Every dog deserves a birthday cake. The problem is the bakery aisle: a shop “dog cake” is usually a regular cake with the chocolate swapped out — still full of sugar and ingredients your dog’s stomach never signed up for. A slice of human birthday cake is worse: chocolate, xylitol in “sugar-free” frosting, raisins, and…
There is a special kind of worry that comes with a dog who has a delicate stomach. Every new treat is a gamble: will this be the one that sets off the gurgling, the grass-eating, the middle-of-the-night “I need to go out” whine? Our first Shih Tzu had a stomach like a weather vane —…
You know the routine. You set the bowl down, your Shih Tzu trots over, gives it one long sniff… and walks away like you offered a bowl of cardboard. Meanwhile the same dog can hear a cheese wrapper from two rooms away. If that sounds familiar, this homemade dog food for picky eaters is the…
Summer is rough when you are wearing a fur coat you cannot take off. On the hottest afternoons, our Shih Tzus skip their usual bounce around the house and go straight for the coolest tile in the kitchen, flat as little pancakes. That is exactly when these frozen dog treats come out of our freezer….
If you have ever stood in the pet store aisle squinting at a treat label full of words you cannot pronounce, you are not alone. We started making our own 3 ingredient dog treats for one simple reason: our Shih Tzus are picky, store-bought biscuits were getting expensive, and we wanted to know exactly what…
