Making bone broth for dogs

As promised before in our previous blog post, we documented making bone broth from the beginning.

We started off with raw bones (beef bones are on the left and pork neck bones are on the right).  Pork neck bones are relatively inexpensive so we definitely recommend them.

 We then add them to the slow cooker and cover them with just enough water to cover them by an inch or two.  We added Italian Seasoning and turmeric which is where the yellow tint comes from.

Then we set the slow cooker and forget about it for at least 24 hours.  The bones will break down and the pork neck bones mostly just dissolve away.  When you take the bones out they crumble with any sort of pressure (it doesn't take much).   We remove the bones and let the mixture sit in the fridge and remove it when the fat forms a hard layer on top of the liquid (which turns into a jelly like form when chilled).

After being chilled the mixture becomes a jelly from all of the cartilage that dissolved

Once it is chilled and the fat is removed we mix up the jelly mixture and place it in ice cube trays to freeze it.  The mixture is only good in the fridge for 4 days and we can't use that much in 4 days so we freeze it and just defrost when we feed the dogs.  The little dog gets 2-3 cubes a meal (he eats twice a day).

This may not be for everyone and we get that but we think it benefits our cancer patient and helps him battle his lymphoma.   Feel free to follow us on Instagram.

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Bone Broth for dogs

So we've mentioned a few times about bone broth in a few of our posts and we finally remembered to take some photos of it.  See our latest cancer post here.  We did forget to take photos before we cooked it but I guess tiny humans can do that to you.

We got our bone broth inspiration from here, and a few of our canine loving friends.  We use raw bones to make ours, we could use cooked but for us raw is easy for us to find at a good price point.  Pork neck bones are awesome to use!  We have also used turkey wings.  That is what we used this time.  Any joint bones are good (the cartilage is what you are looking for).

We just throw ours in a slow cooker and let it cook for at least 24 hours.  The link above is a great site to get inspiration from.  We took ours out of the slow cooker and chilled it overnight then removed the layer of fat which really wasn't that much.

This is what it looked like after we removed the layer of fat, it is a gelatin like consistency when cold.

Then we put it in ice cube trays until frozen and drop them in a freezer bag until we need to use them.  You can also store it in the fridge for 4 days.

Bone broth is pretty easy to make and it helps with so many things.  Definitely something good for our little cancer patient.

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Review of Purina Beyond Treats

We received these treats via Smiley360 in exchange for an honest review.  The treats are grain free and the bags tell you where the treats were made.  Only 1 blogger was willing enough to actually pose with the treats for photos the other just wanted to be fed, what can you really do, they are dogs and stubborn at times.

Here is what each treat looks like from left to right you have chicken and carrot jerky strips, chicken cutlets, salmon and oats biscuits, chicken and apple jerky strips, and chicken and barley biscuits.

I'm going to be honest, my dogs aren't exactly picky so they would eat them no matter what.  The Salmon biscuits you can tell where made with Salmon when you open the package because they smell like salmon when you open the bag, that was the only bag that had an odor too it, it wasn't terrible but you could definitely smell them.

See, waiting patiently like a champ.  He suckers you in with those cute puppy dog eyes so you feel bad for him and give him lots of treats.  He did survive lymphoma so how can you really say no?  You can't.

He enjoyed eating every single type of treat that we received, he eats fast so we didn't get many pictures and it's hard to get clear ones of him.

All in all, the Purina Beyond treats were good treats, neither dog had any reaction to them and enjoyed snacking on them.  We would purchase them again.

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Pet Insurance & Lymphoma in Dogs

We've been meaning to blog about this for a while, but blogging about a pet that has cancer is never an easy subject to write or talk about.

Just over 6 months ago, one of the dogs received a diagnosis of having canine lymphoma.  Lymphoma is apparently very prevalent in dogs and very deadly.  Thankfully we had pet insurance, more about that later.  We immediately began chemotherapy.

We had 12 weeks of chemotherapy every week, and 12 weeks of chemo therapy every other week.  I must say, the every other week was a lot easier on everyone.  During the weeks of having chemotherapy every week we had to skip treatments which meant it really took us longer than 12 weeks to complete the beginning half of chemo because his white blood cells were regenerating quickly enough and were too low to receive some doses on time.   We also had a very scary ER visit where the little guy was hospitalized for 2 days.

 

IV port during his hospitalization stay at the ER due to a severe drug reaction

I cannot be more grateful that we had invested in Pet Insurance.  We ended up going with Healthy Paws Pet Insurance when we did purchase our pet insurance and I cannot say how easy they were to work with.

They have a phone app where you take a photo of the invoice that you receive from the vet's office and Healthy Paws takes it from there.  It takes a day or two for them to process the claim and about a week after a submitted the claim I received a check in the mail.  Their prices are reasonable, they don't cover exam fees, but not many insurance companies do.  They also do not cover vaccines or other typical care, which is normal.

The biggest plus, other than the phone app, is that you have 1 yearly deductible a year that you must achieve before you start getting money back.  Not one per incident like most of the other companies I looked at (i.e. one deductible for a broken leg, one deductible for a dog bite, another deductible for an obstruction).  With Healthy Paws you get one deductible regardless of how many different problems may arise.

You may not think Pet Insurance is worth it, but accidents happen and one visit to the emergency vet and you are going to hit your deductible in one visit most likely.  By our first vet visit, which included the biopsy we had already hit our deductible for the year.  The insurance from Healthy Paws has more than paid for itself.

I seriously encourage and urge you to look into pet insurance.  Lymphoma is so prevalent in dogs, I cannot tell you how many dogs I met with Lymphoma during our vet visits.

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Holiday Shop for Pet Costumes, Toys, Treats, and more is open

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You can find a lot of really good deals on pet costumes (think Christmas photos).

                  

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