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In today’s article, I’ll be sharing easy treats recipes and DIY Birthday cake for your furkid!

Disclaimer: I am not a professional. This article is written based on personal experience in making these treats.

If you’ve never done your own dog treats before I suggest starting with one of the dog recipes in the list below. In fact, I would recommend these recipes to everyone. Who doesn’t love simple?

These basic dog recipes are easy to produce, even to beginner cooks like me. And if your treats don’t turn out to be as pretty as the pictures below, don’t worry — your dog will just enjoy them the same way.

Here’s some simple dog treat recipes are are made from human-grade ingredients and frozen choices, to DIYs. Owners can eat it too !

1. Quick & Easy Peanut Butter Treats

Does your dog love peanut butter as much as mine does?

LOL – over heated. try n error yourself.

Ingredients – 2cups flour, 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter or powdered (dog-friendly ones), 1/4 cup water.

Preheat your oven to 350 F. Mix the ingredients together until combined, and then add water until it becomes wet enough to roll out as dough.

Two ingredient dog treats: about 10 minute cook time at about 150 – 180 degree.

2. Frozen Yogurt Apple/Banana/Blueberry/Strawberry Dog Treats

This dog treat recipe is so simple it doesn’t even involve any cooking.

Ingredients – 2apples/banana/blueburry/Strawberry, a cup of plain yogurt/kefir n some ice cubes trays or mould.

*Recommend you to get Farmers Union Greek Style Yoghurt – Natural

You’ve got yourself a yummy treat your dog will love. My dogs Snowy&Bella absolutely loves these treats.

Freeze for a couple hours.

You can also mix n match, your own innovation!

3. Yogurt Apple/Banana/Blueberry/Strawberry Dog Treats – eat on the spot !

This dog treat recipe is excetly same as frozen treat above but without freezing it.

Ingredients – sliced apples/banana/blueburry/Strawberry and a cup of plain yogurt/kefir. Additional ingredients Manuka Honey.

Pour the yogurt into the bowl, decorate with the fruits and serve it to your furkids ! Add a little of raw Manuka honey if you want to !

4. Pumpkin Cookie Dog Treats.

These pumpkin dog treats are mega simple. They’re made with whole wheat flour, though you’re certainly welcome to use all purpose. Whole wheat flour just tends to carry a bit more nutritional value. Pump up the health value of those treats!

Ingredients – 2 cups + 2 Tablespoons whole wheat flour all purpose is fine, 1/2 Tablespoon baking powder, 1/2 cup pumpkin purée, 1/4 cup water or milk, 1 large egg.

Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour and baking powder.
Set aside.
In a medium size bowl, whisk together the pumpkin, water or milk, and egg until smooth.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix gently until everything is combined. You may need to use your hands. /roll out dough onto a floured surface and use desired shape cookie cutter, reroll, and cut again until there is no more dough left.
Bake dog treats for 30 minutes, flipping treats over halfway through baking.

ingredient dog treats: 30 minute cook time. Store dog treats covered at room temperature. Treats may be frozen, up to 3 months. Thaw at room temperature.

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DIY Barkday Cake (homemade from scratch)

I’m super exciting recipe to share with you: a yummy Birthday Cake just for pups!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDtShEJj2Pk/

Ingredients List

(Cake) 300g pork – I use /beef/Tuna/etc… (steamed/baked – i baked) and 50-70g finely chopped vegetables (carrots/pumpkim/any vegetable you wanna add in)

(Frosting) 300g Mashed Potato – I use / sweet potatos (purple/orange) / Greek yogurt frosting , Liquid Food Colours – must be dog-friendly (any colour you like or you can use natural vegetable for colours)

(Decorate) Fruits – Strawberry, Banana, Blueberry, etc.. / dog cookies / dehydrated meats??

STEPS

Preheat oven to 160-180 degrees celsius.
Mix together all the (cake) ingredients into a bowl
Transfer it to a cake mould and bake for 15-25 minutes, (To check if the cake is done, place a stick in and remove. If stick comes out dry, it’s done!)
Leave (cake) to cool.
Prepare frosting: Mashed Potato together plain or if you adding the list below.
Once cakes are cool, they are ready to frost and design to your liking!

If there are left over mashed potato, you can use waffle/donut maker machine to cook it OR dehydrate it (personally I’ve never tried to dehydrate it, maybe you can let me know).

