Palette's winter treats diary; January 16th,2011
In the previous entry titled "Palette's summer treats diary;June 13th,2010 ",
I wrote about how excited our dog, "Palette" becomes when she hears the
command "Go get leash" for walk. Then, she tends to walk much faster or tries to jog back home with me since she gets excited about her cool down
treats.
Palette really loves my cool down treats, and when we come back home,she literally right passes over me, dragging the leash, and position herself in the kitchen and wait in her imaginary line for the treats.
I am the first in line! YES!!
My butt is sliding down, but eyes on my mom for yummy treats!
With "Palette's summer treats dairy" series, I thought it would be interesting for you to tour around our kitchen to see what kinds of cool down treats she is getting, and share her cool down treats' recipes.
Since we go for walk daily except on rainy days or snowy days, cool down treats are actually given after each walk or each bathing time or occasionally, I give cool down treats after physical activity inside the house such as fetch ball/Frisbee all year round. So, we will have the series all year round and keep introducing new recipes of her cool down treats. Now, I will pass a pen to Palette to write her diary here.
January 16th,2011
Dear diary,
As always, I waited for my mom to get ready for walkie looking through the windows from top of the stairs, and I heard my mom says "Palette, go get a leash" as she walked up to poopy bag storage box.
I stood up with excitement and, went in the room to get the leash for walkie and brought it back to my mom who was waiting for me to come down at the bottom of the stairs.
Leash to mom..Here I come!
Today, we went for walkie a little longer distance than yesterday, near lake area. I hold the head high to feel the fresh air, and sometimes, nose down to the ground to read all the daily doggy news walking through the fallen leaves.
On the way home, I found a bird poop on the road, which I could not just pass walking by. I sniffed the bird poop on the road very carefully. I heard my mom said "Palette, lets go.", but I just could not pass walking by. There was something about it.
I thought that maybe I could claim the bird poop I found the road so that it is not going to go away, I decided to make it yellow. Now, that is mine. I should find it tomorrow again.
Walking back to home, I started thinking about what would come up next. Yes, "Cool down treats time"!! I want to go home now! I walked to home very first, and before my mom get the leash off from me, I ran upstairs, and headed to kitchen.
Then, that is when my mom took the picture of me waiting in the imaginary line for treats in the kitchen.
Ahh..I see you holding the cool down treats
My nose is getting wet..
Yesterday,I got Frozen Asian pear butternut squash yogurt treats that has hint of beef flavor to it. That was last one. From today, I will be getting Frozen Papaya Green beans yogurt treats that has hint of buffalo flavor to it.
Frozen Papaya Green beans yogurt treats..
Here is how you make them.
1. To the mixer, add rough sliced 1 Brazilian papaya (peeled and seed removed) 10 oz, steamed green beans 6.5 oz, 6.5 oz of Stoneyfield organic plain yogurt and add 1tbs of buffalo rib flavored water to the mixer and puree them.
**When you steam the green beans, add water to the sauce pan, drop one buffalo rib bone, and place vegetable steamer and place green beans and steam them. From the sauce pan that you used to steam the green beans, you will take 1 tbs of water and pour into the mixer to puree green beans,papaya, and yogurt.
** Papaya fruits has compounds called papain, which aids digestion and known to be good for joints. However, I tend to give trachea,gullet,poultry feet etc regularly for joint health for Palette. Papaya is, for her, occasional treats.
2. Pour those onto ice cube tray and freeze
** This will be about 12 blocks of treats in one ice cube tray with my mom's
** Frozen Papaya Green beans yogurt treats whole ice cube tray is roughly about 309 kcal (you can see more detail at nutritiondata.com website here ). So, each ice cube given is about 26kcal.
** Mom wanted rough kcal to be as close to real one, and she used Nutrition fact food label on the back of yogurt she used. She typed in the information provided in the nutrition label on the yogurt.
Give me,give me,give me..!!
Here I come!
Hmm...nom,nom,nom.. That is sooooo good!
Pardon my drool around muzzle,it is just that tasty!
Yesterday,I saw mom pulling papaya and green beans out from fridge and heard * zap,zap,zap..* in the kitchen.I knew she was making something
I smelled sweet papaya, and I could not wait to get the frozen papaya green beans yogurt treats.
