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sweetfreedom wrote:Very cute new Glamour article!  

The Doggy Equivalent of a Pumpkin Spice Latte? Pumpkin Pooch Bones
By Catherine Lowe
Pumpkins may not have bones, but they do make some delicious bone-shaped dog delights. Dogs might have the most sophisticated palates (they do sniff butts, after all), but I’m pretty sure they dig these treats. Get it? Dig? ;)



Pumpkin is also a miracle food for dogs. It’s loaded with fiber so it’s good for their tummies. But let’s get one thing straight—our girls are not basic bitches. No one wants to be a basic bitch. These bones are also festive, yay! So bake them up and your house won’t need to solely rely on that scented candle to get into the fall mood. Plus, everyone knows dogs love peanut butter. And we love to watch them love peanut butter. This is really a selfish ploy to laugh at them while their tongues get a workout on their own snouts.

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour
2 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin
2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Frosting: 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce and 8 ounces low-fat cream cheese

Note: Since my girls are large—not fat—they require bigger treats. Again, NOT FAT. I used a 5-inch bone cookie cutter from Sur La Table and this recipe yielded 10 bones. Smaller cookie cutter = more bones. Math, my friends.

Directions:
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Mix together flour, eggs, pumpkin, peanut butter, salt, and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl (I did it with my hands after a little spoon action). Add a little water as you whisk to make the dough workable, but don’t make the mixture too moist. The dough should be on the dry and stiff side. Roll the dough into a 1/2-inch-thick roll on a lightly floured board. Use cookie cutters to make bone shapes.

Place bones on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes or until hard. After you take them out of the oven, let them sit for at least 30 minutes to harden further. Meanwhile, make the frosting.



Ellie and Lola have a sweet tooth (just like their daddy!), so I added frosting so they’d be doubly happy with their treats. The measurements listed above, 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce mixed with 8 ounces of low-fat cream cheese, will do the trick. I whipped up those ingredients pretty well and funneled the mixture into a squeeze bottle to make decorating a breeze. The icing will be enough for at least seven batches of treats, so you can feed all the neighborhood pooches and get some practice for when sugar-cookie-decorating season commences. Write their names with the icing, draw dirty shapes—it doesn't matter, they won’t know the difference.

After you apply the frosting, let that harden unless you want that peanut butter-esque viewing satisfaction. And I know we enjoy a binge-eating scenario in our own lives, but keep the gluttony to a minimum with your pups. Too much fiber is not a good thing for either species.



If dogs could talk, they’d say that these treats are woof-derful. But then again, they eat poop. It is what it is, people. We are half making these for our own pleasure, amirite?

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smartcat wrote:Love all the Doggie discussion but it's time for some catty talk. Well not cat yet but kitten. A little black and white 4 lb ball of long silky fur has wormed her way into my life. Just when I said no more pets ever at my age well.....
There she was under the wheels of a car abandoned and shivering and that promise to myself went out of the window.
So Sadie has come home to a pink kitten bed which she loves when shes not running over me and sleeping in my big girl bed. A bunch of good kitten toys and some old empty boxes. lots of healthy kitten food and one besotted admirer, ME.
Lucky me and lucky Sadie. Will try to get the techy Grandson to post a picture. She's soooooo cute.