April 9, 2007

You Bake 'Em, Dog Biscuits

When we adopted our Golden Retrievers, we received You Bake 'Em, Dog Biscuits, a 48-page book of recipes, as a gift from the ever-generous editors of Super Cool Baby and Shirt Snob. Today April 9 is their precious son's first birthday--Happy Birthday Andy!

As posted before, this is a good time to be preparing your pet's food, due to the scary and extremely unnecessary pet food recall. I highly recommend You Bake 'Em Dog Biscuits by Janine Adams. It is packed with recipes and is essentially a kit that includes five cookie cutters for shaping the biscuits, doggie bags and labels for giving the biscuits as gifts. You control the ingredients, which most likely will not include poison. Included in the smorgasbord are recipes for low-fat treats, food sensitivities (big one for Goldens), high fiber, low protein--whatever your pet needs.

Sample homemade treats include:

*Steak and Potato Biscuits
*Peanut Butter Cookies
*Low- Fat Herbalicious Biscuits
*Grain-Free Liver Crunchies
*Fishy Training Treats (our favorites, dubbed "Tuna Tasties" or their variant "Chicken Chewies", since tuna has high mercury levels)