Pumpkin Peanut Butter Dog Treats By Anita at Dessert First

October 30, 2015 By Captain Maiel

Just in time for the Holidays! Culinary K brings you a festive and fun, tasty pumpkin peanut butter dog treats made with human grade ingredients that can be made in the safety of your home. That’s the best quality control ever!

This recipe is now a staple in my house. I keep pureed pumpkin on hand to make these awesome cookies for Miss Shagbottom. I’ve also figured out that you can replace 1/2 the pumpkin with apple to mix it up a bit. Thanks to Anita Chu of Dessert First!

The cool thing about these treats is that you can make them for special holidays so that your pooch doesn’t feel left out of the holiday fun. We often make cutter cookies with fancy decorations that are just not very healthy for dogs, because they have too much sugar, might trigger a gluten allergy*, or contain forbidden foods like chocolate, macadamia nuts, walnuts, hazelnut, yeast or raisins.

Always check the ingredients of any food you might want to share with your pet. Onion is a common flavoring spice used in a lot of savory human foods. Dogs can’t have that and aren’t supposed to have garlic either because they come from the same family. Toxicity from everyday foods isn’t the only fear faced by pet parents trying to do their dogs a favor. In more recent years, poisoning by sub-par ingredients and ingredients laced with deadly bacteria have become more frequent. With a little time and effort, you can save Fido that trip to the vet and make your own at home, where you know what is going into them, and the human grade ingredients are better regulated for safety.

*This recipe does use whole wheat flour, so gluten allergic dogs will need a viable sub.

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About Captain Maiel

Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, K has enjoyed more than twenty years professionally writing. K attended Morrisville State College, majoring in Biology, and then continued with English and History at the University at Albany, where she gained her Bachelor’s Degree. While attending UA, K interned with the 13th Moon Feminist Literary Magazine, bridging her interests in social movements and art. Topics of K's writing often include gender and racial disparities, and trauma. In 2014, K graduated from Empire State College (SUNY) with a Masters in Liberal Studies: screenwriting (Film Studies), the politics of film, and adaptations. During her gradute work, K was the recipient of the Foner Fellowship in Arts and Social Justice, a full scholarship.
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Published novels by K include the Civil War drama Blue Honor, the Second World War spy thriller OP-DEC:Operation Deceit, and the controversial dark fantasy, paranormal series The Trailokya Trilogy. In addition to writing novels, K does screenwriting: 8 Days in Ireland and the adaptations of her current novels. A sequel to her second novel, OP-DEC, is in the research phase, while the screen adaptation is being considered for production by film companies.
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In 2015, K. Williams became an official member of International Thriller Writers, but her greatest accomplishment thus far was becoming a mother in 2017. K continues to produce commentary and art pieces on The Blue Honor Blog, publishing twice weekly. A devoted dog mom, K created Shagbottom Theater in which her dogs star as well known literary and stage personas. K is also a visual artist, producing the ZoDuck Cartoon, painting and sketching--digitally or traditionally, as well as an accomplished Photographer. Click here to see more! Whether it's cooking, IVF and Parenting, learning a foreign language, history or dogs, you'll find something to enjoy and for which to come back.
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Excerpts of K's unedited, rough drafts and other scraps of writing can be found at: KWilliamsAuthor on deviantArt.com. You can also sample her books on Wattpad.

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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, From Shagbottom Theater says:

December 25, 2015 at 12:01 pm

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