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07-16-2011, 12:12 AM | #1 |
Banning Queen Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Home of the Kalamazoo Wings, MI.
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| Can I make homemade sweet potato treats? Princess likes very few treats & the ones she really likes, even though she gets very tiny portions are not the healthiest still. With her recent health issues I'd like to get her on the healthiest stuff possible, no execptions. She does like these sweet potato "fries" I actually found at Family Dollar of all places. The vet said these are a great treat for her. They're 100% sweet potato & no added ingredients. So I thought I'd try to make some of my own, in the size I want them, etc. I bought 2 yams, so...can I dry them out without a dehydrator? Any suggestions? Any ideas on other simple, healthy treats I could try? Preferably something kind of moist, not crunchy. Thanks.
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07-16-2011, 02:10 AM | #2 | |
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I buy the freeze dried fruit gerber graduates. I also give them the yogurt ones but not as often.
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07-16-2011, 04:09 AM | #3 |
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| No. Princess should be eating her canned l/d.
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07-16-2011, 04:14 AM | #4 |
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| I totally agree. Princess should not be given anything except the food the vet told you to feed her. She is just getting well from a very scary health scare and her insides need to rest to heal. As for those sweet potato fries IMO they are very hard and dangerous. One of my kiddo choked because the piece was so hard. I don't think they are a good idea at all.
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07-16-2011, 04:57 AM | #5 |
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| Maybe you could PM Ladyjane and ask her about baking the I/D into treats?
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07-16-2011, 05:39 AM | #6 |
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| I was going to suggest this as well- I know some people who bake the canned prescription diets into small "treats" for their dogs- this way they still feel like they are getting something special but you are straying from their diet. Another option is to fill a kong with the canned food and freeze it- this also helps them feel like they are getting something "different".
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07-16-2011, 07:20 AM | #7 |
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| FYI: Yams are not Sweet Potatoes. When I make Sweet Potato treats for my furbabies I always use Sweet Potatoes. Sweet Potato and Yam Differences Sweet Potato and Yam Health Information |
07-16-2011, 08:16 AM | #8 |
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| She'll be continuing the I/D for a while, I was just trying to have some alternatives for once she is completely healed. I don't want her to have what she's had before & she's so picky so I thought this might be an idea. I do have sweet potatoes, just called them yams to shorten what I was writing. But DD & I can always bake them off for dinner tonight.
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