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Homemade Dog Treats That Are Healthy and Delicious!
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items We love making our own dog treats at home whenever possible. This lets us have more control over the ingredients used, and reduce preservatives and junk in our dog's diets. Some of the treats we make actually help with keeping their teeth clean and c...
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Frozen Dog Treats
Baked Dog Treats
Our Favorite Supplies
Frozen Dog Treats
Frozen dog treats are a low effort way to control what is going into your dog's treats. Just mix and pour into a mold, or spread on a lick mat. These treats cool off our dogs and are a healthy alternative to the junk we see in a milk bone.
I love these recipes and have tried them all out on our dogs. I do want to caution that when using parsley, make sure it's curly parsley! I find that one of my dog is less keen on the green machine recipe unless I drizzle some honey before serving.
5 Frozen Dog Treat Ideas & Recipes
Blueberry yogurt is always a hit at our house. Adding a layer of yogurt and peanut butter gives it a peanut butter and jelly vibe too!
Homemade Frozen Dog Treats- Blueberry Yogurt Dog Treats
Literally a life saver in this house. We have some gnarly breathed dogs here. We also like to add a thin layer of coconut oil to ours to further help with breath.
Frozen Dog Treats (Mint FroYo for Fresh Breath!)
Cottage cheese is the magical dairy product! We love mixing it with various dog safe fruits as well to make sure our girls don't get sick of yogurt.
EmeryPets on Instagram: "Beetroot cottage cheese frozen dog treats recipe! They’re so easy to make! Recipe: -to a blender, add 3oz of plain cottage cheese, 1tsp of beetroot powder and 3oz of water -blend and set it aside -sprinkle a little bit of bee pollen into the treat mold and top it off with the mixture -freeze for 3-5 hours"
Cute molds are totally optional. This recipe uses a regular ice cube try and your dog's favorite treat. Just make sure you use an ice cube tray that is appropriately sized for your pup!
Quick and Easy Frozen Dog Treats for Summer, aka Copycat Frosty Paws
It's always good to add in some savory treats for our dogs. We use using bone broth because we are already using it in their food so it's not extra purchase on our part!
Beef Bone Broth Frozen Dog Treats
Baked Dog Treats
As our dogs expressed that they like frozen treats we started moving into baked treats to have more control over the ingredients used. Our dogs love them and so do we! There's no preservatives or weird chemicals involved.
The classic combo that most dogs love. These treats are quick and easy to make up as part of our Sunday meal prep efforts. Keep in mind that no preservatives means they keep for only a week unless you freeze them!
Easy Banana Peanut Butter Dog Treats!
We love these treats but have chosen to never use pumpkin pie spice due to nutmeg being toxic to dogs. We are light on the cinnamon and make sure we don't let these sit longer than a week!
Homemade Pumpkin Dog Treats
We love to incorporate carrots into our dog treats a lot! This one has been a fan favorite of all 3 of our dogs. Even the one that doesn't love carrots.
Peanut Butter & Carrot Homemade Dog Treat Recipe!
Sweet potatoes are a great carb addition to your dog treats that are still healthy! We make these a lot when we have sweet potatoes we know we won't finish on time.
Super Simple Sweet Potato Dog Treats
I like to switch it up between sweet, savory, and peanut butter. This is one of our go-to savory dog treats for the girls. No preservatives and protein from the yogurt!
Savory Homemade Dog Biscuits
I can't afford a dehydrator, or find a place to store one. So I make beef jerky for our dogs using my air fryer. You can also make these in the oven too!
Make Your Own Dog Friendly Beef Jerky
Our Favorite Supplies
We only started making treats at home about a year ago. We didn't want to invest a ton of money into it initially to see if we had the time, energy, and if our dogs even liked the outcomes of our efforts. These are the materials we started with that ...
Lick mats are a go to for us. Especially in the summer when we can freeze them as a nice way to help our dogs cool off and wind down after a walk or tearing around the back yard.
Large Lick Mats for Large Dogs
We love our Toppls because they make for great frozen treat dispensers for our big dogs. Because they are roly-poly it takes our girls a little longer to secure and finish them!
Toppl Treat Dispensers - For Frozen or dry treats
These are the cadillacs of treat molds. These silicon treat molds are not flimsy at all which means they won't spill everywhere when you move them. Also if you buy more than one, they are designed to stack on top of each other. It really helps with f...
High Quality Stackable Silicone Dog Treat Molds that Store Easily
These little molds were the first ones I ever bought and they were great to try out some recipes and get started. My only feedback is they are FLIMSY! So I always have to put them on a tray in our freezer which makes them not super space efficient.
Affordable Dog Treat Molds to Get Started
We use this broth for everything involving our dogs. Whether it's making carrot dental chews, frozen dog treats, or a topper on our senior dog's food. This stuff is safe for dogs and increases the flavor.
CARU Free Range Chicken Bone Broth
When I don't feel like messing with molds I make up some lick mats. We lose this size for our corgi but find our saints go through it pretty quickly! Best part is it's dishwasher safe.
Classic Buddy Slow Feeder Dog Lick Mat
This was our first cookie cutter shape and definitely still a go-to. It's a great option for just starting out especially if you have dogs of varying sizes like we do!
Bone Shapes Cookie Cutters
As I got into making dog treats more I wanted more fun cookie cutters. These were a must have for not only my own dogs, but to make gifts for other people's pups!
Cute Dog Stamp Cookie Cutters
I have 2 of these to store our frozen and our baked dog treats! I love these because it lets me organize by flavor which is a nice touch to keep things exciting for our dogs.
Divided Food Safe Tray For Treat Storage