Marmish wrote:If your pup is very young and/or a small breed, you can smack it a couple of times with a meat mallet or hammer, but it likely won't be necessary.

It is not necessary to smack the pup with anything, please smack instead the chicken wings.

Do not make biscuits out of dogs. Biscuits are for feeding to dogs.

Thank you

leek wrote:

Marmish wrote:If your pup is very young and/or a small breed, you can smack it a couple of times with a meat mallet or hammer, but it likely won't be necessary.

It is not necessary to smack the pup with anything, please smack instead the chicken wings.

Do not make biscuits out of dogs. Biscuits are for feeding to dogs.

Thank you

That'll teach me to use a vague antecedent.

Marmish wrote:

leek wrote:

Marmish wrote:If your pup is very young and/or a small breed, you can smack it a couple of times with a meat mallet or hammer, but it likely won't be necessary.

It is not necessary to smack the pup with anything, please smack instead the chicken wings.

That'll teach me to use a vague antecedent.

Not vague at all. Very clearly the "it" that "you" can smack is the pup

HI,

I have recently seen lamb and beef bones smoked (and perhaps otherwise processed) with asking prices of over $5 per pound. We are talking bone suitable for doggie with no meat clinging to it. I may have found my answer here. If anyone else has experience related to this, please advise.

Last weekend, I visited my sister bringing doggie treats to earn my seat at the table. Or distract them enough to sit for a quiet conversation before they get in on the act.

I arrived with smoked pig ears purchased for $1.25 each (and I complain about dog bone prices!). Each dog took an ear, parked themselves on the lawn for a quiet long term munch. These guys usually yap for a while. I have found smoked pig ear instructions.

If anyone has advice to offer on making these doggie treats, please comment.

Regards,

I tend to give my dog raw marrow bones. It takes him much longer to eat them compared to smoked bones. The raw ones are about $1 each in the freezer at the pet store, or slightly more when you buy them from a good butcher (e.g. Paulina)

I've also given him raw pigs ears that cost about $1 each at the farmers market. He seems to like these a lot also.

Eventually I'll get around to throwing some of this on the smoker, if I'm already smoking something and happen to have the bones around.

Kiba finds her own deer bones - and ears. They're raw and free.

Louisa Chu wrote:Kiba finds her own deer bones - and ears. They're raw and free.

Your Kiba and my sister's dogs all live pretty idyllic dog lives.

Kiba lives a pretty idyllic life - period. But she earned it.

dees_1 wrote:I found the recipe. I've had this for a really long time. It was (neatly) clipped out of a paper but I don't have the source information or the author's name. It is really simple and I've not met a dog who didn't like these.....I have to make some for the neighbor's dogs now!......

Although belated, I wanted to celebrate the one year anniversary of getting our dog. I finally found a mini bone shaped cookie cutter in Minneapolis. Some of the recipes required ingredients that I didn't have at home, but this recipe used kitchen staples. I came across it in the You Bake 'em Dog Biscuits Cookbook. I think the recipe yielded around 100 treats, so after I cut out all the bones, we froze half of them. He loves these.

Pucca, those treats look terrific!

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Does anyone understand the hypnotic affect of dog and cat treats? I never gave my cat a treat until a year or so ago. A friend's cat died, so I inherited the remaining food and some cat treats.

Never having offered treats, I wondered what her reaction might be. Instant success. I wished I had just dumped them, because quickly she came to expect treats. I try to give them to her at random times, just to keep her off guard. If I don't know where she is and she doesn't respond to her name, all I have to do is crinkle the package. The magical promise of a treat really works wonders in overcoming her stubborness.

Is it catnip?

Regards,

"Thank you for feeding us as well as you feed the dog," from my Dad today.

When I came back from shopping, I cooked the dog nephew a small hamburger. I had no plans to make hamburgers for everyone else, who I thought already ate lunch. Wrongo ... I then made EVERYONE a hamburger.

P.S. Dog's was well done. Everyone else was medium rare.