Decided to make these for the dogs. We have been feeding them vegan food for 2 years now and they love it! It took a few months of being vegan myself before I came across a vegan dog on YouTube and couldn't believe it. I thought dogs required meat to survive. I therefore looked into it a bit, read a few peer reviewed studies and countless case studies and discovered that it was easy for a dog to survive on plants alone. This is because all the nutrients they require can be sourced from plants. There is nothing specific in meat that is required. The same can't be said for cats as they require Taurine, an essential amino acid which can only be found in meat. The difference is that dogs can produce their own (like us humans too), while cats cannot. At the time I was feeding them some dry meat based kibble dog food, so just swapping it over to a plant based alternative seemed like a great choice as now my dogs are helping the environment too! They eat V-Dog crunchy nuggets as their daily food and have continued to eat it for 2 years now. Did you know one of the longest living dogs to have ever lived was a Border Collie that lived to 27 years old!
Anyway, I made these as an alternative to their daily V-Dog food just to give them a treat :) They're made up mostly of potato, carrot and couscous. Simply cook up, mash up and add some flour, stirring to form a batter-like consistency adding water where necessary, then put in a muffin case (I use a silicon mold) and bake for 20 mins or so.
Ted is not fussy at all when it comes to food. He will literally eat anything you give him. He will even eat salad leaves. He's so desperate to be a human lol. As you can see he had no trouble scoffing this down in just a couple of bites!
Isaac is a bit more cautious. I find this photo funny because it looks like he's staring at the muffin thinking "what on earth is this?!". Nevertheless he demolished it as well after sussing out it was food lol. Isaac is a wary dog. He was a very scared puppy and it took months for him to trust anyone else other than me. It took a lot of training to help him overcome his fears, but there is still a level of wariness in him, hence the trepidation around this new food he has been given!
Ted is so greedy he asked for more. I let him have half :)
Posted as an actifit post as I walked to town and back to get the ingredients. 12K steps :D
#sbi-skip
