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The Ultimate Dog Treat Cookbook: Homemade Goodies for Man's Best Friend

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I love to browse through different cookbooks. I have quite a collection, and usually go to the library to find new recipes to try before I decide to purchase the entire book. I normally look for 3 things in a cookbook, besides delicious recipes that will work for my family (including my dogs). This includes:
1) Pictures of more than ¾ of the recipes (Color pictures are the best)
2) A spiral binding, or at least on that easily lays flat
3) New & innovative recipes that have ingredients I can easily find at a grocery store

For this book, I combined my love of my three dogs, with my interest in fun, interesting cookbooks. The recipes are great, and I love that the book includes a chapter for dogs with special needs (allergies to certain food products) as I have a dog that is allergic to both corn and wheat. The chapters include: Cookies by the Spoonful, Cookie-Cutter Treats, Special Goodies for Special Occasions, Good Dogs Deserve Good Treats, and Delicacies for Dogs with Special Needs. The only thing that I disliked about the book is that there are no actual photographs of the finished recipes, and was not in a binding that laid flat. Otherwise, this is a wonderful cookbook with recipes that should leave any dog and their human begging for more great recipes.

Some of dog's favorites include: Tummy Tempting Chicken Soup Cookies, Ginny's Bonanza Treats, Carrot Crunchies, Turkey Day Treats, Grain Free Goodies, and Beef and Barley Biscuits. Enjoy!

This book uses a lot of "pre-made" ingredients (dog kibble, cereal, pancake mix) in the recipes, if that is what you are looking for than this is the book for you.

This is a cute book with a nice variety of treats to make for your dog. The extra nice part is the fact that it fast tracks you to getting the treats made. It doesn't really take you down to making them completely from scratch in all cases, but rather tells you what to get at the store to make treats out of. Instead of telling you start with wheat flour and eggs and water and mix, blah, blah, blah. It tells you "2 cups of Cheerios or Kashi cereal" or "2 cups of dry dog kibble, crushed" and a lot start with varities of Bisquick or Jiffy muffin mixes. This is a nice time saver for all of us who want to make treats for our pets but don't have all day to roll out dough and do it all truly from scratch. Don't worry, there's still enough that you'll need to add that you won't feel like you're just buying dog biscuits at the store.

This has a lot of good doggy treats, but it uses a lot of canned products (campbells soup, bisquick ect) and most recipes have cornmeal in them which is a dog allergen. Other than that it has lots of tips and lots of recipes. Just not from scratch..the semi homemade of dog cookbooks

The writers of this book obviously don't know anything about dogs and what is harmful to them. For example (and probably the biggest thing) the taco recipe in here calls for Avocados... Avocados are BAD for animals (not just dogs) do a google search on it, your dog could DIE. I have a "101 things you didn't know could harm your pet) from the ASPCA, and the things that are listed in this book as things that are bad for your pet THAT ARE ALSO IN THIS BOOK are
Avocados (the book even gives a "nutritional notes" saying how good it is for them... scary)
Garlic
Onion
Salsa (yes it actually calls for salsa)
This book seems unprofessional, almost if someone who does not own a dog wrote it. Now maybe the dogs they tested it on were "ok" with it, but all the "tester" dogs were big dogs, takes more to hurt them, while I have 2 mini dachshunds, and that much avocado or onion could send them to the hospital.
Now past all the bad recipes and bad ideas, they book does have some good ones (BUT you have to know what you are doing, and whats the point of buying a book just for dog treats if you have to look up every dang ingredient)

With the tainted pet food scare we diligently searched for a solution for out pets. This book has been a godsend. We will no longer feed store bought treats! We have tried about 6 recipes from the book. Our dogs loved them all. They are relatively easy to make and the ingredients are easy to find in your local supermarket. Now you can put your mind at ease knowing your pet is getting healthy treats. Human grade ingredients not sub par leftovers. The basic bones and their variations are a wonderful alternative to store bought treats. The chicken soup cookies were a cinch to make and a huge hit with our canine friends. If you are looking for that one special cook book for your pets this is it. It even covers special occasion treats. You'll want to share this with all your pet loving friends.

I own a dog treat business as a part time keep me busy type venture. While this book has a lot of recipes and ideas, some are complicated and require a lot of time to be spent purchasing items that aren't otherwise in the average kitchen. While the book itself isn't horrible, being a regular dog treat/food maker, it isn't the most user friendly or beginner type book either.

I really enjoy trying all the recipes in this fun book. For valentines day I made heart shaped cookies for my classmate's dogs and everyone said they were a big hit! I bought the book myself and it even comes with a free kit. I can't wait to make more treats and make a variety of things for my dog and new puppy.

Some of the recipes I tried in this book called for items that were found to have onion flavoring in them. For example Campbells Chunky Chicken Soup has onion flavoring in it. Onion is very toxic to dogs, and I feel that the book is somewhat contradictory. On a positive note, the book taught me to read labels before putting it in my dog treats. My Great Danes are grateful to that as well. Wouldn't want to hurt these beautiful creatures, or any of my other canine friends.

If you are interested in making your own dog cookies, this is the book for you!! The recipes are easy, and my 5 yr. old chocolate lab is waiting for them to come out of the oven. No need to ask him twice if he wants a cookie!