Food filled enrichment toys like Kongs (stuffies) are a fantastic way to enrich your dog’s life, by using their natural instinct to hunt for their food.

The recipes below are based on a medium sized dog, so please reduce the portion size if your dog is small.

Remember:

• Remember to reduce your dog’s regular food amount to compensate for feeding them treats like those listed below so they so they don’t become overweight
• Introduce new foods slowly over time

What you’ll need:

• A suitable sized dispenser toy (depending on which one your dog finds most fun)
• A spoon and a butter knife to stuff the mixture in
• A blender or a masher
• Wooden spoon for mixing
• Mixing bowl
• Cling film for frozen recipes

Tip

Give your dog the right amount for their size/weight and keep any leftovers for them to tuck into another day. If your dog has any underlying conditions, please speak to your vet to ensure the below ingredients are safe for them to eat!

FROZEN STUFFY RECIPES

Frozen Kongs are perfect for those hot summer days to help dogs cool down – for more info on keeping your pets cool, please click here!

Tip

Add something to act as a stopper (like a dry treat) on the hole at the bottom so food can’t get out when it freezes. Wrap your Kong in cling film so the mixture can set in the freezer without spilling.

Frozen Kong recipes for dogs

• Mix plain yoghurt with a tbsp of dog specific peanut butter (available in pet shops)
• Wet dog food – nice and simple!
• One tbsp soft cheese, 50g cooked pumpkin and 80g wet dog food
• Blend 120g cooked rice with 40g peas and 40g carrots

Recipe Suggestions

• Mash one scrambled egg and tbsp of cottage cheese
• Mix one tin of salmon with a level tsp of runny coconut oil
• Mashed sweet potato with peas and one tbsp of cottage cheese
• Mix tin of tuna, cooked rice and small amount of cottage cheese
• Mash cooked pumpkin with pieces of plain, cooked chicken

• Mix plain yoghurt with dog specific peanut butter
• Mash a banana, yogurt and dog specific peanut butter
• Mix blueberries or strawberries with plain Greek yoghurt

Important

Peanut butter must be xylitol free – as xylitol is toxic to dogs. As it can often be listed in the ingredients as a different name, such as birch sugar, wood sugar, birch bark extract, sucre de bouleau, the European code E967, or Meso-Xylitol, it’s safer to give dog specific peanut butter which you can find in pet shops.