Lori Hall Webboard User Reg: 06-12-2007
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This is the best thread of posts ever!!! I got so sick of cooking chicken breasts to use, so I got turkey hotdogs. They gave him loose poop and bad gas - we all suffered for that choice! But he LOVES candy corn! I never ever thought of using that for training! I definitely need to start thinking out of the box!! (gonna go stock up on 50% off candy corn tomorrow!)
And might I also add that this is the time of year to stock up on Trader Joe's canned pumpkin ... it's even organic (not to mention cheap).
And back to training treats.
Two things - first, the mention of Trader Joes makes me jealous! The closest one to me is 2 hrs away. And second, if you find generic pumpkin in a regular non-Trader Joes grocery store check to make sure it it's not from China. A place around here had a good deal on canned pumpkin but when I read the can I found it was from China so back on the shelf it went.
Tracy Collins Webboard User Reg: 10-09-2008
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Don't forget: The real pumpkins sitting on the front porch (or left over at the store and rejected now that Halloween is over) are real food. American-grown, and 100% pure pumpkin.
Bake it til it's soft and store in zip-lok bags in the freezer.
For our purposes here for dog poop issues, you don't even have to cook it. Just cut the flesh into hunks and freeze. When you thaw it again, it'll be plenty mushy.
Makes me sad that so many pumpkins go to the trash uneaten by some critter. We tend too often to think of them as styrofoam carving blocks instead of the super-food they are.
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I was actually just thinking about doing that Tracy.
Also - puree and pour into a cloth lined strainer to let drain for pumpkin pie quality of puree. My favorite is 1/2 pumpkin 1/2 buttercup squash to add some dryness to it.
Don't forget: The real pumpkins sitting on the front porch (or left over at the store and rejected now that Halloween is over) are real food. American-grown, and 100% pure pumpkin.
Bake it til it's soft and store in zip-lok bags in the freezer.
For our purposes here for dog poop issues, you don't even have to cook it. Just cut the flesh into hunks and freeze. When you thaw it again, it'll be plenty mushy.
Makes me sad that so many pumpkins go to the trash uneaten by some critter. We tend too often to think of them as styrofoam carving blocks instead of the super-food they are.
Eat your jack-o-lantern!
Sometimes the best ideas are right in front of your face. We just have to open our eyes!
For the past 40+ yrs the pumpkins have always gone in the compost pile. I didn't want to waste them and this was a good alternative.
It's freezer bags from here on!!!
Skin and scoop out will still go in the compost of course.
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