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Fur-Kids Product Reviews

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Make yummy & cute GF cakes! See Page 25.

5 Food Choices | Treat your pooch right and keep your self from getting glutened! What you don’t know MIGHT be hurting you.

8 Recipes | Let Fido try these new healthy treats that are sure to ease his belly and soften his coat!

19 Fun Toys | These toys are sure to last hours playing with your furry buddy.

23 Ardenne Farms | Test baking of some yummy treats, read up and test out

32 Udi’s | Expansion of the GF line and now selling in Costco, what’s next for the US’ favorite GF brand?

44 Red Apple | Beauty and Brains? That’s right the owners of Red Apple Lipstick have created products that won’t hurt you and will improve your natural looks.

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R eguardless of your doggy training style, everyone shares a common goal. A happy, healthy, well-behaved, and well-trained dog. But ask any puppy parent or experienced dog trainer and they will say that it’s easier said than done. It’s complicated since we set so many standards of perfection for our pets, but we also don’t always take into account our lifestyles and environments the dog and their parents live in. For puppy parents it can be a trying time espe-cially if you have allergies yourself.

Food allergies in humans are becoming more and more common. This presents a challenge when you want to open your home to a pet. Typical dog foods have dairy, gluten, soy, eggs, fish, and peanuts. While some of these are fantastic and obviously great for your dog, you don’t want to jeporadize your own health.

While many specialty dog foods are expensive, you have to ask yourself is it worth it? Glu-ten-free dog food is important to me. If my dog eats gluten there is a chance that she can “gluten” me. And if she is gluten-free it can even help her health. Dogs aren’t made to eat wheat, they are made to eat meat, fish, eggs, and fruit.

So not only will the switch help you stay safe, but can improve the health of your dog in the long term. Varities of dry dog food that is allergy free or grain free are really expanding and dropping in price. Costco now sells 40lb bags of their Kirkland Grain Free Blend for $28.99 a bag, a very similar price to the 40lb bags available at Target from Pedigree, which ring in at just about $24.00 a bag.

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As someone with Celiac I tend to worry about cross-contamination and how to avoid getting sick. Being “gluten-ed” isn’t fun, no matter if it’s via eating, beauty products, or just the stupidity of other people. For me I break out in hives from contact or use of products that contain gluten, but also get violently ill if I consume gluten. I’m just happy after so many years I was finally diagnosed and my life has gotten SO much better ever since.

Dogs have always been a big part of my life. I got my 1st fur-sister Pal, a German Shep/Border Collie Mix in January of 1997, an absolutely amazing pup! Sadly Pal passed after my sophomore year of college while I was in northern Wisconsin visiting J. She was one of those dogs that would let you just hug her and talk for hours. As a sick kid, Pal was my best friend.

Pal did amazing just eating plain old Pedigree, but the story was different with Koda. Koda aka Krack/Krackhead/Krackers is a “special pup”. She had this adorable yet annoying “twizzle” on her tail until fairly recently and she is an end-less supply of laughter. Koda is going to be 2 in October and has rightfully taken over as the baby of the family.

But for some odd reason Krack has odd skin issues. The poor girl goes through spurts where she itches til she bleeds and is just raw all over. I guess when we adopted her as a pup she had been treated for a staph infec-tion, but no one ever though there would be prolonged issues. BUT after I went gluten-free and my mom was

reading, she decided a gluten-free diet for Koda may work too. Maybe she has a gluten-intolerance or something?

Since starting the Costco grain-free dry food, Koda has had an amazing turn around! Her fur is softer, her moods are more level, and her weight is finally on the uptrend. As someone with Celiac it’s crazy to see especially since once I went gluten-free I had the same great things happen as well as a few more. Not only is it great to see Koda doing so much better, it’s nice to know I will be safe as well. Typical dog food contains barley, wheat protein, and other sources of gluten.

If you are feeding your dog these types of foods it can be horrible for you. Feed-ing them food that isn’t gluten free can lead to you getting “glutened”. With a dog you risk cross-contamination after feeding them, and also after they get done

eating. It wouldn’t be any fun to have your dog chow down on some gluten-filled kibble then lick your hand, like seriously that’s just a chance I wouldn’t want to take!

So to keep my new addition Aspen and myself safe we will be starting on the Nature’s Domain Beef & Sweet Potato when she comes home May 18th. Stay tuned for more ways to keep not only yourself gluten-free and safe, but also your furry friends. For more fun try out one of our favorite gluten-free pup recipes on the next page and tweet them to us at the @thesportyceliac Twitter handle, #glutenfreepup :)

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Active: 10 min | Total 30 minYield: 36 balls

1 (15oz) can of pumpkin1 cup of gluten-free oats1 cup peanut butter1/4 cup chopped apples

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray baking sheet with oil or butter so balls don’t stick2. Meanwhile mix the pumpkin and peanut butter with the chopping apples.3. Slowly incorporate eggs into the wet mixture then begin to add in the oats.4. Let cool in fridge for about 10 minutes and then roll the dugh into balls.5. Bake balls in oven for 10 minutes or until golden brown and then LET COOL before giving them to your furry friend.

Pal’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin Balls

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