Dog Treat Recipe - Lemon and Walnut Slices

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lemon-and-walnut-slicesBeing a very wet and windy weekend here in New Zealand, Zoe, Fritz and I entertained ourselves with some more indoor games, mainly Find It, and making .

I tried out a new , Lemon and Walnut Slices which were a hit with the dogs as we had to play the game many times over!

Here's the recipe; preparation and cooking time is under half an hour and you can freeze the uncooked mixture for use at a later time:

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How to Clean Your Dog's Ears

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yorkshire-terrier-with-bowAdopting a weekly routine of examining and cleaning your dog's ears is a good habit to get into because you'll be able to identify and treat signs of dog ear infection as soon as they become apparent.

I've set out below the method I use for and which has been effective in keeping Zoe and Fritz free from ear infections.

If your vet prescribes medication for an existing , you should clean your dog's ears before applying it - the medication will be much more effective if it is put in a clean ear.

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How to Give Your Dog a Pill

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Giving your sounds straightforward, but how many times have you found bits of the pill on the carpet minutes after you think he's successfully swallowed it? You are then faced with the dilemma of whether need to medicate him again as you're not sure how much he's actually ingested!

This 40 second video shows you how to - and make sure he swallows it!

A trick I use is to blow very gently on my dogs' nostrils as soon as I've put the pill in their mouths - the extra air on their noses cause them to swallow.

However, these tricks may be becoming a thing of the past - Fritz was prescribed with some antibiotics recently for a nose infection, and we couldn't work out why he happily chomped on the pills each time we gave him one. Reading the ingredients we discovered that they were liver flavored!

So, until the day all medicines are liver flavor, I hope this video helps with the tricky problem of getting your dog to swallow a pill:


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