My Dog Diary

Xiao Bi started having diarrhea about 3 days ago and I’ve got darl to get me a slice of pumpkin for her. The smallest slice that we could get was still too big for her to finish. lol. So when I was googling around for some pumpkin’s benefits, I’ve landed on a recipe for Pumpkin Dog Biscuits. Sounds pretty easy and I’ve decided to make some up.

Ingredients:

2 eggs

1/2 cup canned pumpkin (in my case, I used raw pumpkin. Simmered to tender and mashed them up)

1/2 teaspoon salt (I only added a very small pinch)

2 tablespoon dry milk (I didn’t have dry milk in hand so I used about 1/2 cup of full cream milk)

2 1/2 cup flour (whole wheat flour recommended)

Water

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (that is about 175 degrees C).

2. Blend eggs and pumpkin together. Add salt, dry milk, and flour. Add water as needed. The dough should be dry and stiff.

3. Roll to 1/2 inch thick.

4. Cut into shapes. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.

5. Bake for 20 minutes on one side, then turn over and bake for another 20 minutes.

While I didn’t have cookie cutter in hand, I just picked up via hand and placed small pieces on the cookie sheet. Also, I think it wouldn’t harm to slightly grease the sheet. It’s really hard to get the cookies turned over!

Mine turned out like this. I think I’ve put a bit too much of water and the inner part just wouldn’t get hard. I cracked the bigger pieces to smaller bite size chunks and baked again for another 10 minutes. Got better but still kinda soft inside. Anyway, I gave Xiao Bi a few pieces and she loved it!

I think I’m going to pack a few and give her friend this evening. It’s a thumbs up healthy treat and I hope he’ll like it too.

As of today, I’m really proud to say that I’ve been able to bring Xiao Bi out for her normally evening, sometimes morning walk for a continuous 2-3 weeks!

I believe I wouldn’t be able to do it for so long, if it wasn’t because of Xiao Bi’s friend, Bobby, and his friendly master. Xiao Bi has never been so happy before and I really can see that she is looking forward everyday for her walking time to have a little play time with Bobby. And really, Bobby’s master has been very supportive and always allow them to play for a really long time. Sometimes they just wrestled on the road for a good 45 minutes to an hour! And that’s the time we had chit chats on their diet, exercise, behaviour, etc.. It’s so fun to have someone accompanying the normally boring walk and have knowledge and info exchange at the same time!

Looking at the very steady Bobby always makes me more confident in trainng the forever rebellious Xiao Bi. I’m making her some homemade treats these few days, and I hope that will assist me in my journey to ‘conquer’ her! >.<