As promised; a fun, easy and healthy treat for dogs, with some serious benefits, and a few variations so you can make it to suit your own dog’s unique tendencies. I made this for my three, not as a meal (it’s not a balanced diet!) but to use as topper for some of their meals, […]

Every summer, a  few frozen treat recipes start to appear around the internet,  usually yogurt based, with additions like sardines and salmon and blueberries – all good stuff. I  started to wonder if I might not concoct a few such treats myself, maybe with a  twist here and there –  and share them here and […]

So, this time of year always brings out a few recipes for home made “wax” that can be applied to a dog’s paws and act as a barrier against cold, salt and gritty stuff during walks in the cold wintertime.  I make this stuff every year too, with a few of my own twists, so […]

Hello all, and a very happy Holiday to everyone! Whatever you celebrate (and tonight is Christmas Eve) I hope this season finds you well, hopeful, healthy and at peace. I and my little zoo here in the Gatineau Hills are enjoying a respite from the extreme cold, and some happy, lazy, playful downtime as well. […]

Seems that everywhere I look, people are baking and starting shopping lists for holiday food – and many are asking me what’s safe to give their dogs, for  a special meal, too. Everyone knows I’m a great supporter of feeding a fresh food diet, whether raw or cooked; at the same time I always stress […]

…well, that fell by the wayside with all the other stuff I have to get done all the time. However – I do bake cookies and other treats for dogs, and once in a while I hit on a tasty and healthy delight I have to share. Today is one of those days. Fiddling around […]

An updated  low-carb, grainfree version of the recipe I posted a few years ago, which included rice as part of the carb portion (and I no longer use rice, unless it is therapeutically necessary). Note that this is a higher fat diet, and so may not be suitable for all dogs. Some may require lower […]

This morning I am pleased to share a recipe from a good friend and former student of mine, Ellyn Grubbe of Denmark. Ellyn completed both my Basic Nutrition course and the Advanced Canine Nutrition programme at CASI,  has been a keen nutrition student as long as I’ve known her – and is now a consultant […]

As promised, here are some follow-up comments with regard to the recipe. I’ve based most of them on what my students have asked – I assigned this entry to the class, to see if they might come up with questions. And,  clever bunch of keeners that they are, they hit on just about everything. So, […]

Update on this entry! Eight years ago I shared a turkey/rice/beef/sweet potato recipe, and while many people used it or variations and their dogs did superbly well, times change, we all keep learning and growing, so I am going at the bottom of this entry, to add an updated version. At the time I wrote […]

Life can get pretty dull if we take everything oh so seriously; that includes the topic at hand, which I take very seriously, as it is my life’s work. That said, I appreciate a little whimsy from time to time, and so do my dogs. Well, they appreciate most everything, but isn’t that part of […]