Health & Fitness
Dog Treats for Hot Days: Peanut Butter Popsicles?
Recipes for peanut butter dog popsicles abound. The City of Fairfax recommends the treat as a reminder to keep your pets cool, too.
FAIRFAX CITY, VA — How do you keep your pets cool during the latest heat wave? The Fairfax City is offering its tips, including this treat for your dog:
"You can even make peanut butter popsicles for them to cool them off."
Wait. What?
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Peanut butter popsicles? For pets?
Doing our due diligence, we've promptly stumbled upon precisely that phenomenon.
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Turns out there's all but a cottage industry for the things, particularly when it comes to dogs.
Even the Humane Society of the United States is in on the action, with a recipe for the apparent canine treat.
Their ingredients: 1 cup peanut butter, preferably unsalted and unsweetened (no xylitol) and half a ripe banana. See the instructions and more treat tips from the HSUS.
And we know you're out there, so we'd like you to send us your thoughts, photos, recipes or anything else remotely related to the aforementioned City of Fairfax missive regarding peanut butter popsicles for pets.
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Photo by Meredith Lee/The HSUS
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