Frozen Natural Dog Treats

I don't know about you, but our dog, Shooter loves this weather!  He will swim and run until he passes out and we always keep an eye on him for an hour or so after we get back inside in case he overheats.  Over protective much? Probably.  However, to alleviate this we made some wonderfully tasting frozen summer time dog treats; all natural!  And, surprise surprise... he LOVES them!  Give these easy dog treats a try for your active pup and keep them cool and healthy all summer long!

 

We made three different flavors for Shooter; mainly because I had so many left over dog favored foods!  We had a few bananas that were too ripe to eat, and half a sweet potato left after we made fries last week.  Plus peanut butter... what dog doesn't love peanut butter?! 

 



Ingredients:

Peanut Butter

Sweet Potato

Banana

Low fat milk/almond milk/organic yogurt.... (your choice; I used what we had, low fat milk)

Dry oats

Honey

 

Cook Time:

20 mins

 

*Food processor is also helpful here

 

 

 

 

First, we made sweet potato treats.  Peel, cut and boil sweet potato.  Place into food processor with oats, milk and honey.  Test out the consistency and place into ice cube tray.  Freeze and enjoy! 

 

Keep going with any flavors your dog likes.  Like we said, Shooter loves peanut butter so we made a batch with peanut butter, oats, milk and honey.  Make sure to stay away from flavors that are bad dogs... i.e. chocolate, raisins, grapes, garlic. Also watch using the milk if you know your dog has an allergy to protein.  If that is the case, yogurt is a better option. 

 

The bananas were the same, use your bananas and add oats, honey and milk. 

 

When removing the treats from the trays, we found that it was easier to use a butter knife and cut the treats out.  Feed to your dog right away; they melt fast!!