MInty fresh breath biscuits (Ingredients)

If you're anything like me you can't stand stinky dog breath.  Sure I've done the whole brushing my bog's teeth, but that is really not as easy as it sounds.  That actually got me to thinking about those dog treats that are supposed to freshen their breath.  I thought why not make something like that at home?  After some research I found that mint is perfectly safe for dogs, and we have a very large fresh mint plant in our front yard.  Since only a couple of the dogs like the fresh mint I had to mix it with parsley  for the dogs that don't.  For some reason they like the parsley better.  Honestly if all the dogs were like my dad's I wouldn't have even needed to make these since Bear stole a mint leaf and ate it giving him very minty fresh breath. lol. I won't share the exact recipe for this one, but I will give you a list of what I used because there is nothing worse then stinky dog breath and every dog has their limit of mint they will eat.

Minty fresh dog biscuits.

Ingredients:

Fresh mint

Fresh Parsley

whole wheat flour

egg

water

oil and or grease (I find the dogs like either coconut oil or bacon grease the most)

Pumpkin Fruit Sticks (recipe)

I've been trying to work in a variety of fruits and veggies into the dog's diet. I tried to alter one of my recipes to get the dogs to eat fruit because fruit is good for them.  The dogs liked them, but I wasn't all that happy with this recipe.  The biscuits didn't get as hard as I would have liked. 

Ok so these ones don't look like sticks, but you can put them in a piping back and make them look like sticks.

Pumpkin and fruit sticks

Ingredients:

3TBS  Pumpkin (Canned or freshly cooked but no pumpkin pie filling)

1TBS  Each Powdered Milk, Bone Meal, & Fish Oil

2TBS  Nutritional Yeast

2TBS  Bacon Grease

1         Mashed Banana

2         Egg

½ C    Assorted diced fruit (blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries)

1         Orange squeezed (make sure you only use the juice and pulp but not seeds)

2C      Unbleached Whole Wheat Flour

Directions:

Preheat oven 300®

Mix all ingredients but flour in bowl until completely combined. 

Slowly add flour, mixing periodically.

Put into pastry bag and squeeze out onto parchment paper lined cookie sheet in long sticks. 

Bake for 10 minutes, or until cooked.

Let cool and serve up to puppies.