Cooking for Dogs -Fall 2007 -Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog Club

Cooking for Dogs -Fall 2007
by Valerie Sharp

Homemade Kibble
Canine Kibble by Back Home Staff, Issue July/Aug 2007
3 cups Hot Water
2 cups uncooked Oatmeal (not Instant)
1 Stick Butter
2 low Sodium Bouillon cubes
1 and half cups powered milk or buttermilk
2 eggs beaten
5 cups of whole wheat flour
1/2 cup rye Flour
1/2 cup wheat Germ
1 teaspoon Garlic Salt

In a Large Mixing bowl pour hot water over oatmeal, butter and bouillon. Let stand five min. Stir in Powdered milk, cornmeal and eggs. Add remaining ingredients a little a time until well blended. Knead Dough with dough hook or by hand until its smooth and Shiny. Divide in two and spread each on oil-sprayed cookie Sheet, pushing with fingers to the edges , score Deeping into tiny 1 inch or less squares. Bake one and half hours, Cool , when cold and hard, break apart, makes about 4 pounds, place in zippered bag..


So here is the New version.

Fish Kibble
3 cups Hot Water
2 cups uncooked Oatmeal (not Instant)
1 cup olive oil
1 and half cups powered milk or buttermilk
6 eggs beaten
6- 8 cups of whole wheat flour
1/2 cup rye Flour
1/2 cup wheat Germ
3 grated whole apples
One large can of Herring (mashed well)

Follow the directions above, depending on the size of your eggs and the size of the fish can, you might need more flour..

Chicken or Rabbit Stew
6 pds of white meat
2 tablespoons Food-Grade Bone Meal Powder
8 cups Cooked Brown Rice
4 cups oatmeal
6 eggs beaten
1/2 cup of Olive oil
2 Sweet Potatoes or Turnip or one large can plain Pumpkin
2 or 3 broccoli stems cut up or one can of green beans1 large bag of Spinach or the tops of any greens available in your garden, including Dandelions or Pigweed.

Add your meat to large pot and cover with water to simmer, if at all possible, please make sure your meats still have bone in, you want all the goodness in the bones to leach into the broth. I like to simmer that for at least 2 to 4 hours.

Then take the meat and bones out, and take out the bones and the meat.

At the rest of the stew into the left over broth with any added water required, and then cook all together until its soft and mushy.

Cool and Bag into 1 or 2 cup containers (yogurt is a great size, and that way you can recycle to boot).

The dogs and cats LOVE IT, its a lot of work to me, but I had a total of 100% happy JOY-JOY rubs from this dish so that is a 4 paws up dish.

I made mine with Rabbit but Chicken legs could be used instead and often go on sale.