Food is not everything.
There is also the time between feeding. Time for treats :)
Especially for keeping your dogs busy with entertaining tasks, new challenges, small games, there is always the need for treats.
And best case, your dog is not only totally crazy about them, but they are also healthy.
Pet food industry is turning food production waste into snacks, treats, and goodies for our pets, investing huge amounts of money for marketing to design shiny packaging, catchy names and to sell us the belief that this upgraded, highly processed and chemically treated garbage contains tons of valuable ingredients.
(For an intro worth reading on pet food industry I recommend "Katzen würden Mäuse kaufen", but better dont tell your pets, they will lose their appetite.)
Actually the idea of making pet food from garbage is not so stupid at all, considering everything that is thrown away in todays first world societies.
Why not use all those leftovers from our food? This is the basis of all history of domestication, the dog at the side of man, of the last 15somethingthousand years, isnt it?
Then lets go and lets do this properly, and so easy.
Recipe:
Step one:
Make a super healthy juice for yourself using for example
2 carrots
1-2 apples
1 beetroot
1 celery
I recomment using a slow juicer. With a slow juicer, the loss of nutrients through the juicing process is reduced to the absolute minimum.
Step 2:
- For the treats, keep the pomace.
- After enjoying your fresh juice, mix the pomace together with a bit of oil (i.e. linseed oil) and a handfull of sunflower seeds.
- Scoop and form small balls from the blend.
- Put your treats for 10h at 40degrees into a food dryer or oven, until they are completely dry.
Step 3:
- Let your dog taste your creation.
- Store the treats dry at room temperature up to 2 weeks.
These treats contain only good, natural and fresh ingredients with high value for your dogs health.
At the same time you dont have to spend money on overpriced junk food, but use mostly ingredients you would have thrown away otherwise.