We hope you enjoy reading and baking it for your pup! Your pup will definitely like it because my pup likes it!!

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We planned a birthday party for Milky back in July to celebrate his 2nd barkday & recovery from his entropion surgeries.

Planning a party for your doggo can be TOUGH. But since I’ve done this already, I’m going to detail my checklist here to make things as easy for you as possible! Here we go ?

1. DETERMINE YOUR BUDGET

For us, we decided to co-host a birthday party with another Chow Chow owner whose dog’s birthday was the same month as Milky. Your budget will go towards:

✅ Location – any min. spending mandated by the cafe?

✅ Decoration – are you decorating the cafe?

✅ Food – are you buying food for your guests, both humans and dogs?

✅ Goodie bags – are you preparing door gifts for your guests?

✅ Cake – birthday cakes for your dog?

For us, our budget was to spend below $200. This means that we can’t choose a location that has a min. spending.

Since I am co-hosting with another owner, I did up an excel sheet to keep things clear and transparent. You can use my template here!

You can duplicate the excel sheet to your own google drive here

2. DECIDING ON A LOCATION

We don’t drive, so we wanted somewhere nearer to home (west) for easy transportation. We shortlisted Turf Club since it was along Bt Timah and had a few pet-friendly cafes there, namely WOOFTOPIA & AH B CAFE.

Eventually, we settled on Wooftopia because I’ve been there before and since we would be inviting quite a few big dogs, we wanted a larger place. I also liked that they do not have a min.spend, but reserved the tables for us.

They have 2 areas – so the large dogs (Chow Chow) were kept inside that area whereas the other smaller dogs roam at the outer area.

*This is how the outside seating looks like (source: google)*

? Tips!

Use the FAVE app for cashback. Get cashback when you pay via the app. Just a note that the cashback can only be redeemed on your next purchase, so what you can do is to order separately.

If possible, celebrate on a weekday. The last I was there, they were running a 30% discount off their mains if you go on a weekday. It was really empty so I guess these promotions might help to pull in some crowd!

3. PLANNING GOODIE BAGS

The fun part – because who doesn’t love buying stuff for our pets? ? But it can be a logistics nightmare if your guests are on different diets and/or has allergies on certain protein.

(a) Do up a google sheet and get your guests to fill it in.

(b) Plan your shopping! I was on a budget so I hopped onto Fave (no, this article is not sponsored by them haha) and bought the $30 Perromart voucher for $10 … and used another email address since it’s only for new customers (I realised they increased it to $20; it was $10 when I bought it).

I bought Absolute Holistic treats and also got some dental treats from Happy Doggi (btw, Woof Agency do sponsor treats for goodie bags. You can sign up here).

(c) I bought these Kraft Paper Bag Ziplock Resealable Bags & Brown Kraft Paper Bags from Shopee. Total cost was around $12 after using my shopee coins – I packed for 20 – 25 dogs if I am not wrong.

Zanel (the other owner) was in-charge of decoration and cake! The balloons were around $15, but the cake was pricier ($95). We got it from Onicupcakes, who is also a friend and fellow Chow Chow owner!

*You can see the decoration on the wall (just balloons for Milky & Rug’s name!)*

4. HAVE FUN & TAKE LOTS OF PICS!

It’s very fun, but also SUPER tiring. Just imagine it as a kid’s birthday party and you need to make sure everyone is playing nice (whilst not peeing & pooping) and your human guests are having fun.

I would highly recommend that you have another person to help around, and invite peeps who know each other so that they won’t be too bored alone!

*(Left to right) Nugget, Milky, Maki, Kawaii & Bun Bun*

*Some behind-the-scenes with the cake and trying to get a good photo (VERY HARD)*

Let the celebration begin!

Planning a barkday party is both fun and tiring. But what I really love is the smile, laughter and running after your pets that makes everything worth it.

Just look at the boy with all his birthday presents – how blessed is he! ❤️

*Milky with all his birthday gifts – what a lucky boy!*

A huge thanks to everyone who attended Milky’s birthday party and being part of his life. It’s not easy being a pet parent, but the community and friendship makes everything better.

Have fun planning! xoxo

*Sleeping after a long day of celebration*; till the next pawty! x

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I work to give Milky a better life.

Kopi girl at The Woof Agency and Pawjourr, where we hope to build a community for pet owners all around the world!

You can reach me at Jane@thewoofagency.com or find Milky at @milkythecloud on Instagram!