How to Make Homemade Pork Rind Dog Treats

How to Make Homemade Pork Rind Dog Treats

If you're looking for a fun and easy way to spoil your furry friend, why not try making homemade pork rind dog treats? Not only are they simple to make, but your pup will absolutely love them! Follow these steps to create a delicious and healthy snack for your four-legged companion.

Ingredients:

• Pork shoulder skins

Instructions:

To start, cut the pork shoulder skins into small pieces. Depending on the size of your pup, you may want to adjust the size of the pork rinds. For example, my Boxer girl prefers treats that she can easily hold with her paws while she enjoys chewing on them.

Heat a cast-iron skillet on the stove over medium heat.

Place the pork skin pieces in the skillet and cook until they are crispy and golden brown.

Remove the pork rinds from the skillet and let them cool before giving them to your dog as a tasty treat!

Now you can make your furry friend some delicious homemade pork rind dog treats using just pork shoulder skins and a skillet. Your dog will love these crunchy snacks!

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Holiday Dog Treats

Holiday Dog Treats

These homemade holiday dog treats are a delightful and healthy snack for your beloved fur baby. The combination of peanut butter, oatmeal, and pre-cooked sweet potatoes, pumpkin, or butternut squash provides a tasty and nutritious treat that your dog will surely enjoy.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup of peanut butter

• 1 1/4 cup of flour

• 1/2 cup of pre-cooked sweet potatoes, pumpkin, or butternut squash

• 1/4 cup of oatmeal

Instructions:

In a mixing bowl, combine 1/2 cup of peanut butter, 1 1/4 cups of flour, 1/2 cup of pre-cooked sweet potatoes, pumpkin, or butternut squash, and a 1/4 cup of oatmeal. Mix the ingredients until they are well combined.

Next, shape the mixture into small bite-sized treats or use a holiday cookie cutter to create fun shapes that will surely bring a wag to your furry friend's tail.

Place the treats on greased baking trays. Now, it's time to bake these delectable treats. Pop them into a 400 degree oven and let them bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until they turn a beautiful golden brown and become firm to the touch.

Allow your holiday dog treats to cool completely before storing them in a glass jar or Ziploc bag.

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Peanut butter oatmeal dog treats

Peanut butter oatmeal dog treats

Today, I am super excited to share my techniques for making another truly wholesome dog treat with you. After-all, your furry companions deserve healthy food, so that they can be their best selves.

These pup treats are the perfect snack to make ahead of time for your cuddly pooch as a reward for their love and companionship, obedience, potty-training, or for any other training in general. 

My fur baby seems to think that the treats taste better when they're made in different cute shapes. So, I use three different cookie cutters when I make these dog treats. Plus, using different cookie cutter sizes also allows me to make good use of the leftover dough pieces. The three shapes that I am using for this recipe are a gingerbread man, a star, and a flower-shaped cookie cutter. (I use regular cookie cutters to make mine.)

If you don't have any cookie cutters, that's okay too. After rolling out the dough, cut it into squared-shaped pieces, or use a small open end juice glass to cut the dough into small circular disc shapes. 

For small toy-sized breeds, puppies, and older dogs, I suggest cutting the dough into really small shapes with a knife. They also make mini-shaped dog treat cutters that you can purchase online at K9Cakery.

During the holiday season, I make these treats in several holiday themed shapes (turkey, Santa, snowman, snowflake, candy cane, etc..)

I use one egg in this recipe, but I often substitute the egg for ¼ cup of unsweetened applesauce. My dog loves the recipe when I make it either way.

I purchase old-fashioned rolled oats from Walnut Creek Foods in bulk. They sell oats in fifty-pound bags, but if you prefer smaller bags, you can also purchase them in three-pound bags there. They have several grades of oats and some are gluten-free.

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cups of old-fashioned rolled oats

• 1 cup of peanut butter

• 2 cups of flour (any type of flour works well with these treats)

• 1 egg

• ⅓ cup of warm water

Instructions:

In a bowl, add the rolled oats and peanut butter together; blend well. Then add in the flour, water, and the egg; combine until all the ingredients are incorporated.

Next, sprinkle a small amount of flour onto the counter and transfer the dough onto it. Lightly sprinkle flour on the top of the dough. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough out to about a ¼ inch thickness. 

The dough will not be completely smooth since we are using old-fashioned rolled oats as a main ingredient.

Now, cut the dough out into shapes using a cookie cutter, or cut the dough into shapes with a knife, or with an open end small juice glass.

Once all the dough has been cut out, place the shapes on a baking tray. Transfer the tray to a 350 degrees F oven and bake for about twenty-five minutes. (Flip the treats over after the first fifteen minutes of baking.)

The treats will turn a golden-brown color, especially around the outside edges, and be slightly hard once they're completely baked.

