Hey there, it's Duke. Welcome to the kitchen. It's not too often you see me in here.
I wanted to share with you, uh, something that I do as a little evening snack, um,
for my dogs or for board and trains. There's a toy that I use it's made by StarMark. They have a
lot of different toys. Um, but for some of the big chewers or the big dogs that we have come in, um,
there's this is called the Everlasting Treat Wheeler. All right. And basically it's a dog toy.
It comes with inserts that you can buy and you can put in them and the dogs pop them out and chew
them up really well. Um, but there's something I will do with their food. Uh, I do all kinds
of raw feeding and I'm always switching things, changing things around. So I just wanted to share
with you one of the things that I do to give them a very nutritious end of the day, kind of snack,
alright, the treat keeps them busy in their kennels when they're done.
So what I do is I will take beef or chicken or whatever the, protein could be beaver,
duck, you name it. This is just strictly beef patties right here. We got a couple
of them now. So they're, I mean, it is a meal also. Um, but when you're feeding raw
and you do a lot of training throughout today, this is one thing that you can do to
finalize the day or whatever. When it's the end of the end of the day, you're gonna go in the
crate. So I have the beef here and then what I do, I believe it or not, I'll take just a small,
just a little tiny bit of veg, right This is brussel sprout, and I'll smush that all in there.
And I will also add, because when I travel, I do blend raw and I do blend, what I use is Hurraw.
So this is if there's, it's a freeze-dried dog food, all right, this one's the fish type. So
I'll put a little bit of Hurraw in there as well. So I mix it up in there. So it's not too drastic,
just meat only. Uh, one of the things I love, one of the I've been feeding supplementations,
uh, for years from XDOG®. This one's True Best in Show multivitamin. I add, uh, two of those
for the bigger dogs. I'm just gonna chunk this up because it's gonna go into two of the treat
wheelers. I have two of them here that I stuff and I freeze and this just gives them something to
gnaw at. So I'll break this all up the vitamins and then what I'll do.
And this will actually give me a lot more than, uh, than I'll be able to stuff in there. And I
can feed , this is actually one of my board and trains some his meals or the rest of his meal,
and I'll be freezing some of it and I'll be giving him some of it. So now what I'll do, uh,
I like to have very healthy dogs, very fit dogs. I also use the supplementation since we're running
and exercising a lot. Uh, I'll add extra calories. There's a product, Satin Ball. I'll leave a link
in the description below, somewhere for all this stuff. Um, I'll put a scoop there.
And then there's Formula Mass. So basically there's
protein and fats. I put in here a little bit of muscle builder.
All right. So we'll jack it all up. And then, uh, depending on the dog, sometimes what I'll put is,
uh, Flex K9. So it's, uh, joints, it's good for their joints and all that. Just a little
bit of that. Okay. Make a big mess. That's my, my favorite thing to do in the kitchen - mess.
So then basically when I have all this: a little bit of veg, uh, you can put anything healthy you
want in there. Really. This is just one thing that I have here, and then it's the beef.
So I'm gonna mix it all up. You can use rubber gloves if you want to, or a spoon or a spatula.
So when I'm done, okay, now I'll train throughout the day. This is, this is mushy. And it's hard to,
you know, you don't wanna be reaching in your pouch. There are other ways that I will, uh, train
with this stuff throughout the day. What I'll do is I'll, I'll thaw it out and I'll roll it into
little chunks. Okay. And you can do that. And you only have a small window of feeding. Um, but for
this video, it's just basically, I'm gonna take now the supplementation and all this real healthy
blob of yuminess -goodness, and I'm gonna fill and stuff, the Wheeler, okay. I'll jam it in there.
And the good thing is, I'm not sure if you can see,
come around in here inside, and this is pretty hardcore chewer but I don't think
it's indestructible. See, inside there's rings. You can actually put a treat on one side there's
inserts. You can buy, right. What I'm doing here is way healthier, a little bit more work.
So I'll jam it all in there and then I'll freeze it for both of them. So basically
I get everything stuffed in there and I'll put that in a deep freeze and it'll be solid. And
then at the end of the day, it's not a lot of meat, but it is still part of their meal.
And after they're all satisfied and they're ready to go down, they can chew on this and
I freeze it. So it's completely frozen. Um, some dogs, it takes like 20, 30 minutes.
Some dogs, it takes like two minutes. So I don't know on the dog. Depends on how big they are. So
I'm just gonna stuff this other one. All right. We love playing with our food. Now those are two big
treat wheelers of yuminess for later on, this evening.
And then what we'll do is we'll bring Roland over. Roland, do you wanna come and get the rest?
So you can see why I'm feeding, uh, freezing the, the Treat Wheelers, the black
tires. They're tough, uh, for dogs that like to chew, um, he's not really a hardcore chewer, right.
But we'll let him lick the bowl when he's done here. Right. They usually work for everything.
But what I'll do is I'll put it in the freezer now and, uh, give it to them
later. And that's one simple thing out of many things I do just to give the dog
something to chew on at the end of the day, when they're going down for bed.
Okay. So now frozen solid, a bunch of chewy yuminess
for the dogs. So if you do feed raw, that can be also something they can look forward to
at the end of your session, as a jackpot or something. When you put them in the kennel
to keep them occupied, some dogs, it takes two minutes and some dogs, it takes half an hour
with my experience and, uh, dogs that don't really like to get into the
tire. I call it the tire chew. They tend to like it in time. They tend to go to toys more than they
normally would. So that's a good thing as well. I just thought you might like that tip. As always,
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