Blueberries?

TOto don't eat blueberries unless we split it for him, so weird ...

TOto Loves Mammeee's Peanut Butter Honey biscuit!

Nowadays I don't use recipe anymore for TOto's biscuit, it's all ESTIMATION!

The dryer the dough, the better it is for Singapore weather.

So I just adjust the 'yoghurt' depending on the dough.

Anyway the recipe now is ...
1 cup flour (Whole wheat + Barley)
1/4 cup of Baby Oats
1 tbsp All Natural Honey
1 tbsp Olive Oil
1/4 cup of All Natural Peanut Butter (or less)
A pinch of Salt.
1 tbsp Yoghurt (or more depending on dough)
110C 1 hour or more. 

Doesn't matter what flour, just make it 1 cup.

Using a 1/4 tsp to shape his biscuit.

If the dough becomes too dry add more yoghurt, not ALOT more like half tbsp here and there to soften  the dough for easy roll out.

TOto making sure I doing everything RIGHT!

And hoping I drop a dough here and there ...

YA abit of the dough WON'T kill them!

Ready to bake ...

Waiting rather impatiently hahahaha ...

Last about 2 weeks and I start baking again ...

Some obvious changes with Raw Diet ...

Look at the new fur growing out of his muzzle, it looks like the discolouration are clearing up!

But then again, has it got to do with the water in Singapore as compared to the water in Texas? 

Well, hmmmmm ...

But it is so obvious that the new fur growing out are all WHITE!

TOto enjoying his bowl of Duck Meat!

Daddeee thinks that the discolouration on his back is getting better too!

There are more white fur growing out and maybe after a session of handstripping, the remaining discoloured fur will be totally removed?

This is a picture when TOto just came back to Singapore ...

Look at the back, his back has this slight beigey-cream tint to it, and we figured that it is in his Gene. But come to think of it, it might be the kibbles?

A recent picture of him looking so much whiter ...

Look at how WHITE he is!

Or is it just the 'WATER' issue?

A new container ...

Finally gotten a more appropriate size container for TOto's new batch of home baked biscuit!

Love it!

♥

Into a Raw diet for almost 1.5 month ...

I realised that if I gave TOto a full part, he will just try to CRUNCH the meat/bone down in a few crunch and then tries to swallow everything; sometimes accidentally choking himself or 'almost' choking himself. A few times I managed to pull it out, hold it for him and then he tries to crunch it slower but if he is doing it by himself he will just crunch crunch crunch and SWALLOW!

So I tried to cut out the meat and then smash the bone, I think he ate better this way!!!

He actually ate slower, sometimes even being picky with the meat, most times picking out the heart and livers that he hate!

Duck meat, Chicken meat, Egg, Chicken liver, yohurt, Seameal

Well more work for me but I think, he gets to savour the meat slowly and then LASTLY chew the bone ...

NOW he refuses to have a part if its too big, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 'PAMPERED!'

So far he is done with his DUCK, reverting back to chicken for 1 week and maybe trying out PORK soon?

TOto's favorite Peanut Butter honey baby oats biscuit!

I had already tried baking a few batches of biscuit for TOto in Singapore and realized that the humidity in Singapore doesn't allows the biscuit to be too wet. The wetter version just gets mouldy in a few days, and its disgusting!! But luckily I have a successful version to use in Singapore! And it's just a few simple ingredients; Whole wheat flour, Oat flour, Baby Oats, Peanut Butter, Honey and egg! 

I used a 1/4 spoon to individually mold out the biscuit shape, you can however do it anyway you like it! Another version that I like was to flatten everything and just cut/roll them with Pizza cutter.

These are some of the PREMIUM products that we add in his biscuits; and you know how much we LOVE HIM! I shared my PREMIUM RAW HONEY with him!

Luckily I was able to find a 100% Natural Peanut Butter in Singapore NTUC Finest. There is only ONE ingredient, which is PEANUTS!

The 2 type of flour that I used but I am going to omit Whole wheat and maybe tried out Barley flour next!

Read on for Ingredients ...

TOto basic supplement ...

Just for a record ...

Fish oil for his skin and fur, Garlic oil for immunity and flea/ticks prevent and Solidgold Seameal for the Trace minerals, Vitamins, Amino acids, and most importantly Digestive enzymes.

TOto only starts using Solidgold Seameal after being on raw diet.

The result were great right after but it might also be just a co-incident so I cannot comment much. TOto poop was quite runny the first week he was on Raw diet, and his poop harden right after he used the Solidgold seameal but forummers were saying usually the first week or so, furrykids will have runny poops soooo ...

