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2009.09.28

Home cookin' for dogs

Hello blog readers! I missed you while I was on vacation. It was a wonderful break, but it is also good to be home. I will have lots to post this week after I sift through the mountains of e-mails, voice mails and snail mails I had waiting for me this morning.

Click here to read today's Happy Wag column, all about my adventures in cooking my own dog food. The results were mixed: The recipes were easy, the dogs loved the food, but it is expensive and time consuming and I just don't think it's a practice I can sustain. And I worried a lot about proper nutrition.

But treats? Oh yeah, I can make those, the pooches go crazy for them, and they are actually less expensive than the pre-packaged stuff.

Click here for the recipe that turns the stuff in this photo into tasty frozen treats for dogs, or can be the base of a tasty smoothie for people.

Posted at 11:20 by Nona Nelson | Category: Happy Wag newspaper columns, Health and nutrition | 1 Comment

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  1. I liked the article quite a bit and I want to make the frozen treats too!

    Comment by Kim — September 29, 2009 @ 12:27 pm

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The Happy Wag blog is a resource for pet parents in the Roanoke Valley, a local community forum of news and information about pets. Newsroom manager Nona Nelson's family includes four pets: retired racing greyhounds Dexter and Coral and former stray cats Thai and India. Read more about Nona and this blog

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