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Dog Treat Recipe: Sardine Salad – Video

Dog training, dog treat, dog treat recipe, dog obedience, Frederick, clicker, Smart Dog UniversityRaise your hand if your dog is a picky eater! Good, this dog treat recipe is for you!

It’s also a recipe for you, if you have:

  • the Labrador who’ll eat rocks — and thank you for them — if you put it in his bowl
  • the sick dog who doesn’t want to take her pill
  • the dog celebrating a birthday or milestone
  • the curiosity about a treat made with sardines

This recipe is adapted from the good folks at The Honest Kitchen and it’s loaded with antioxidants.

Try it, your dog will thank you (and clean the bowl)!

There are only a few ingredients (yay!) and it’s super easy to make (no electricity required – double yay!). You can make this up in a hurry and your dog can enjoy it right away.

Ingredients:

1 tin of sardines

1/4 c diced green beans (blanched)

1/4 c diced cucumber

1/4 c cottage cheese

Directions:

  1. Dump sardines into medium bowl, mash up large pieces with a fork.
  2. Add remaining ingredients and mix well with large spoon.
  3. Spoon as much as desired* directly onto your dog’s food.
  4. Serve and watch how quickly it goes!

Refrigerate unused portion and use within a few days.

*Chef’s Notes on Serving Size: I put about 1/4 c of the salad on top of each dogs’ food. I have Labradors and a Dane/Hound mix. The Labradors weigh about 60 pounds, and the Dane mix weighs about 85 pounds.

What did your dog think of this dog treat recipe?

Any tweaks you made to your recipe that you’d like to share? Leave a comment below, we’d love to hear from you.

Dog Treat DIY: Easy, Healthy Homemade Dog Biscuits – Video

I’m not a chef, but I do like to make yummy dog treats for my dogs!

The easier the dog biscuits are to make, the better the chance that I’ll actually make ’em. Here’s what I like the most about cooking for my dogs: they’ll eat anything! It doesn’t matter what it looks like — or really, what it tastes like — they love everything!

For Schoon’s birthday — the big lug is one already — he got some homemade cheesy dog biscuits.dog treats, dog biscuits, homemade dog, DIY

Handmade by moi! They’re so easy, they’d actually be a great project for the kids to get involved with, too.

Here’s how easy they are.

Ingredients:

1/3 cup water
1/3 cup cheddar cheese
1/3 cup applesauce
1/4 cup parmesan cheese

1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup oats

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 375°.
  2. Combine flour and oats in medium bowl.
  3. Add water, cheeses, and applesauce to flour mixture.
  4. Knead the ingredients until thoroughly mixed.
  5. Turn out onto a floured surface and roll to about 1/4″ thickness.
  6. Cut biscuits with cookie cutters.
  7. Place on a cookie sheet with non-stick spray.
  8. Bake for about 20 minutes or until browned.
  9. Cool and let your dog enjoy a snack!

Talk Back.

Do you have a favorite snack to make for your dog? Leave a comment and let us know!

Dog Treats: Quick, Healthy, Easy Frozen Doggie Treats with Yogurt



Looking for a quick, easy and almost free dog treat? Here’s a way to thwart waste and give your dogs a delicious treat.

I bought more greek yogurt than I could eat. The expiration dates were looming and I knew I wasn’t going to get them all in my belly before they expired. Instead of pitching all that delicious yogurt, I simply moved the containers from the fridge to the freezer.

In just a couple of hours, I had a free dog treat for my dogs. 

Here’s what I like:

  • it’s so easy
  • they are free (well, sort of. I was going to throw it away, so it would have gone to waste otherwise)
  • good for the dogs
  • it takes a while for the dogs to lick the frozen yogurt out of the tubs
  • the pup thinks those tubs are the best puppy toys in the world and bats them hither and thither all through the house — free entertainment!
  • it gives the dog a change from the standard peanut butter stuffed Kongs

Dannon didn’t give me anything to write this blog post. Heck, they don’t even know I exist. You can make these dog treats with any kind of yogurt, but we love Dannon Oikos yogurt the most in this house. And judging by how quickly the dogs devoured their frozen yogurt, I’d say they were big Oikos fans, too!

What free and easy dog treats have you created for your dogs? Share with us in the comments below!

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