He hates Garlic Oil and we usually have to cover it up with yoghurt. But there were times he still managed to spit out just the garlic pill! Arrghhhh ...

This is Y ...

... daddeee needs to GO WORK!

These are the main kibbles TOto is feeding on now : 

• Acana Duck & Bartlett Pear Limited Ingredient Formula Dry Dog Food
• Orijen 6-Fish Grain-Free Dry Dog Food
• Stella & Chewy's Freeze-Dried Raw Duck Dinner

And to keep them as FRESH as possible, we usually get the smaller packets.

TOto and breakfast!

This is TOto sitting beautifully waiting for his breakfast.

We never guess why he did that, he would sit a distance away in a very comfortable position looking intensely at me preparing his breakfast. The nearer he sat to the kitchen counter, the hungrier he is BUT he will never sit right at my feet. WE guess, the further away, the more he can see what I am doing on the kitchen counter.

His usual breakfast; 1/4cup of kibbles, a dash of Stella and chewy dried patty, a few scoop of Cottage cheese, his garlic pills and fish oil pills.

If I forget his Cottage Cheese, he will come forward to sniff and goes back to his original position to wait until I remember to top his 'precious' cottage cheese.

See how INTENSE he is, never turning away ...

Yeah he is very hungry today!

He came straight to the bowl without me 'inviting' him ...

After any meal, he would request for dessert ...

And this is TOto's new dessert!

This is how TOto request for his dessert with his pleading EYE's power!

And he knows he has to eat his biscuit on "mat mat".

But he very naughty, he is playing Cat and mouse with his treat!

He will play acting with the treat, tossing and running around with his it' for a few minutes.

He has to MAKE SURE his biscuit/treat is TOTALLY DEAD, before he gobble it down and ask for second, third and forth until mammeee shout, 'NO MORE'!

Orijen 6 Fish & Lamb & Acana Okanagan Apple AND Fish oil Supplement!

Acana Okanagan Apple is finally in Texas!

We have been reading about Acana Okanagan Apple since last year, the ingredient list fitted what we wanted for TOto but one of the originial ingredient is not approved in USA. And after repackaging, it is finally here. We have to go out of our usual route to get them.

COMPOSITION Dehydrated lamb (27%), deboned lamb (15%), steel-cut oats, peas, whole apples (10%), whole potato, sunflower oil, oat flakes, lamb liver (3%), sun-cured alfalfa, whole pears, algae meal (source of DHA, EPA), pea fiber, sweet potato, pumpkin, butternut squash, parsnips, carrots, spinach, cranberries, blueberries, kelp, chicory root, juniper berries, angelica root, marigold flowers, sweet fennel, peppermint leaf, lavender, rosemary, plus premium vitamins and minerals.

ANALTICAL CONSTITUENTS Crude protein (min.) 25 %

Now he is on 50-50 mix of both kibbles.

Unlike the other grain-based kibbles;  Acana Okanagan Apple aren't as grainy. It is almost as compact as Orijen 6 fish and smaller in size too which will be perfect for smaller dogs. TOto is a lazy dog, he prefer smallers kibbles or biscuits. He will refused biscuit that are too big, and I have to break them to smaller pieces for him.

Left : Orijen 6 fish, Right :  Acana Okanagan Apple

As compared,  Orijen 6 fish kibbles has a smoother surface.

We topped TOto's kibbles with Stella and Chewy; 'All-natural frozen and freeze-dried raw pet food' for dogs. THIS is very expensive, so we use them sparingly, hahaha!

Nancy Cultured low fat Cottage Cheese is a STAPLE.

This helps with his tummy and gives TOto firm firm poop with its LIVE CULTURE!

Recently TOto has been waking up in the middle of the night @4am, and scratching himself relentlessly. We really do not know what to do and we took a risk and give him ONE Fish Oil Capsule every dinner. 

And the effect is very obvious, by the 2nd night he stops waking up and scratching himself. 

Even Hubs can see the result and was really amazed.

And we are lucky this is on discount at GNC, only USD9.99 for 360 capsule!

So this is TOto's dinner

One very OBVIOUS reaction from TOto that he loves Acana Okanagan Apple, he didn't pick out his Wellness Simple kibbles and place them on the floor. He has this bad habit of picking out a few Wellness Simple kibbles when he starts his dinner, so weird.

Now he just gobbles everything down.

TOto

mum-mum lor ~