PEANUT BUTTER

richardc · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: PEANUT BUTTER

HOW MUCH PEANUT BUTTER CAN A DOG HANDLE?MY SHADOW WOULD NEVER STOP IF I DONT TAKE IT AWAY.I GIVE HER THE EMPTY CONTAINER AND SHE STICKS HER WHOLE HEAD IN TO GET IT ALL.HAVE TO SEPERATE MINE FROM HERS BY LABELLING THEM BUT SHE GETS MINE TOO ANYWAY.

kcolsey · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject: gotta love peanut butter

I don't know the answer to your question, but Gracie loves p.b. too and I'm sure she'd eat as much as I'd give her. I only give her peanut butter in her kong though and she probably only gets a little more than a tablespoon at a time, once or twice a day.

Allyson · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject:

I know this is going to sound sort of gross, but I mix a jar of peanut butter, a can of pumpkin, a tub of oats and 2 peeled and diced apples together and store it in the fridge. I then fill her Kong with that and dry kibble every night just before the kids go to bed (human kids that is). It is part of our "wind-down" routine. It lasts about 2 weeks in the fridge.

Hannah LOVES the peanut butter too, but I read somewhere once that if they got a good sized glob of it they could get it stuck in their throat somehow and gag, so I have always been in the habit of mixing it up with other things to avoid that. Yeah, I admit it...I am an overly paranoid person Rolling Eyes

hoochmamas · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:52 am Post subject:

Allyson · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:48 am Post subject:

OK, maybe it just looks gross! Wink

She loves it though. Tell her to go find her Kong and she does just that, then sits there patiently while you fill the thing. Well, sort of patiently...she will do tiny little whines to let you know she is still there if you take to long!

shouseholder · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:54 am Post subject:

I thought that mix sounds great too. I may go and give that a try for Mischa.

Underdonk · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:30 am Post subject:

One thing to note - I recently tried a couple of different brands of the "all natural" peanut butter. The ingredients of these brands are usually just peanuts and salt and does not contain the sugar that most "normal" peanut butter does. The all natural peanut butter tends to be a lot more creamy than the normal peanut butter, and it usually accomplishes this by being very very very oily. Some brands are worse than others. I fed a bunch of the really soupy stuff to my guy one day and he had the oily runs for days trying to rid of all of that stuff. Poor fella.

Just a heads up. Pick up the stuff that's less oily. Avoid the runny poop.

samckinner · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:42 am Post subject:

Allyson · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject:

28 oz jar of peanut butter, 18 oz can of old fashioned oats and a 15 oz can of pumpkin.

I usually dump the peanut butter and pumpkin in the stand mixer and let them start gooping together while I dice up the apples. Then I start mixing the oats in. Two diced apples go in last then mixing by hand because she likes getting the apple chunks out of there and I didn't want them to get all mashed up.

I refill the used peanut butter jars up and we usually get 3 jars full of stuff. It has to be stored in the fridge.

She loves it. I am not a huge peanut butter fan, so maybe the smell of it just turns me off some. It ends up looking like an orange oatmeal cookie mix with apples instead of raisins.

Haven't noticed any change in her poops since giving her a Kong of this and kibble mixed, so I assume it is working with her system. She doesn't appear to be any gassier either. (Wish I could say the same for my kids)

Hope your guys like it as much as Hannah does.

OH! I was thinking the other day when reading the pill thread...this stuff is thick enough to hide a pill in as well. I just don't have to do it because Hannah will eat anything you hand her. Well, anything WE hand her. She won't take anything from anyone else, vet included. She is either a very strange dog or a very smart one...I think it depends on the day! Wink

Pharaoh07 · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject:

iris · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:22 pm Post subject:

We use 1tbsp a day of Whole Food organic PB that contains "no salt"

versatilek9s · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

weimdawgs · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject:

My guys love PB..if I bring the jar out, they must have some.

Allyson · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject:

Try looking for the pumpkin where you find the canned fruit for pies. Apples, cherries, blueberries and such. Just be sure you buy the canned pumpkin and not the canned pumpkin pie filling. There IS a difference.

Still say the stuff looks gross and smells worse, but she loves it so much I suffer for her. Spoiled puppy!

samckinner · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject:

Haus loves it. Thanks so much.

Shirley and Haus Very Happy