- Hi there, I'm Ken.
I'm one of the associate instructors here
at McCann Professional Dog Trainers.
And I'm here today with Hippy Hippy Shake,
and we wanted to tell you guys about this great recipe
for dog ice cream.
It's really straight forward, it's all natural ingredients.
All you're gonna need is two cups of pureed pumpkin,
two cups of nonfat, unsweetened Greek yogurt.
And it's really important that you get the
unsweetened kind because some sweeteners
can be toxic to dogs.
You're gonna need one ripe banana, and
two tablespoons of all natural, no salt added,
no sugar added peanut butter.
So let's get started,
and I'll show you how to make this stuff.
Okay first things first, we're gonna add our pumpkin puree
to our mixing bowl.
And now you can try using a blender for this,
but I haven't had great success with it because it's such
a thick mixture that you really have a tough time.
And I found it just a lot easier to mix in a bowl.
So in goes our pumpkin puree.
Next goes in our nonfat, unsweetened Greek yogurt.
That's two cups there.
And next we're gonna cut up her banana
into tiny little pieces.
And for some of you guys you can use this for all kinds
of treats for your dog,
or maybe you can put it inside a Kong.
And specifically for putting it inside your dog's toy,
you're gonna want it to be a little thicker.
So it's really helpful if you start by freezing the banana
and then cutting it up.
You're just gonna find that it just makes the mixture
when you're done a little bit thicker,
and it tends to stay in the Kong as it's setting up
for the first little bit in the freezer.
So next we're gonna cut up her banana, and cut it up
nice and fine because it's gonna be tough to mix
if the chunks are too big especially if you're going to
maybe put it in an ice cube tray which might be
a good way to serve it to your dog.
You know break out a couple of ice cubes
every once in a while as a treat on a really warm
summer day or something like that.
Okay so we've got her banana all cut up.
Now we're gonna just simply add it to our mixing bowl,
in it goes.
And then last but not least our all natural peanut butter
with no sugar added and no salt added.
Now it's important as with any food
if you're gonna be giving your dog something new
that you check with your veterinarian just to make
sure that it's something your dog can have.
So just you know maybe check with them
and see what your dog's able to have and maybe how much.
It's a good idea especially starting something
that your dog may never had before to give them
just a little bit at the beginning
and see how they do with it.
Now we just need to mix it up,
get it all mixed up in there.
There's another great thing you can do
with this ice cream.
For the small breed dogs, is if you get maybe one of
their little chew ties, this tiny little bone is perfect
and I've got little paper cups.
What I'm gonna do is put the ice cream actually
into the paper cup and then put the chew toy down into the
center of it before I put it into the freezer to freeze.
And that way when I take it out,
I can peel off the paper cup
and then give it to Hippy and she can enjoy
some of the ice cream
and then eventually be rewarded
with one of her favorite chew toys.
So I'm gonna do that now.
Another thing you can do is put it into ice cube trays
like I said or even just leave it in the bowl.
You know you can portion it out that way,
it's really not that difficult.
If you do make it a little bit thick it can be hard
to get it all out of the bowl which is not a big deal
but all you need to do at that point, is maybe add
a little bit of water to it.
Let it warm up a touch, and then remix it again.
So we've got a full serving of our doggie ice cream
into our little paper cup.
And I'm just gonna set this down in the center.
And you see that little chew toy goes all the way
down into the center there.
And then I'm just gonna pop it in the freezer for
about three to four hours and it depends on what
consistency you're looking for, but it takes about
that long I've found for it to really set up.
You know and be the firmness that I would want it to be
when I before I give it to the dogs so that it doesn't
immediately make a mess.
Well Hippy Shake and I wanna thank you guys for watching.
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And with no further ado we're gonna let Hippy Shake
have some of that delicious doggy ice cream
that we've prepared,
and I wanna wish you guys happy training.
Bye for now.
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