SPRING Recipes

featured chef: @the_little_dog_crew

Maybe your pooch tiptoes around the rain puddles, maybe they roll around joyously in the mud, but for dogs everywhere, springtime means new flowers to sniff, longer days to play outside, and fresh flavors to savor and snarf.




Kiss Me I’m Arf-ish

This light, bright, minty kiss of a treat bursts with breath-freshening flavors from the herb garden to sweeten up St. Patrick’s Day smooches (whether you’re Irish, Arf-ish, or something else). Sometimes, it’s easy being green.

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Ingredients & Materials
  • 3 - 4 sprigs of fresh parsley (finely chopped)
  • 2 - 3 basil leaves (finely chopped)
  • 2 - 3 mint leaves (finely chopped)
  • 4 Tbsp Plain Yogurt
  • 1 Tbsp Coconut Oil
  • 1/2 C raw dog food or meat blend
  • 3 - 4 dehydrated pears (sugar-free)
  • Silicone ice cube mold
  • Large or small Toppl®

FEATURING

Toppl®

Puzzle Toys
Directions
  1. Harvest your herb garden
  2. (or raid your fridge for leftover snips like we did.)
  3. Mix 4 tablespoon of plain yogurt with 1 tablespoon of coconut oil in a small bowl.
  4. Fill molds with yogurt-coconut mixture and put in the freezer for about 30 minutes.
  5. Fill the Toppl with raw meat blend, then add the frozen molds.
  6. Top with slices of dehydrated pears.
  7. Serve with a Guinness (for you, obvs.)

Pooch Boost!

Fresh parsley is packed with Vitamin A, Vitamin C, folic acid, and antioxidants—plus it can calm itchiness and freshen up those chompers.

Easter Bunny Basket

Would dogs eat the Easter Bunny? Of course not. Instead, we swapped in cage-free non-Easter rabbits and eggs from quails (not holiday hares) in this meaty treaty dog dream of an Easter basket.

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Ingredients & Materials
  • 2 Quail eggs* or one hard-boiled chicken egg
  • 2 small carrots
  • 1 rabbit ear
  • 1/4 C frozen rabbit patties
  • 1/4 C pumpkin puree
  • Large or small Tux®

FEATURING

Tux®
Puzzle Toys
Directions
  1. Place the eggs in Tux and fill the rest with rabbit meat
  2. Add the rabbit ears, pumpkin puree and carrots.
  3. Put in the freezer for an hour or two, and serve for Easter brunch.

Wellness Woof!

Tux is made for the toughest chewers—so when this Easter Bunny Basket is fully devoured, there’s still something safe to grind on. That’s good, because chewing can relieve boredom, neutralize anxiety, and keep jaws strong.

Roll-in-the-Grass Rumbl

Springtime’s purest doggy joy is when there’s finally a fresh bed of green grass to roll around in. Rolling around this duck and apple-packed Rumbl scratches the same itch: it’s easy, rolly, and quick, for a shot of impromptu joy.

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Ingredients & Materials
  • 1/4 C Freeze-Dried Raw Duck with Superfood Treats from West Paw
  • 4 -5 dehydrated and sugar-free apples or pears
  • Large or small Rumbl®

FEATURING

Rumbl®
Puzzle Toys
Directions
  1. Stick the treats in the Rumbl.
  2. Serve it on up!

Healthful Hint!

Duck with Superfood Treats are made from humanely raised, sustainable and cage-free duck organ meat from Maple Leaf Farms and farm-fresh fruits and veggies from the Northwestern US. Ideal for chicken-sensitive pets.

April Fuels

Dogs don’t understand jokes, but they DO understand the nuanced palette-pleasing tang of Greek yogurt dancing with fresh green mussels and accentuated with Pork with Superfood treats. They’re cultured like that. (And so’s the yogurt, yuk yuk.)

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Ingredients & Materials
  • 2-3 Fresh green mussels or freeze dried from Honest Kitchen or K9 Naturals
  • 1/3 C Plain Greek Yogurt
  • 1/4 C Freeze-dried raw Pork with Superfood Treats from West Paw
  • 3/4 C Raw meat blend for dogs
  • 1/2 C for small Toppl
  • Silicon mold or favorite cookie cutters
  • Large or small Toppl®

FEATURING

Toppl®
Puzzle Toys
Directions
  1. Blend yogurt with green mussels and place the mixture in molds.
  2. Place treats on top of the molds.
  3. Freeze molds.
  4. While you’re waiting for the molds to freeze, pack your Toppl full of raw meat blend for dogs.
  5. Place the frozen shell-fishy treat in the Toppl and serve to a delighted doggo.

Healthful Hint!

For poultry-sensitive dogs, there’s Pork with Superfood treats—crafted from humanely raised pork, rich in fiber and beta carotene, and freeze-dried to preserve all the whole-food nutrition.



A few intrepid canine culinary explorers posted on Instagram, just for fun—and when we stumbled onto their accounts, this cookbook was born. Now, dogs are hungry for more. Post your creation and tag @WestPawUS.



SPRING RECIPES BY

Joanie, Maya, Summit, & Essa

Joanie hails from northern Quebec, where she works as a nurse and lives with her two human boys and three dog-recipe-taste-testers—a senior boston terrier who morphs into a puppy when it’s walkie time, a dashing border collie who loves dirt, and an Alaskan mix who loves to be mommy’s furry shadow.

@the_little_dog_crew