The holidays are also a good opportunity to show affection to our pet and pamper it with something special, for example with a tasty treat.
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There are many Christmas offers in specialized stores, but the biscuits for dogs, cats and birdss can also be made at home without much effort and without having pastry talent.
“Dogs love strong-smelling ingredients, such as liverwurst, cheese or fish”points Nina Rottig, of the Dog-Bakery store, in the city of Wurzburg, in southern Germany.
The dog biscuit should also contain some oil, flour, and eggs. Buckwheat flour can be used for dogs with gluten intolerance.
Dog biscuits with liver sausage and coconut flakes
Rottig proposes, as a possible combination, to make a dough with the following ingredients: 75 grams of cottage cheese, 75 grams of oat flour and 75 grams of buckwheat flour, 55 grams of liver sausage (Leberwurst) and two tablespoons of olive oil. rape.
The expert warns, however, not to incorporate cocoa, chocolate, sugar, alcohol or sweeteners into the mix, since they are toxic ingredients for dogs. Nor do you have to decorate the cookies with other pastry decorations or food coloring.
The dough has the right consistency when it can be well kneaded and rolled out with a rolling pin to a thickness of about 5mm. As a decoration, the cookies can be brushed with egg white and sprinkled with coconut flakes. They are then baked for about ten minutes at 180 degrees and dried at temperatures between 60 and 80 degrees for two to three hours with the oven door slightly open.
Biscuits for cats with ground meat and brewer’s yeast
Christmas cookies for cats should be made without sugar and, preferably without grains, since “in excess they can be dangerous to health,” advises the German company Foodforplanet, which produces sustainable pet food.
Cats like ground meat. One idea is to mix two eggs with the shell included, half a kilo of meat and three tablespoons of brewer’s yeast.
If you have a cat with a sweet tooth, 80 grams of cheese and 80 grams of curd with three eggs can be mixed for another recipe.
The dough is baked in a silicone mold or cookies are cut out, there are molds with Christmas motifs or bone-shaped for dogs or fish for cats.
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Many birds also like sweets. If you want to prepare something delicious for Christmas, you can use all kinds of sweet fruits.
“The banana, for example, is very good”says the German bird expert Diana Eberhardt. In no case should they be given avocado, and citrus fruits are not advisable either.
You can mix 150 grams of fresh oat flakes, 100 grams of crushed banana, 50 grams of grated coconut, 50 milliliters of coconut milk and 30 grams respectively of ground almonds and peeled sunflower seeds. The dough is spread out on a plate, cut into squares and baked for 25 minutes at 195 degrees (or 175 degrees in a recirculating air oven).
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Eberhardt advises against overindulging in high-calorie cookies. The amount depends on the type of bird: gray parrots, for example, need a lot of calories, and Amazon parrots less. For their part, parakeets, which only weigh a few grams, get bloated quickly.
The way in which they are maintained is also important: in an outdoor aviary, the birds consume more energy than in an indoor one.
As the specialist warns, despite all the love that one puts into making cookies, it can happen that some birds love them and that others simply do not value them. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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