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If you want a dog who's super motivated,
and focused in working for food, just like these guys,
this is the go-to recipe.
I'm Ken Steepe, and welcome back to McCann Dogs.
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So let's talk about the ingredients
in this dog treat recipe.
It's really simple, just a few ingredients, and they are,
one cup of flour, one can of tuna,
one egg, and a quarter cup of cheese.
And we're gonna talk about the cheese in a minute,
because there's something you can do with the cheese
that'll make it even more enticing for your dog.
But let's get started.
First up let's add our one cup of flower to the mix.
And then we're gonna add our one can of tuna.
Now, truth be told, I hate tuna.
I hate the way tuna smells, I hate the consistency of tuna.
However the dogs love it.
We all know how keen their sense of smell is,
and I think that's part of the allure of these treats,
is the stinky smelling tuna
is something that the dogs really really like,
and something they really enjoy.
But we're just gonna breakup that tuna,
and we're actually gonna add the water as well.
And in goes our egg.
Let's see if we can do this
without leaving any of the shell inside the mix.
No, I actually did a pretty good job I think.
And finally, in goes our quarter cup of cheese.
Now, we were just talking a moment ago
about how keen a dogs sense of smell is,
so choose something like a medium,
or this is actually old cheese,
so it's much smellier, a little bit stronger.
And your dogs gonna like it a little bit more.
They're at least gonna be a little bit more
interested in the treat.
Especially if you've got a picky dog,
the smellier the stuff, the smellier the ingredients,
the more likely you are
to have a dog who loves these treats.
Now some of my cheese grating was a little bit messy,
so I'm gonna have to clean up what's left,
I didn't get all of it in the bowl.
But next up were gonna mix this all together.
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Our treats are now pretty thoroughly mixed
and this is the point where we're gonna
put the treats into a pan to go into the oven.
Now, if you had an eight by eight pan,
this ones a little bit bigger than that,
but if you had an eight by eight pan
this recipes gonna fit exactly into that size.
But generally if I go about half the width of this pan,
it's usually pretty close to being the right amount.
But I'll show you really quickly, what we're gonna do is
we're gonna take our ingredients out, take our mixture out.
We're just gonna place it into the pan,
and we're gonna platen it out a little bit.
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I think that's pretty good.
Now, I don't know whether you guys can see this at home
but it's...
I've spread out the recipe
until it's about a quarter inch thick,
maybe just a little bit thicker.
And now we're actually gonna put it in the oven.
Now we're actually gonna bake this twice,
but the first time we bake this
we're gonna put it in at 350,
but it's only gonna go in for about 20 minutes.
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Okay, so our treats have spent 20 minutes in the oven,
and I've just taken then out
and the whole house smells like tuna.
But what we need to do now is
actually we're gonna separate the treats from the pan,
and we're just gonna turn the treats over.
We're gonna turn the beginning of theses tuna treats
over onto a baking sheet.
And we're actually going to cut them up
into the appropriate sizes of treat.
The last thing you wanna do is have great big treats
that you're treating your toy poodle with, for example,
if we were using hippy shake, or your small breed dogs.
You don't wanna have great big treats.
Maybe half the size of your thumbnail
is sort of a good rule of thumb.
We actually have a video about using treats
and moving away from using food in your training.
And I'll post a card to it above me here somewhere,
so that you guys can have an idea
of you aren't gonna be dependent
on using food in your training,
or using food to train a trick,
but it's a really great way to start.
So let's get into cutting these treats.
Now it's really helpful
to have something like a pizza cutter.
You definitely don't need to use one,
but it's going to make cutting your treats
just a little bit easier and a little bit more precise.
So, have a look at the size
that I'm gonna be making these treats.
We're gonna put our treats back into the tray,
and we're gonna put these treats back into the oven.
And this time we're gonna put the treats in at 275
for 40-60 minutes.
And you're gonna wanna check in on them
after the 40 minute mark.
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Now about 50 minutes minutes have elapsed
since we put our treats back into the oven.
And I've been checking on them frequently
since about the 40 minute mark.
And they look to me like they're just about ready to go.
Yeah, they look pretty good,
they look like they're ready to go.
Now what we're going to do is pour these out,
and we're gonna break them up
so that they're just little tiny treats.
The really great thing about these treats is that
once we've cooled them to room temperature,
we can start using them right away.
But they'll last, if we keep them refrigerated,
they'll last approximately a week,
and we can use them any time.
Something that I like to do is
separate them into training portions.
So I might put a handful, let's say,
of treats into a Ziploc bag, and then I put it in the oven,
or put it in the refrigerator,
and each time I wanna train my dog
I can take that little section
or that little pouch of treats out,
and I've got a perfect amount
if I'm waiting for my coffee to be ready.
Or in the afternoon if I've got a couple of minutes
and I wanna work on something with my dog,
I can use that portion of treats.
The other thing is, if I wanna train to trick,
I can take a couple of those little bags out,
and teach my dog to do something really cool
like how to teach a dog to do the best buds trick,
like, I'll post a link above,
but teach them how to do that best buds trick.
And these really really high value treats
are a great way to make sure
that you're successful with that.
So I hope you have fun making these treats.
And I know our little border collie Beeline
really really likes them.
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and you can use your brand new treats recipe
to teach your dog a really cool trick.
On that note, I'm Ken, happy training.
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