Easy Homemade Cookies for Dogs

When commercial dog food manufacturers create dog treats, you are typically their point of interest, not your dog. This is why the products come in various cute shapes and colors. According to the "Handbook of Applied Dog Behaviour and Training," "the canine eye is composed of more rods than cones in comparison to the human eye." The author Steven R. Lindsay, states that the canine eye has only "...3%" cones, giving the dog better vision...suited for discriminating light and dark and detecting movement than seeing color and detail." Therefore, your dog is more interested in the taste of food only, not the other characteristics.

  1. Carrot Cookies

    • To prepare this cookie, the ingredients are boiled and pureed carrot (2 cups), large eggs (2), minced garlic (2 tablespoon), unbleached flour (2 cups), rolled oats (1 cup), and rice flour (1/4 cup). First, mix the carrot, egg and garlic smoothly and then add the dry ingredients to it. Then, you have to roll this out and cut it into some desired shapes. Bake it at a temperature of 300 degrees for around 45 minutes or until it becomes crunchy. After baking it you can give it a glossier look by brushing it with egg whites.

    Soft Doggie Cookies

    • Key ingredients for this cookie are baby food in the form of beef or chicken (3 jars, each with 2 ½ ounces), milk powder (1/4 cup), wheat germ (1/4 cup). To prepare this, you have to mix all the ingredients in a bowl and then roll the mixture into balls. Use a fork to flatten the balls slightly. Bake until brown. Cool in a refrigerator and your soft doggie cookies are ready to serve.

    Lab Liver Chip Cookies

    • In order to prepare this cookie, you will need chopped dried liver (1/4 cup), melted butter (1/3 cup), 1 egg, whole wheat flour (2 cups) and 6 tablespoon of water. In the next step, you will have to blend the mixture of flour, butter, egg and water into the liver pieces. Now, bake these in a preheated oven for around 20 minutes. Lab liver chip cookies are ready to serve after cooling.

    Beefy Doggie Cookies

    • As the name suggests, if you want to make this cookie for your dog, you will need around 2 tablespoon of beef bouillon powder and another ½ tablespoon of marmite (a thick, dark brown spread made from concentrated yeast). Other requirements are whole wheat flour (2 cups), 1 egg, 1 tablespoon of oil, and hot water (1 cup).

      You have to mix all the ingredients very well, and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Roll out on a hard surface and cut individual pieces into a size of your choosing. Bake the pieces on a cookie sheet until they turn hard. Let it cool for some time.