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 anna // singaporean. my dream is to some day live in a countryside and have a lot of dogs. reach me on
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Thursday, September 17, 2015
Baby & Her Meatball
Disclaimer: By reading this blog post, your dog may get fat.. Seriously.
So sometime back in July, I got a Maltipoo! She goes by the name of Baby. Honestly, I had Colgate for her because she's so white but she just didn't acknowledge the name. Until one day when I was about to bathe her, I subconsciously called on her "Baby, come here." and she came hopping happily. Baby it is.
Baby is my first dog and she was 7 weeks old when I brought her back. The face you see up there is how we spend our days. The first few nights were tedious as I kept her locked in the kitchen with a fence and she would cry every night. Evidence:
I woke up 4 to 5 times during the night to put her back to bed. I knew it had to stop but she was my baby and she's really baby-like with her gentleness (it was a lie) and sad puppy eyes. I left her alone by the second week and now she's no longer locked after she's toilet trained. She runs around the house freely and sleeps with me in the bedroom. As she was my first dog, many friends and family around me started sharing some tips + watching all Cesar Millan videos helped me trained her to be who she is today. She doesn't bark (almost at all), knows where to pee and some basic commands. One of the tips I've gotten is that if you cook for your dog, they live longer because the food is fresh and non-preserved. Yes, even kibbles are dried preserved food so... The Gordon Ramsay in me had to whip up some good food for her after she is able to chew solid food. The first few rounds was a major fail because I learnt the following:
So I started cooking only meat for her since puppies' meal should consist of 50% meat, I decided to cook a slab of meat for her every other day for a meal. Then I got better.. Instead of buying slab / chunk of meat, I bought minced meat because I realized that I can mix everything she doesn't want to eat into the minced meat and make them into meatballlz.
She doesn't like her vitamins, fish oil, eggs, salmon fish and vegetables so the Sherlock Holmes in me found the ultimate way to get her to chuck down anything I want her to. I mean if I am going to cook for her, the effort should be worth the vitamins, calcium and iron right? Since then she has been loving her food that she doesn't want to eat her kibbles now. Yes I still leave kibbles for her before I leave work but whenever I'm home with her, I realized she eat that one two kibbles for show and whenever I open the fridge (where her meatballs are), she starts begging for them like hey all my fav food are in the fridge right, get me some.
Okay, here's the very simple recipe:
Step One: Defrost The Meat
There are many types of minced meat you can get from the supermarket / fresh market. Normally I would get beef, lamb, chicken and pork. After she tried beef and lamb, she never touched pork or chicken -.- but anyways, I would normally mix two meat - a red and a white. (Red meat = beef and lamb. White meat = chicken and pork) In the photo above we have lamb and pork.
Step Two: Mince Them Up 
Again, there are many types of food you can mix with your meat. Carrots, boiled sweet potato or pumpkin, corn etc. I'm not sure if it applies to every dog but I would use a blender to blend the vegetable because I don't want it to be in chunk form for her to pick out. And in the above photo, we have lamb + pork with minced carrot. I do secretly add a dash of low fat bacon bits though, but if you prefer not to give your dog any preservatives, by all means exclude the bacon.
Mix them well until it's dough-like. I've tried adding too much water and it turns soggy and as this is minced meat, the meatball will not come out as a ball. It'll be just messy minced meat.
Step Three: Roll Them & Boil It
Normally I would roll them next to the boiling water so once they are round and compact, I'd throw it in. What compact? I make sure they are not too dry or wet so that I can still easily shape them and the shape stays even after it's cooked.
She LOVES it even though all her vegetables are mixed into it. Sometimes she have them as snack, sometimes as a meal. When she has this as a meal, she can easily eat up to 25 of them. If they do not finish them all, you can keep the meatballs in a tupperware. That's what I do. So I can feed her the rest the next few days. I'm not exactly sure how long can the meatballs be kept but I normally cook a tray of meat (around 300g) at once and it last for around 3 days.
*Some dogs may prefer their cooked food to be heated up so try serving them cold first and if they do not fancy it, heat it up using a mircowave. It definitely cost more than their kibbles but when you see them enjoying each mouthful, it's worth it + you and I know they might be the only living thing on Earth that appreciates our cooking :P
That's all for today. Share with me your pet's favourite recipe here and follow Baby on Instagram here. Oh, and here's a photo of her all grown up.
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