Pupsicle Recipes

Ode to Baxter & Miss Bludog  ( Bax asked about it recipes so I thought I'd kick my buns into gear and do a blog posty ... I had to wipe all the DUST from the poor blog first tho..  heehee ) 

Please note that when making treats for your fur babies you ALWAYS want to read ingredients.  Xylitol, Sorbitol, Aspartame, Splenda are ALL no no's for furbabies and can be quite lethal.   Low fat yogurts often sub the real sugar for the fake.  Fake sugars convert into carcinogens and sometimes even formaldehyde  in the human body and they can be lethal for dogs.  Something to think about if you use them yourself. 

Salt is another contender for furbabies.  Try to find low salt items.  A little more fat isn't so bad sometimes as a good game of chase the ball or walkies can help that lil bit of fat take a hike.


These ones are tried by my Weens and loved.  ( so far that is .. sometimes something good can get old ya know?  If I ate too many hershey bars ... well I might get sick of them ... HA who are we kidding.  :)  )



Water
Pineapple Juice

Mix both evenly to taste and freeze.
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Mashed Banana
Vanilla or plain yogurt
Honey
Peanut Butter

Blend all ingredients thoroughly in a blender until creamy and smooth.  Freeze.
5 hours or more.
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Chicken Broth ( try to find one with reduced sodium .. better for you and pup too )
Water
1-2 small cheese cubes per treat

Mix chicken broth and water.  Add cheese cubes and Freeze. 
You can also substitute beef broth for chicken and small chunks of meat for the cheese chunks.

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Mashed Kiwis or jar of baby fruit
Strawberry yogurt

mix together and freeze.
gentle on the teeth too as frozen yogurt is softer than frozen water. Good for elder pups.

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Variety of "safe" fruits
Unsweetened Fruit juice ( make sure there isn't grape in it )
Vanilla yogurt

Honey

Blend the fruit until smooth.  Add juice.  Add yogurt to thicken, honey for the extra sweet, puree until smooth and freeze.

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Vanilla Yogurt
Peanut Butter

Warm peanut butter in microwave, mix yogurt and peanut butter until blended. Freeze.

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Peanut Butter
Mashed Banana
Unsalted Peanuts ( or cheat and use chunky peanut butter .. look for low sodium or natural tho. )
Mix peanut butter with banana, add a spoonful of honey if you like and a little water to help it freeze better and add peanuts for the crunch.  Freeze.

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Apple sauce
Plain Vanilla
Water

Blend until smooth and freeze

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Mishka's personal favorite ....

Green Beans
Plain yogurt
Chicken Broth

Blend  yogurt and broth to a thick consistency and then place green beans upright in the mix ( ice cube tray works best for this one )

Mishka likes to nab the frozen green beanie and trot around with his treasure until it breaks off from thawing. Ha!

Yes ... btw.. I have a new puppy for those that notice the blog and do not know me from adam any other way on the net.

Some baby goodness for you.  : ) 

finds..

Sometimes I don't feel like typing much but would rather just share photos instead.  :)




Poor baby has a battle wound .. she's tailess..


Salt & Pepper shakers.. *luvs*



Reminds me a little of Kai .. so chocolaty



Paper treasures..  : )

Molly asks for some prayers please ???

HUGE freakin sigh here.  I just finished stuffing my face with some sympathy McDonalds because I'm stressing out a wee bit.  On the 16th, my Birthday, we got home, Aaron let the babes out to potty while I took a shower.  He wandered into the bathroom and was asking me is Molly ok.  "why?"   Well she was crying at the back door to come in and then crying at the garage door to come in.  ( they go out through the garage to the outside door to potty, back into the garage on a little indoor outdoor carpetted area to have 5-10 minutes of paw dry off time then back into the house through the house/garage door )  He said he picked her up and she cried a bit.  So I finished my shower and as I dried off I said put her in front of me.  I did and she was rather timid.  I know she got in trouble by Aaron for not going out like she should and he picked her up by the scruff ( which PISSES me off to no end ... we had a lengthy talk about it  ) so I figured she was being coy as she got into trouble but either way I decided to crate her until I could read up a bit more.  Got dressed, fed then crated her on her own as they usually camp out in a pile in the big crate at night. 

Tried doing the potty in the backyard on a leash thing.  She wouldn't do it so I unleashed her and let her do her thing.  Pee's n poops just fine but that head is still cocked sideways.  Now she's had little ear aches here and there.  It's raining and yuck so from what I have read and what the vet even said today it's a hound thing.   Well this morning she whimpered and cried while she was eating.  So I called the vet.  Went in at 10:20. 

Checked her out, said she was lovely. *prideful face*  Said both her ears look good, one is a bit more pinkish than the other and said he didn't "think" it was her ear but said that I could most likely just give her 1/2 baby aspirin, well then I thought about the eating/food/whine and he said oh?  So he walked around the table a couple of times and of course Miss Curious tried to watch him but she was keeping her head crooked to one side.  So now he is thinking it could be her neck.

 He said for the time being to keep her settled with crate rest, changed the aspirin to Dexamethasone (Anti-inflamammatory 5mg) twice daily for a week, and to call him if any changes for the worse. I mentined IVDD and he said that yes they are prone to it but he's really feeling at this point that she may have pulled a muscle.  I thought about things for a moment and rather embarrassingly admitted that she was having "quite the hump fest" last week.  I have never seen such a naughty wee thing.  She was a wild woman last week.  He of course laughed and said "maybe"    This is my second experience with Dr. Osburn and I felt extremely pleased just being in his presence.  He even whipped a few books down and showed me other little things they can have issues with that I didn't know.  I wish I could have snagged the book.  : )

So there tis.. Molly is on crate rest, refuses to look at me, I've made her a little rice filled sock lovie to nuke in the microwave which she is loving greatly, I have been hunting for one of the little kongs so I can make a frozen om nom nom for her but Kai .. my beloved wee one has hidden them both well.  Argh!!

Any other low fat suggestions would be wonderful.   Molly is NOW at her ideal weight as well.  WOO!!!!  11.07  He said that was excellent for her.  We've worked so hard to thin her royal stockiness down but hey when Rome isn't built in a day I didn't want to tear it down in a day. 


refusing to speak to me. 


stinkasaurus eye...




for those on DBB this is a double postie..