subject: Making Nutritious Homemade Dog Treats [print this page] If you have been training your dog the basic obedience commands for the past couple of days, you may have realized by now how important are dog treats to the training that you are conducting. However, you have also heard and read of some instances where dog treats were withdrawn from store shelves because they have been discovered to cause some type of illnesses to dogs.
So now, you are in a dilemma on what to reward your dogs with. If you are currently in this situation, do not worry or fret because you can always make your own homemade dog treat. All you need to do is to secure the necessary ingredients and prepare them on your regular kitchen utensils.
Homemade dog treats are gaining popular ground due to the perceived ill-effects of company manufactured and commercially available dog treats. Since your pet dog is almost a part of the family, you certainly do not want anything to happen to it, right? Preparing a homemade dog treat for your friendly pet is one way of ensuring that it gets only the right amount of minerals and nutrition to keep it healthy. Furthermore, since you will be the one preparing the ingredients for the dog treat, you can be sure that no other harmful food chemicals such as extenders and additives will be blended in with the homemade dog treat.
So how do you actually do it? There are various ways of preparing dog treats, and all of them entail using a number of different ingredients. One of the most famous involve blending six cups of whole wheat flour with a cup of milk, three eggs, eleven tablespoons of vegetable oil, two pinches of onion powder, two tablespoons of salt, and a cup of cold water.
Once you have a well-blended mixture, roll them into two-inch balls and bake them in a greased pan at three hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit for approximately forty minutes. Then let them cool and you will now have delicious dog treats for your pet that will last you for quite some time.
While buying commercially available dog treats is a convenient way of getting dog treats to give to your pet, current news reports about the ill-effects of some commercially manufactured warrants a stop to these purchases. Instead, try giving your dog some homemade dog treats. Not only will your pet love it, preparing the treat yourself will give you a great degree of satisfaction.
