home made dog treats

Legacy_user

Does anyone make their own dog treats/biscuits ? We are wanting to move from shop bought dog food and treats to a more healthy option but dont know where to start.
Any suggestions please.

Sukey

I made some fishy biscuits at the weekend:

Tin of fish in oil (I used sardines)
1 beaten egg
100g flour (I used spelt flour)

empty the contents of the tin of fish, including the oil, into a bowl and flake with a fork. mix in the egg and the flour until combined. I then made them into little balls and put them on a baking sheet, pressing them down into discs using the back of a fork. I baked them at the bottom of the oven for about 45mins on 180c. I then turned the oven off and left them to cool in there so that they'd harden.
The dogs have loved them!

System

thanks for that .

susiejq

Hi,
There are loads of recipes on the internet; www.pinterest.com has quite a lot. It's an American site so you might have to trawl through to find some that you can get all the ingredients for. One of these days I'm going to make some myself.
Good luck

Katiehound

Rolled oats mixed with water, or with milk (or add dried milk) Mix to a stiff dough. Press into tin. Mark into fingers .Slowish oven . Turn oat dough over when top is golden and bake other side. The longer and slower you bake the harder and crunchier they will be. (They are fine for people too- nice with cheese!!)
You can always add cheese to mix or drop of dissolved marmite. (not much as it is on the salty side.)

I've also made liver cake/liver flapjack but forget the recipe. Guess someone will have one. It was easy and cheap.

singlehouseholder

Sukey wrote: »

I made some fishy biscuits at the weekend:

Tin of fish in oil (I used sardines)
1 beaten egg
100g flour (I used spelt flour)

empty the contents of the tin of fish, including the oil, into a bowl and flake with a fork. mix in the egg and the flour until combined. I then made them into little balls and put them on a baking sheet, pressing them down into discs using the back of a fork. I baked them at the bottom of the oven for about 45mins on 180c. I then turned the oven off and left them to cool in there so that they'd harden.
The dogs have loved them!

I've made the same but used tuna rather than sardines, they go down a treat, pardon the pun. Brilliant for training too, think it's because of their pungent aroma:D

Gold_Dust_2

I've never done it myself, but somebody did put up a link before that looked interesting:

http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2012/02/10/easy-to-make-pet-treats.aspx

krlyr

I make recipes similar to those you'd make for people, but omit the 'naughties'. Butter/marg is swapped for a smaller quantity of oil (fish, olive, vegetable, rice bran, coconut - whatever I've got to hand), no sugar at all (sweetness can be added - carrots are a sweeter veg so can be grated/blended and added, or a bit of honey). I try to add a strong flavour to create high value dog treats - blended liver, tinned fish, grated cheese or similar. I make a variety of treats in different textures - oats tend to give a crumbly flapjack type treat (easy for dog to swallow in a hurry), flour can be used to make crunchy biscuits or soft cakes. Even without mixing up cake type treats, simple treats can be made simply by dicing and dehydrating (low oven temp will do if you don't have a dehydrator) meat - again, liver works well, chicken, turkey, beef, fish etc. should all work.