I love tropical fruits such as mango, papaya but always when mom served me, it is already cut to pieces and I had never seen what it looks like. Mom showed me ingredients for my cool down treats before she uses it so I get to see with my own eyes, and smell them good with my good nose.
Brazilian papaya..
Sniff,sniff.. umm.. I donno what it is..
If I bite into it, I may find out what it is..
Mom wanted to take a picture with this strange thing, but there is something about this that I like..
Something about this that I like..Hmm..
I hope mom is not watching me.. nom..nom..nom..
Then mom showed me green beans..
What is that? What is that? Can I sniff better?
Got you,mom! I gonna take it away from you..**grin**
Oops! Sorry,mom..
The fresh ingredients (papaya and green beans) were so yummy, and so was cool down treats. This is the best part when I go for walkie I always wait nicely in front of the freezer door.I know where they sleep in I sometime wish I could open the freezer by myself to self serve... Tweat-ful tummy sounds so good..
Now, I would need a power nap after walkie. I am getting sleepy...
Palette really loves my cool down treats, and when we come back home,she literally right passes over me, dragging the leash, and position herself in the kitchen and wait in her imaginary line for the treats.
I am the first in line! YES!!
My butt is sliding down, but eyes on my mom for yummy treats!
With "Palette's summer treats dairy" series, I thought it would be interesting for you to tour around our kitchen to see what kinds of cool down treats she is getting, and share her cool down treats' recipes.
Since we go for walk daily except on rainy days or snowy days, cool down treats are actually given after each walk or each bathing time or occasionally, I give cool down treats after physical activity inside the house such as fetch ball/Frisbee all year round. So, we will have the series all year round and keep introducing new recipes of her cool down treats. Now, I will pass a pen to Palette to write her diary here.
January 16th,2011
Dear diary,
As always, I waited for my mom to get ready for walkie looking through the windows from top of the stairs, and I heard my mom says "Palette, go get a leash" as she walked up to poopy bag storage box.
I stood up with excitement and, went in the room to get the leash for walkie and brought it back to my mom who was waiting for me to come down at the bottom of the stairs.
Leash to mom..Here I come!
Today, we went for walkie a little longer distance than yesterday, near lake area. I hold the head high to feel the fresh air, and sometimes, nose down to the ground to read all the daily doggy news walking through the fallen leaves.
On the way home, I found a bird poop on the road, which I could not just pass walking by. I sniffed the bird poop on the road very carefully. I heard my mom said "Palette, lets go.", but I just could not pass walking by. There was something about it.
I thought that maybe I could claim the bird poop I found the road so that it is not going to go away, I decided to make it yellow. Now, that is mine. I should find it tomorrow again.
Walking back to home, I started thinking about what would come up next. Yes, "Cool down treats time"!! I want to go home now! I walked to home very first, and before my mom get the leash off from me, I ran upstairs, and headed to kitchen.
Then, that is when my mom took the picture of me waiting in the imaginary line for treats in the kitchen.
Ahh..I see you holding the cool down treats
My nose is getting wet..
Yesterday,I got Frozen Asian pear butternut squash yogurt treats that has hint of beef flavor to it. That was last one. From today, I will be getting Frozen Papaya Green beans yogurt treats that has hint of buffalo flavor to it.
Frozen Papaya Green beans yogurt treats..
Here is how you make them.
1. To the mixer, add rough sliced 1 Brazilian papaya (peeled and seed removed) 10 oz, steamed green beans 6.5 oz, 6.5 oz of Stoneyfield organic plain yogurt and add 1tbs of buffalo rib flavored water to the mixer and puree them.
**When you steam the green beans, add water to the sauce pan, drop one buffalo rib bone, and place vegetable steamer and place green beans and steam them. From the sauce pan that you used to steam the green beans, you will take 1 tbs of water and pour into the mixer to puree green beans,papaya, and yogurt.
** Papaya fruits has compounds called papain, which aids digestion and known to be good for joints. However, I tend to give trachea,gullet,poultry feet etc regularly for joint health for Palette. Papaya is, for her, occasional treats.
2. Pour those onto ice cube tray and freeze
** This will be about 12 blocks of treats in one ice cube tray with my mom's
** Frozen Papaya Green beans yogurt treats whole ice cube tray is roughly about 309 kcal (you can see more detail at nutritiondata.com website here ). So, each ice cube given is about 26kcal.
