This potato meme was posted on Facebook recently. It gave me a chuckle. Then I started thinking about pumpkins. Pumpkins, not a veggie but a fruit, we use as props for photos, to make beer, pies, bread, Jack-O-Lanterns, and the seeds are delicious. It’s a useful food!

Most dogs love pumpkin! Fresh or canned. It’s excellent for both diarrhea and constipation. I make pumpkin-peanut-butter dog training food that gets dogs’ attention and motivation.

Here is a video from 2013 of my beloved Dobermann, Luigi, who used to love pumpkin time.

Every year, pre-Halloween, I buy at least one pumpkin. I bought two pumpkins this year, and it wasn’t till the second week in December that I cut the second one up into usable parts. Longevity! We use every part of the pumpkin. The meat, seeds, and even the skins to fertilize Mother Earth. And if any varmints want to help themselves to those pieces, they’re welcome to them.

This year I tried something new by cutting strips of the fresh pumpkin and stuffing them into dehydrated trachea, which I then put into freezer bags and into the chest freezer. This will be a delicious treat for the dogs! There’s a photo of the treats in the slide show below.

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Next year buy a pumpkin. You’ll enjoy creating pumpkin treats for your dogs and you!

Helen Verte Schwarzmann, contact me
Certified in Training and Counseling
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