The newest member of our family, Cooper the basset hound, turned 2 this month and we had a doggie celebration in his honor!

Since charcuterie boards are all the rage and I love making them for parties, I decided to make a pup friendly version called a Doggie Barkcuterie Board!

This fun snack for your doggies can be assembled easily in minutes and features both dog treats and veggies, fruits, and eggs!

Scroll down for Cooper’s party pics and the details on how to make your own the barkcuterie board.

Happy 2nd birthday to our sweet boy Cooper!

I used a variety of dog friendly snacks for the treat board including dog jerky, milkbones,

and small dog treats along with healthy human food like apple slices, baby carrots, cut out cheese, and boiled egg. 

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Doggie Barkcuterie Birthday Board

Ingredients

• variety of small or cut up dog treats like cup up jerky milkbone cookies, small dog treats and training treats
• assortment of sliced dog friendly fruit and veggies like apples carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower
• 1 boiled egg sliced
• 4 slices of cheese cut in bone shapes (optional)
• decorated dog friendly birthday or themed cookies
• plain yogurt or peanut butter optional

Instructions

• Using a large flat platter or tray, preferably unbreakable plastic or wood, start by adding a row of cut out cheese and stacks of a variety of dog treats (I like flat, cut in half chicken jerky and small training size treats).
• If you want to add a small bowl of yogurt or peanut butter, add a small bowl of either to the tray. Warning- this gets messy!
• Next, add sliced fruit in rows.
• Finally, add sliced eggs and fill in empty spaces with mini dog treats (I like mini milkbones).
• If you have decorated dog cookies like I do add those on top and serve to your hungry pups!

Notes

Be sure to skip any foods that are not safe for dogs like grapes, nuts, raisins, onion, candy, and chocolate. 
This is a lot of food for 1 or 2 dogs! We let them eat some then bagged the rest for later.

The kinds of dog treats you use is up to you and what your dog likes. These are some of my favorites. Remember small sizes or cut up is best.

My dogs love fruit and veggies so I made sure to add sliced apples, baby carrots, sliced boiled egg, and cheese to the tray too.

I used extra thin, sandwich sliced cheese and cut out bone shapes for my dog themed tray!

Start adding rows and fill in with small dog treats at the end!

Copper what do you think?!

He was one happy pup! We are so lucky to have him in our lives. 

Nom, nom,nom. Cooper shared with his brother but it was still a lot of food for 1 or 2 dogs!

We let them eat some then bagged the rest for later.

Aren’t the cookies adorable! These were only used for photos and were made by Keichel Cookies

So many treats, so little time!

Life is so much butter with dogs in it! Am I right?

Happy Birthday Cooper!

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This month we celebrated my sweet boy Dylan‘s 7th birthday.

Celebrating his birthday in style!

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Hot Doggie Sandwich

Makes 4 sandwiches

Ingredients

• 4 turkey hot dogs cooked
• 4 hamburger buns
• 4 slices cheese
• 12 black beans
• mustard and ketchup and any other toppings you like

Instructions

• To assemble: Cut out cheese shapes (2 eyes and 2 ears) using a pairing knife. I used a 1/4 tsp scoop to trace 2 round eyes for each sandwich and just cut out floppy ear shapes for ears.
• "Glue" shapes onto top buns with a dab of mustard or ketchup.
• Add beans for pupils and a nose.
• Add cooked hotdogs in between top and bottom buns, adding ketchup and mustard if you'd like.

She watched her Daddy grilling from the living room and asked to go “out”!

Remember: DO NOT feed your dogs pork hotdogs. Pork can cause Trichinosis, a food borne disease caused by an intestinal roundworm. We found this out the hard way when my parent’s dog had a bite of pork chop and was deathly ill. Be careful what you feed to your pets!

 

Celebrate National Pet Month by taking your pet on extra walks or to the dog park if the weather is nice like it is here! Give them extra treats and cuddles to show them you how much you care! They deserve it and will sure appreciate it!

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