I would like to find recipes for homemade dog treats for a dog with kidney disease.
By nancy from Flintstone
Add your voice! Click below to answer. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom!
I googled & quickly found the following. Please remember to NOT use anything that has onion or garlic in it. Lkely is why they show making your own chicken broth is because dogs are NOT to have garlic or onion which is in most canned broths. www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=2+1659&aid=1030 is a site that lists foods to avoid when feeding a dog. Hope some of this helps a bit.
www.dogaware.com/treatref.html#special
Low Fat/Low Protein/Low Phosphorus Dog Cookies
If you want a snack that will be safe, here is the recipe for cookies with almost no fat or protein. Super easy to make. Depending on how large you cut them ( I use a heart shaped cutter that is approximately 1.5 " and get two cookie sheets full of them), you can get enough from one batch for 2-3 weeks. Be sure to freeze those you will not use within a week. These are perfect for pancreatitis, for renal or liver problems since there is little fat or protein in them. See recipe for how to make no-fat homemade chicken broth below*.
Note that dogs with renal (kidney) disease should be fed a low phosphorus diet. If they do not have liver or pancreas problems, fat is good, including butter. Egg whites are also good to use, as they contain almost no phosphorus. There is no need to limit phophorus for dogs with liver disease or chronic pancreatitis, so any kind of flour can be used for them, but it is important to limit fat for those dogs.
· 2-&frac; cups rice flour or white all-purpose bleached flour (these two are lowest in phosphorus, which is best for kidney disease)
· &frac; tsp. garlic powder, or fresh ground
· 6 Tbsp low sodium, low fat chicken broth*
· &frac; cup cold water
· 1 cup cooked vegetables ground up (winter squashes, zucchini, and sweet potatoes are low in phosphorus, which is best for kidney disease)
Combine flour and garlic; mix in chicken broth and vegetable(s); add enough cold water to form a ball; pat dough to &frac;" and cut into desired shapes; place on non-stick cookie sheet and bake in preheated oven at 350F for 25 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Freeze what is not eaten within a week.
*Non Fat Chicken Broth
You can use a pressure cooker and complete this in 2 hours, or a stock pot and finish in 24 hours.
Remove skin from whole chicken OR chicken pieces. ( in the pressure cooker I use 3 leg quarters from which I remove the skin before cooking ). Place the chicken in the pot with distilled water. For the pressure cooker, cook on high for 2 hours and in the stock pot, simmer on low heat for 16-24 hours.
Remove the chicken and bone from the broth and discard ( all the nutrients are in the stock)
Pour the broth into a fat separator ( looks like a pitcher with the spout coming from the bottom ) After 10 minutes the fat will float to the top. Pour off the small amount of fat at the top and pour the low fat broth to a container. Be sure to watch what you are doing because near the bottom you will come to more fat and will need to stop pouring into the pot and discard that part, too.
Refrigerate the broth and when it is cold, any fat remaining will be gelatin on the top. You can remove part of it or you can pour the whole thing through a super fine mesh strainer, which will stop the fat and allow the plain broth through. You will find that after the broth has been used and you run your hand inside the container, it will not be greasy.
Garlic? I have read in several places that garlic should NOT be given to dogs whether fresh, powdered, etc. Could someone please provide any info regarding garlic and dogs. I'm just surprised to see garlic as an ingredient in this recipe. Thank you so much.
Some veterinarians will recommend adding garlic to a dog's diet and others consider it a poison. I would talk to your own vet for the best advice.
I am confused. You say not to use garlic but there is garlic in this recipe. Also, the amounts of some ingredients, the first few, are replaced by characters. Thank you.
Unfortunately, that recipe was copied from a different site and was using a code that is not longer supported. The site no longer has the recipe so we can't fix it now.
A lot of older dog food and treat recipes included garlic, as it is was thought to help with fleas and other pests. However, most vets no longer recommend using garlic for any dogs, although some more naturopathic vets still suggest using it.
I would leave it out of this recipe and start with about a 1/4 cup of water. The recipe says to add it until it gets to the right consistency so a little more or less shouldn't be an issue.
Good luck! Let us know how it turns out.
You can use Prescription Diet K/D canned food and cut it into slices as it comes from the can. Bake it in a slow oven (I think it's about 200-250) until dried and firm. Cool on a rack and refrigerate.
Just above the recipe for homemade chicken broth it says not to give dogs onion or garlic, but then the recipe that follows has garlic in it. Can someone clarify? I am just wondering if where it says garlic, maybe it should be some other ingredient instead.
I think the recipe is ify. Garlic is a definite no no for dogs as it damages their red blood cells. Very odd to use chicken and without skin and to de-fat the broth - fat is not bad for renal failure, phosphate and potassium are. And why distilled water and cooked for so long? And parsley is not only relatively not so low in phosphorus but also is a diuretic which makes it a not so good choice. No, this needs tweaking
Garlic is not good for dogs, according to many sites I have seen
I read somewhere that onion and garlic in their raw form is toxic to dogs. However, if cooked or processed, and in small amounts, they are not going to hurt the fur babies.
Garlic and onions are considered toxic to animals, even in their cooked form. I would be very cautious about this, especially with a smaller dog. A large dog would be able to handle the toxin better but there is still a risk.
Add your voice! Click below to answer. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom!
