I couldn’t resist including this recipe via Beth Goldberg, owner of Latka's Delicious Doggie Treats. A link to the canine delicacy appeared in the iVillage “Pets Gazette” under the heading “bake your dog a ghoulish goodie.”

Peanut Butter Dog Treat

1¼ C milk

1¼ C peanut butter

2 C whole-wheat flour

1 C all purpose flour

1¼ TBS baking powder

 

Preheat oven to 400° F. Mix milk and peanut butter in a large bowl, until smooth. Combine flours and baking powder in a large bowl. Gradually stir flour mixture into wet ingredients. Knead dough by hand, adding small amounts of milk to the mixture if the consistency is too dry. Roll out dough onto a lightly floured surface to desired thickness and cut out treats with cookie cutter of choice. Bake on cookie sheet at 400 degrees for 15 minutes, modifying timing to adjust for dough thickness and treat size. After the oven has been turned off, treats can be left to cool and dry for several hours before storing.

Both Foofer and Rainee love peanut butter. I appreciate that the recipe has no sugar, although the treat is still not something I would give them handfuls at a time. Maybe to keep them occupied Halloween night? As it is, even the mailman coming up the front porch drives both hounds into a tizzy. Rainee has learned from Foofer, and she follows him to the living room window, snarling and barking as the mailman carries on.

 

I’ve already accepted that Halloween night will be hell with the two of them, and probably even more so for my husband. He has to work that night, and he normally sleeps between five and nine o’clock at night. Since the only closable, secure doors inside my house are in the bathroom and the computer room, I guess I’ll be shoving a peanut butter treat into the mouths of my pooches every time there is a knock at the front door.

 

Right – like it will work….they will probably bark and spit with the food still in their mouths.