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Recipe Roundup: Homemade Pet Treats

It's Pet Design Month over at our AT home sites, so we thought we'd throw a little Kitchn love out to the four-legged crowd. If we're going to celebrate healthy home cooking in September, who's to say dogs and cats can't be part of it? Get recipes, below...

With pet food recalls on the rise (there was another yesterday), it does make sense that homemade pet food—made with animal-friendly ingredients—is safer. That is, if you have the time to be making from-scratch food for your cat or dog. Maybe start with a special occasion dog biscuit and see how it goes.

Here are some resources:

Homemade Pet Food, with dog and cat recipes, plus a list of ingredients to avoid, from All Recipes
Bacon Dog Biscuits and Canine Quiche, from Healthy Dog Food
Dog Biscuits, from Martha Stewart
Savory Cheese Treats and Chick N'Biscuits for cats, from Pet Place
Homemade Dog Food Recipes, from CD Kitchen
Homemade Cat Food Recipes, from CD Kitchen

(Image: Flickr member nyominx, licensed under Creative Commons)

Comments (7)

If you bake for your pets or refer to them as "children" then someone needs to slap you.

posted by protogarrett on September 16th 2008 at 11:44am
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Well, slap me and call me Sally! My fur-babies love their home-made peanut butter treats.

:^)

posted by kibitzknitz on September 16th 2008 at 12:08pm
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What an incredibly rude and ignorant thing to say, protogarrett.

posted by confusednazgul on September 16th 2008 at 1:57pm
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Thanks for posting these. I'm a huge believer in feeding dogs as natural diet as possible.

I do indeed cook and bake for my dogs, and don't appreciate protogarrett's comment. I can't/won't have children due to progessive illness and my pets have been there for me in moments few humans could understand.

Perhaps you need someone in your life who will unconditionally love you?

posted by bobcatsteph3 on September 16th 2008 at 4:51pm
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there are some links here to homemade peanutbutter dog treats.
http://jenyu.net/blog/2007/11/28/something-for-them/
http://jenyu.net/blog/2006/12/14/paw-and-order-culinary-intent/
use real butter is a great blog!

posted by hayy on September 17th 2008 at 12:18am
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I once made cookies for my neighbors for Christmas. Since they all had dogs, I included some homemade dog biscuits shaped like bones. A few days later one of my neighbors thanked me for the cookies saying how much she enjoyed them even the one that wasn't sweet (though she looked very confused when she said it). I didn't have the heart to tell her.

posted by twosavoie on September 17th 2008 at 3:12pm
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twosavoie, that's hilarious!
I realize I'm a little late on this post but has anyone tried making dog treats similar to those dried-out sweet potato spears? My dog is allergic to wheat - among many other things - so I buy those for him, but they are stupid-expensive and I'd like to try making them myself. I am thinking of just baking sweet potato pieces in a very low temp. oven for a few hours until they look dried-out and chewy.

posted by Tiny Banquet on September 19th 2008 at 1:51pm
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