How To: Make dog treats with your leftover grains!

[RobWalker]

I've been making these for quite a while. Some variations: leave out the peanut butter and add gravy granules ( my dog's favourite) or marmite.

I started taking them down to my dog friendly local and there's now a thriving swap system - liver cake is very popular.

Strangest thing is that most of my mates tuck in - what with the price of a packet of crisps now being 15 shillings!

I can't resist either, even though they're pretty crap by human standards.

Added your additions to the recipe, peanut butter is expensive!

 

[BrotherMalice]

Made some of these last night while I was waiting for the boil to finish on AG1 - lets hope the dog likes them :)

 

[regaltabs]

I did some at the weekend and my bull terrier loves them. :thumb:

 

[BrotherMalice]

My dog is back tomorrow so will be interesting to see if she likes them :)

 

[jinxy72]

i make these for mine every brew .. they love them :thumb:

 

[BrotherMalice]

I tried one the other day, tasted very much like ryveta...

 

[Jeltz]

Great idea and I'll have to give it a try when I start doung AG. Just one note of caution though is that I tend to avoid using anything which contains onion or onion powder as it causes red blood cell damage in dogs and, like humans, feeding highly salty foods is a bad idea, You can actually buy dog gravy (i.e. gravy for dogs not like chicken gravy :?) which I understand is low in salt and free from onion for that reason.

My local butcher sells minced offal for pets (25p for about 400g) so I would probably mix the grain with that but I have a Labrador so she will eat anything we put in front of her.

 

[RobWalker]

yeah, that's true. same with garlic hops chocolate and cheese too - don't put them in.

 

[The Goatreich]

Just knocking some of these up now with the gravy granule recipe. I'll purchase some dog gravy for the next batch I think. I'm not sure it's economically worth it with oven being on for 8 hours, albeit at a low temperature, but what the hell it's a bit of fun.

 

[RobWalker]

Mine are usually done in 2 with 20 mins at gas mark 4 before that to be honest. It's just to dry them out, you could probably leave them in the sun. Or don't dry them and use them quick, my dog loves em.

 

[The Goatreich]

Turns out I forgot I had made them and they were in the oven for....8 hours. Tidy.

 

[bobsbeer]

Thanks for this recipe. :thumb: Made a batch and our dog loves them. I used half the amount of gravy granules as there is way too much salt in gravy granules, but I had a taste and they taste good. :whistle:

 

[lukehgriffiths]

Recalled this during my last brew got an alternative for you all whack em in ice cube trays and freeze perfect summer dog treat... Has worked fine for me.