch only lasts a couple weeks, if we had less dogs, I'd probably freeze.

I also tried drying out liver for them a couple months ago (those liver treats are so expensive in stores, I figured it'd be easier to make them at home), they smelled HORRIBLE! While I was cutting them up, and while they were in the oven, the smell permeated through the whole house. I had to turn them up higher to get them done sooner (you're supposed to let them slow bake at a low temp for 6-8 hrs) because I couldn't stand the smell, then when I took them out, they were hard little black cubes. I gave the dogs each one, and upon hearing the crunching sounds, was afraid they were going to break their teeth The house stunk for almost a week afterwards, even after repeated air freshener run throughs, febreezings, and window/door openings. From now on, I'll buy the livers if we need them... just figured I'd send out a warning in case anyone was thinking about making them

posted 12-15-2003 10:05 PM         

50 ml= 3 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon

200 ml= 3/4 of a cup +4 teaspoons (or 6.8 oz)

170c = 337.5 degrees F...I'm going with 325 degrees F.

I am still having trouble figuring out proper measurement for the chickpea flour, first of all I have never heard of this...apparently it is gluten free. My problem is that I can't convert kg ( a weight measurement) to cups or a volumn measurement. The best I can offer is....
1 kg = 2.21 pounds of chickpea flour

posted 12-16-2003 12:47 AM         

We have a lot of family right in the area we live, my grandparents and an uncle live in the house behind us, and another aunt and her husband live right across the street, so I'm always wandering from house to house seeing who's having what for dinner (Goo loves her trips to visit "her" granparents ) , and they're always sending things up for my dad because "my mother never has food in the house" (their words, not mine). I'm one of those people who knows the frozen french fries are done by the smoke seeping out of the oven... and since all the little lumps of charcoal (errmm... fries) go to the dogs, it's no wonder they love it when I cook

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I can't stand the liver either, I refuse to put them in my treat pouch, they make it smell, not to mention my hands.

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posted 12-18-2003 07:20 AM         

I'm gonna try the others too.

Can dogs actually eat white flour ? I would think it would be better than wheat come to think of it, with all the allergies to wheat.

posted 12-24-2003 12:41 AM         

As far as your 1st recipe (your original post), can i substitute the Wheat Germ w/ Rice Flour? If so, how much Rice Flour should i put? Should i also put 13tbs?
Do i still let it cook for 12min?

What size balls do you make & how much do you end up making?

Sounds G R E A T, where'd you get this recipe? Is it yours?

I'd r e a l l y appreciate it, Thanks A-Lot !!!

**If there's any 1 more nutritous ingredient that you could/would add, basically, what would you recommend ??

posted 12-24-2003 04:30 AM         

Tell me about it. We used to get fresh liver from the market and hang it in the smoke house with the jerky and stuff for the dogs...never again. I learned that the smell migrates to everything, plus liver can be harmful to dogs.

SMokey got extremely sick off of it. I bought a bag of dried liver treats from the store and he ate one peice and not another, the next day he had bad diareaha, vomiting, high fever and very lathargic.
The vet said the liver I had gotten was contaminated with a deadly bacteria that the dehydrater did not kill.

Soooo, I will never again feed store bought liver. I cook the crud out of ANY livers I feed my dogs, chicken, or whatever it is. Other than that, its just fish bait for us.

posted 12-25-2003 05:12 PM         

1Kg = 2.2 pounds, therefore
1 pound ~ 0.45Kg

50 ml ~ 1.7 ounces
1 ounce ~ 28 grams(dry) or ml (liquid)
200 ml ~ 1/5 quarts

That's roughly the conversion.

It's kinda tuff, it took me about two years to get used to and understand the US/UK system, I was just used to the metric which is a lot easier... just increments of 10.

posted 12-25-2003 07:52 PM         

Powdered Milk was only sold in these huge amounts and were pricey because of that.
So, i substituted it w/ good old organic blue-berry yogurt. Yeah, on the moist side, but yummy & nutritous...

And i substituted the Wheat Germ for All-Purpose-Flour. I was trying to stay away from Wheat for Flour (which BTW both are known to be allergic food). It did'nt make much sense to switch, but i was in a rush sooooo, i grabed the bag w/ big letters saying ALL-PURPOSE-FLOUR "for all your baking needs"...
I wanted to get Rice Flour, but it had a process that i needed to do to it for it to even become flour. I wanted something for dummies, things that i could just toss in the bowl & mix away!

Anyhow, it all worked out just fine. It actually took longer to cook than i thought but it ended up being eatable! For a 1st time baker, i thought i did good . I actually tasted it myself. No-taste. Just the taste of flour.
My dogs loved them!!

Overall, i got left over flour, & i got experiance... There's always a next time ...
Watch Out Now!

I'll probably add egg or something like that next time around.