07/14/2024
Hi, folks here at 8 Paws Approved we are up to curious things resulting in new awesome ideas for your pups and kitties. One of our top priorities is to make sure that what ever we are making for your pups is highly nutritious and delicious. I spend a good amount of time attending pet summits on nutrition so that I have qualified professional advice from those who know before I create my recipes. However, I think we have made a grand mistake!! 🤯 Well, it's probably not a mistake per se, but it's certainly is a mistake for my house! As you know, I am a home based business and therefore all of the preparing, baking, and dehydrating all happens here at home. Well, today we have decided to experiment with green tripe. Now, I have made tripe treats in the past, however, it has been with a blanched cleaned tripe. While having extra calories is necessary for lactating or pregnant mamas, I feel like the nutrition value was fairly depleted in the cleaning process of the tripe I used. Therefore, I purchased a small amount of green tripe to dehydrate to see if it would be something I would add to my menu offerings going forward. NOW I understand why this is NOT a common item bakers make outside of maybe say a commercial environment.Ya know where they don't have to live! At first, just handling the tripe was a pretty stinky endeavor. And I had known from doing nutritional research that it could be a pretty smelly process dehydrating it. But for the love of puppies, the foul stomach wrenching stench is beyond nauseating! 😝🤢 It could take 24-48 hours to fully dehydrate. I'm sure the dogs think it's wonderful. I absolutely do not.😨 This could be the only time I offer this so if you happen to see me at my next few markets and there are some tripe rings or twists left, GET 'em while you can! For those of you feeding raw diets or are very knowledgeable about pet diets, you already know green tripe is super nutritious for your pet. But it is probably not going to become a regular menu item based on this experience! I'm seriously afraid to leave a house because if I do and cleanse my olfactory senses only to walk back in and have to smell this, I might not be able to finish the process. 😬😵💫 I have now raised the funk factor of dehydrating raw beef liver to a reasonable level of tolerance in comparison!! Oy, the things we do because we LOVE our pets!!❣️🐾
