- Hello everybody, welcome back
to another episode of Paddington's Pantry
where my dog Paddington and I make dog-friendly treats.
This is Paddington right here.
So today in honor of St. Patrick's Day
we are making some green smoothies for dogs.
It is filled with lots of healthy fruits and vegetables
for your dogs and also going to be going
into which vegetables to not include
because dogs can't have every vegetable like we can.
Anyways, yeah, let's get started.
Okay so before we get started
the vegetables and fruits that I chose
in this video are just ones that are green
and I know my dogs like so you want to make sure
before you make this for your dog that your specific dog
can have all of the ingredients that we're using.
Definitely double-check with your vet.
Some common smoothie ingredients that you do not want
to include are kale, avocado, and spinach.
Spinach if when eaten in large quantities
can cause kidney failure which is terrifying.
Avocado is always a big no for dogs.
And you also want to avoid kale
because it has something called calcium, oh god.
Calcium oxidate, oxalate.
Everything will be in the description box below anyways.
But in large quantities it can create
or can cause kidney stones so you don't want
to give that to your puppy.
But let's get into the actual recipe
and all these ingredients are puppy safe.
So everything gets poured into a blender, it's super easy.
I use one cup of water, two fresh pears
that I peeled and roughly chopped.
So with pears you want to peel the peel
just because the little pieces of peel
can kind of get stuck in your dog's throat
and you want to avoid that so just use the flesh
and also completely avoid the seeds and the internal stem.
Then I added two stalks of celery.
So celery's really handy
because it freshens your dog's breath.
So if your dog has some stinky breath
this smoothie is actually quite good
to freshen their little mouth.
Then a teaspoon of freshly-grated ginger.
(grating sound)
Then one fresh cucumber and I haven't peeled this
simply because I wanted the green color in the peel
but I give my dogs sliced cucumber all the time
and they can eat the skin so they have no issue
with it but if your dog does you're totally welcome
to just peel the cucumber as well.
Then one cup of some thawed frozen peas.
(soft, happy music)
And a quarter cup of fresh mango
that I peeled and roughly chopped.
Paddington loves mango so I had to include it.
So you just want to pulse everything until it's very smooth.
And so this is a quite chunky smoothie recipe.
So you can leave it chunky if you like
but if your dog doesn't like that texture
you can push it through a sieve or a cheesecloth
and what that's going to do is it's
going to remove any of the pulp
and actually it's gonna give you
a fine liquid so it's easier for your dog to drink.
Then just pour it into little glasses and you are done.
And also if you don't want to serve
it to them liquid you can also pour it into
like a little silicon mold and freeze it for frozen treats.
That's what I did with the rest of the smoothie mixture
because I have two Pomeranians,
their stomachs are like this big.
So the smoothie, I mean we made way to much.
So now they have treats for months and months and months.
And I figured, you know my channel,
this other little puppy is named Treacle.
She is my other Pomeranian
and both Paddington and Treacle are on Instagram
@paddington_pom and @treacle_pom.
So if you guys want to give them a follow
that would be wonderful.
So thank you so much for watching.
I hope that you liked this recipe.
If you have any requests for other dog treats,
like different kinds, what would you like to see?
Let me know in the comments down below.
I will also link a playlist here
for all the other dog recipes I have on my channel.
A dog cookbook is going to be in the works in the future
so stay tuned for that.
I'm currently working on my second book
which is not a dog cookbook but hopefully
the third will be one.
I know there will be so many photos of Paddington
so I cannot wait for that.
Are you excited 'cause you'll get so many cookies?
(laughter)
That's the magic word.
Anyway, yeah, thank you so much for watching.
I will see you on Sunday for a new weekly vlog.
But yeah, I love you guys so much
and bye-bye, can you say goodbye?
Can you wave?
We can't even see your hand 'cause it's a fluff ball.
Wave, waving, look at the camera, look.
Over there.
Look up.
Paddington.