We all know I love my dogs like they're my children.
This is partly because one of my dogs is extremely high maintenance.
Ripley the studly german shepherd you see below is highly allergic to...pretty much to life.
I'm not kidding...
He's allergic to cats, carrots, grass, sagebrush, birch, pecans, soy, wheat, corn, cow's milk, yeast, pork, beef, mosquitos,
house dust, about ten more different weeds, potatoes, HUMAN skin cells (so our love), and numerous other things.
It's kind of exhausting.
But not as exhausting for him. The above picture doesn't really look like him anymore.
His fur has gotten dry and itchy, his nose is always running, and his bottom lip is extremely swollen.
So what are we to do?
Spend hundreds of dollars on allergy testing? Check!
Spend hundreds of dollars on immunotherapy? Check!
Spend even more money on grain free/gluten free dog food free of most things he's allergic to? Check!
I'm getting off topic.
Needless to say Ripley cannot have a lot of things out on the doggie market today.
I'm waiting on some new treats to come in but in the mean time decided to make my own.
He's allergic to potatoes but not sweet potatoes... I don't get it but oh well...
I spent about $1 on one sweet potato and got a nice sized bag of doggie treats.
All I did was slice them up into strips and bake them in the oven for about 5 hours.
The oven temp was 225.
I checked on them every couple hours to make sure they were getting crispy but not burnt.
The dogs LOVED them.
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