** Mom wanted rough kcal to be as close to real one, and she used Nutrition fact food label on the back of yogurt she used. She typed in the information provided in the nutrition label on the yogurt.
Give me,give me,give me..!!
Here I come!
Hmm...nom,nom,nom.. That is sooooo good!
Pardon my drool around muzzle,it is just that tasty!
Yesterday,I saw mom pulling papaya and green beans out from fridge and heard * zap,zap,zap..* in the kitchen.I knew she was making something
I smelled sweet papaya, and I could not wait to get the frozen papaya green beans yogurt treats. I love tropical fruits such as mango, papaya but always when mom served me, it is already cut to pieces and I had never seen what it looks like. Mom showed me ingredients for my cool down treats before she uses it so I get to see with my own eyes, and smell them good with my good nose.
Brazilian papaya..
Sniff,sniff.. umm.. I donno what it is..
If I bite into it, I may find out what it is..
Mom wanted to take a picture with this strange thing, but there is something about this that I like..
Something about this that I like..Hmm..
I hope mom is not watching me.. nom..nom..nom..
Then mom showed me green beans..
What is that? What is that? Can I sniff better?
Got you,mom! I gonna take it away from you..**grin**
Oops! Sorry,mom..
The fresh ingredients (papaya and green beans) were so yummy, and so was cool down treats. This is the best part when I go for walkie
I always wait nicely in front of the freezer door.I know where they sleep in I sometime wish I could open the freezer by myself to self serve... Tweat-ful tummy sounds so good..Now, I would need a power nap after walkie. I am getting sleepy...
We really enjoyed reading your post, Palette! Sounds like you had a lot of fun on your walkie. Dott loves finding bird poop, but she tends to roll in it unless someone is watching her closely.
Your frozen treats always sound so yummy! It is too cold for a frozen treat right now, but we DID share some of Grammy's vegetable soup tonight, and that was really good!
Grammy copied and saved your recipe, though, so that she can try it for us this summer(except the buffalo soup... that would have to be beef)
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It is nice to hear you have enjoyed reading the entry.Palette loves to roll on things but, she has not done that for bird poop. She rolled on catfish piece,which I was trying to feed her as diet menu.She got no interests in eating it but,rolling on it so, I pulled the cat fish out from her diet menu.
Palette gets one piece of frozen yogurt treats per day after we come back home from walkie or after playing fetch ball game etc.. basically after physical activity that makes her feeling hot.She loves them
You do not have to use Buffalo ribs to steam the vegetable. You can use any bones you have on hand;Chicken bone,Pork bone,Beef bones,Lamb bones,etc... I used Buffalo Ribs bone just because she had Buffalo Ribs for her meal.
After steaming the vegetable, if you prefer, you can save the flavored water you used to steam the vegetable, and pour the flavored water into ice cube tray, and freeze them. You can pull the frozen flavored water and heat it up, and wait till it gets to room temperature and you can pour the water over the food to make the food extra special if you like
If you use the flavored water for kibble rather than pour it over the fresh food, then, you should check the label and make sure that the kibble does not have "Citric Acid" in the ingredients.
Citric Acid is preservative to preserve the fat in the kibble, and according to the Dog Food Analysis website (To read on citric acid, scroll down the page to editor's note on the website), if you do soak the kibble that contains the "citric acid", it has possibility to increase the risk of bloat in dogs.
What is "bloat"? You can read more on "bloat" in previous entry titled "bloat" here.
As side note, after using the bone to flavor the steamed vegetable, toss it to trash and never give to your dogs. Cooked bones are hard,brittle, break sharp and very dangerous to feed to your dogs.
Once I made mistake before I know better, and I gave cooked ham bone (bone after shaving off the ham) on one Christmas day. Palette loved it, but then she went to potty zillions of times, dropped a golf ball sized, very hard, round poop. It was almost like golf ball made from cement. After hours later, it turned to diarrhea and countless times of butt wash at 2 am in the morning etc for a few days and we both did not sleep well during the time. She had quite miserable days. Since then, I learned about fresh food diet and learned about danger of giving cooked bones, and I never give cooked bones to Palette.
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