After the treats are done baking, transfer the baking tray to a wire cooling rack, allowing the dog treats to cool. Afterward, place the treats in an airtight bag, or container. (I use mason jars.)

Reward your adorable pooch with one of these healthy dog treats after taking walks, during and after training them to do tricks, for potting training them, and for obedience training.

#DogBreak

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Homemade sweet potato dog chewy treats

Homemade sweet potato dog chewy treats

To make this dog treat recipe, you'll need sweet potatoes, a sharp knife, a dehydrator, and time. The hardest part is slicing the sweet potatoes. For this recipe, I do not peel the potatoes, because the peels have so much goodness in them for my fur baby. Contrary to some beliefs, the skin of sweet potatoes is not poisonous.

My dog loves sweet potato chewy treats and I love that she does, because they're so healthy for her. They're not only high in fiber, but they're also loaded with vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B-6, calcium, potassium, riboflavin, magnesium, and iron. Vitamin A alone helps build healthy muscles, eyes, skin, and fur. 

One sweet potato makes several treats, but when I make these treats for my fur baby, I generally slice at least six to eight (depending on their size) sweet potatoes at a time to dehydrate.

Ingredients:

• Sweet potatoes (the amount depends on how many trays that you have to fill)

Instructions:

Wash the sweet potatoes well and slice them about a quarter inch thick (or as thin as you possibly can without the risk of cutting yourself) You can either slice them in rounds or lengthwise. Since my dog is a large breed, I make her jerky treats by cutting them lengthwise. Sometimes I cut them into one inch stick shapes, however, today I didn't. The sweet potato treats will shrink in size as the dehydrator dries the moisture out of them.

Place the sweet potatoes on the dehydrator trays and place them in the dehydrator. Dehydrate the treats for about ten hours at 135 degrees F. If you want to make crunchier sweet potato treats for your dog, just extend the time by dehydrating the sweet potatoes.

Once the dog treats are done, store them in jars. 

Notes:

If you don't have a dehydrator, you can dehydrate the dog treats in the oven at the lowest temperature possible, and leave the oven door ajar (open partially).

Yams also can be used to make healthy dog treats.

If you want to save time on dehydrating, you can also use cooked sweet potatoes too by following the same instructions as above. Using pre-cooked sweet potatoes shaves off almost half of the time, dehydrating.

References:

Paretts, S. (n.d.). Are Sweet Potato Peelings Poisonous to a Dog? Dog Care - Daily Puppy. https://dogcare.dailypuppy.com/sweet-potato-peelings-poisonous-dog-7755.html

Danielle. (2022, March 3). Can Dogs Eat Sweet Potato Skin? Benefits & Risks. PawLeaks. https://pawleaks.com/is-sweet-potatoe-skin-harmful-to-dogs/

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Chickpea dog treats

Chickpea dog treats

This is a healthy dog treat that's packed with nutritional benefits. The dough in this dog treat recipe can be prepared in two ways, baked or dehydrated. I am baking mine today, but I will also include the instructions (towards the end of my article) on how you can dehydrate the dog treats. 

The chickpeas are super easy to smash once they're cooked.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of chickpeas, cooked

• ½ cup of sweet potato, cooked and peeled

• ½ cup of carrots, cooked

• 2 tablespoons of oil

• 1 cup flour

• ¼ cup water

Instructions:

If you need the cooking instructions for chickpeas, go back to read my article "Chickpeas for pooches". In that article I went through all the steps to show how I cook them specifically for pet food.

To cook the sweet potato, place it into a pan of boiling water and cook it until it's tender. Boiling a sweet potato usually takes about thirty-five minutes. Drain the water off, allow the sweet potato to cool; peel it and mash it. Set aside.

In a bowl, mix all the ingredients together until they’re well blended. You can use a potato masher, blender or a food processor if you'd prefer, or use a large fork and mash all the ingredients together (I just used a fork to mash my ingredients).

Transfer the chickpea mixture by the spoonfuls onto a baking pan and spread it out evenly inside the pan. I just used a large spoon, but you can take your time and spread the dough mixture out with a spatula to make it smoother if you prefer.

Bake in a 350 degree F oven for about thirty-five minutes. Allow the treats to cool, then cut them into square-shaped pieces and place them in an airtight container and store them inside the refrigerator. The dog treats can also be frozen, then taken out as needed.

Note:

To dehydrate the dog treats, add the dough by small spoonfuls on silicone trays, or pipe it out of a bag. (Take a Ziploc bag, cut a dime-sized hole out at one corner, fill the bag with the dough and squeeze it out onto the silicone trays.)

Set the temperature at 150 degrees F and dehydrate for about twelve hours or until done. (The time may vary depending on your dehydrator.)

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