Chicken dinner for the furbabies

[Stars Mom]

I have been cooking for my furbabies for several years. This is my basic recipe that I sometimes change by adding 1/2 cup of barley and/or 1 cup of oatmeal.
I cook in a very large dutch oven pot and do not skin  the chicken until it is almost done.
I use a whole chicken or sometimes a 10 pound bag of thighs and legs. While it's cooking in boiling water, I brown 1 pound of ground turkey or 1 pound of ground beef in another pan with a little olive oil. I put the veggies through the food processor (several carrots, 1 sweet potatoe, 1 Zucchini, 1 or 2 yellow squash, broccoli, and green beans). Remove the chicken to a plate to cool so you can  skin, debone and chop. Add 1 cup brown rice to the pot and cook acording to directions on rice package.This would be the time to add the barley also.  Return  chopped chicken and ground meat to pot. When almost done I add the veggies so they just steam.  Mix everything together and take up in freezer containers. I use one pound butter containers and one will feed 5 small (maltese/yorkie size) for one day. I take one out of the freezer to the fridge to defrost and then warm in the microwave to feed. This makes about 12 or 14 butter containers, enough for my five for about 2 weeks.
When I am ready to feed them I sometimes add salmon, or sardines, or scrambled eggs, cheese, cottage cheese, or yogart to make it a little different for them. My furbabies love this food and have stayed healthy for about six years eating it. I also free feed kibble.
For snacks they like apple, carrots, asparagus, sweet potatos, green peas, brocolli or green beans (all raw). They also like Cherrios and Vinna sausage. 

[Tommyboy]

Any good dog cookie, biscuit recipes?

[Cindy Nevarez]

I got this recipe from a Cocker Spaniel Rescue who I helped out a bit. I'll have to be honest though, I have not yet tried it. But here it is; It's actually called "Birthday Cake for Pups"

1.5 cups all purpose flour
1.5 teas. baking powder
.5 cup soft butter
.5 cup corn oil
1 baby food beef meat - strained
4 eggs
2 -3 strips beef jerky

P.H. oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour 8X5X3 inch pan. Cream butter until smooth. Add oil, baby food, and eggs. Mix until smooth.

Mix dry ingrediants into beef mixture until batter is smooth. Crumble beef jerky and fold into batter. Pour batter into pan. Bake 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cool on wire rack 15 minutes. Ice with plain yogurt or cottage cheese. Store uneaten cake in frig.

If I did make this I probably would change the all pupose flour to a whole grain one, and then have to up the baking powder a bit, since whole grain flour tends to make baked goods a little more heavy.

Let me know if you try it, and how it turns out.

[Stars Mom]

Peamutt Butter Doggy Bones

2 Tablespoon Olive oil
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 cup water
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 cups white flour

Preheat oven to 350. Combine oil, peanut butter, and water.
Add flour 1 cup at a time.
Kneed into firm dough. Roll dough to 1/4 thickness and cut with cookie cutter.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.
If you want harder bones, leave in the oven to cool.

[Stars Mom]

Dog Muffins
1 pound ground beef or turkey or lamb
choose one or two veggies
      squash, carrot, broccoli green beans
2-3 eggs
2 tab olive oil
old fashion oats
cottage or recotta cheese
oven to 350
boil meat and remove from heat
grate veggie
beat eggs with olive oil
add to veggie ...add ground meat
add broth from meat
add enough oats to keep muffins together
add cheese
spoon into muffin tin or cookie sheet
bake 6-8 minutes
freeze

You can add apple, honey, cinamon,chedder cheese or peanut butter