Bake me some treats!

This year, I’m trying a different twist on the traditional cookie exchange: I’m inviting a couple girlfriends over who are crazy about their dogs and we’re going to bake up dog treats.

My contribution will be Alexander’s Peanut Butter Dog Biscuit Treats shaped like dog bones.

Sound a little whacky? Perhaps.

But we are going to get into the holiday spirit by making gifts for others without any threats to our own waistlines. I can resist licking the beaters when I make Alexander’s  Peanut Butter Dog Biscuit Treats; I can’t so easily when I make shortbread.

Plus, I make extra for my neighbors’ dogs. Nothing says “Hey, sorry we cut across your yard all the time’’ like bone-shaped dog biscuits.

Recipe for Peanut Butter Dog Biscuits: http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/Recipes/Dog-Treat-Recipes-680/Alexanders-Peanut-Butter-Dog-Biscuit-Treats-29.aspx

Happy Baking!

In doing research for Happy Dog Phoenix, I read that we tend to select dogs who look like us. The idea is that we like surrounding ourselves with familiar images – and what’s more familiar than the image in the mirror?

It’s the same reason many married couples tend to look like each other, even before they start growing old together.

Ditto for dogs and there is some research to back this up. In 2004, University of
California San Diego researchers photographed 45 dogs and their owners.
“Judges’’ were shown one owner, that owner’s dog, and one other dog, with the
task of picking out the true match.

Judges were correct between 50 and 60 per cent of the time, when statistically they should have been right 33 per cent.

So, when you look at your dog, do you see yourself?