The Dog Walks Me

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  • Dehyrating pet treats

    Dehyrating pet treats

     

    dehydrating beef liver

    So because I’ve been taking more photos recently since joining Instagram @mywhiskeygirl, I’ve also been paying out much more treats for beautiful Whiskey poses. Whiskey (and most dogs) don’t work for free! My cat Moo, also gets treats daily for using the human toilet, and just being cute 🙂 There are cheaper treats out there (using flour or chicken meal) but of course, my pets prefer the more expensive ones which tend to be the one-ingredient dehydrated meat! It also makes me feel better knowing I don’t have to count how many I give her calorie-wise although I am much poorer for it.

    local beef liver from our raw food provider

    Eventually, I started thinking to make my own treats by purchasing a dehydrator off Amazon and asking my regular dog-meat provider for extra beef liver to make treats. I got a larger tray dehydrator because it seemed quieter and had a fan so you didn’t need to constantly rotate the trays for even drying. However, I would have liked a timer on the dehydrator so I could have it run overnight without waking up to turn it off.

    chop up liver into smaller slices
    Lay out liver on trays
    Dehydration turned out super simple, especially if your meat provider has already sliced up the meat ahead of time. Just make sure the meat is fully dried and keep them in the fridge or freezer if you are not using them immediately. I also chop them into smaller pieces to make handouts easier. Of course, you can also hydrate human food too (we’ve done beef jerky but I’ve yet to get the recipe perfect).
    Dehydrate at highest temperature until fully dry at thickest parts
    Finished treats, chop up for handouts
  • Getting ready

    Getting ready

    Oh man!!!  We are so excited!!!  You can tell by the amount of exclamation marks 🙂  So we’ve done a bunch of research over at least a year and have settled on a breed (Vizsla, obviously), breeder, and we await our first puppy together.  My partner has had dogs his whole life with his family but this would be my first ever dog, and just a couple months ago we got our first cat.

    Moo is a rescue that came to us from VOKRA.  She’s been the perfect pre-puppy since she’s pretty much a dog in-disguise.   We quickly discovered she’ll do anything for treats and we’ve already had her successfully trained to “come” “sit” “lie down” “roll over” “paw” and go to where we point.  We choose a confident cat, and have made her a bunch of cat shelves she can escape to in case of stress, though we know that it would take awhile for any cat to get used to a crazy puppy.

    So with the cat trained up, we’ve been reading a couple books and watching tv shows (Ian Dunbar, Ceasar Milan, Victoria Stilwell), talking to friends, stalking Vizslas and their owners in dog parks, and going on dog-supply shopping sprees.  Who would have known it could cost so much before getting the puppy?  Cats are practically free!  Here is our puppy list:

    -crate

    -baby gates

    -kongs

    -balls

    -chew toys: antlers, nylabones, bullysticks

    -food

    -treats

    -food bowls

    -beds

    -puppy pee pads (use for plane only)

    -plane-approved carrier

    -collar

    -leash (we got several types)

    -tooth brush and paste

    -shampoo, ear cleaner, styptic powder

    -bleach (for cleaning her outdoor pee place)

    -dremel (for nails)

    -poop bags

    -a good insurance company

     
    Moo inspects the goods