You can run the dish under hot water to make the block release faster, but don’t do this if you freeze it in a glass container! The glass container could shatter from the hot/cold temperature difference. The best way to do it is just to let it thaw on the counter for 10 minutes.
Just keep stacking on treats and broth or water until your bowl is filled! I did about four layers, but you could do as many or as few as you want, really. This freezes and as it melts it runs down the sides – dogs love it.
One fun step that I like to do is add a thin layer of peanut butter. Here’s my first layer of bacon and water frozen almost solid. Make layers of treats and water/broth so the treats are distributed throughout the whole block. I used a large measuring cup, but you could definitely just use mixing bowl or something. Speaking of bowls, you can use any freezer-safe bowl to make these blocks. Porter likes these fake bacon things so I tossed a few of those into the bowl. By the time they freeze, they’ll be really mushy and kind of gross. I wouldn’t use any kind of cracker treat. Just use whatever treats your dog normally eats. I’ve done both methods and my dog didn’t seem to care much whether I used water or broth.Īs far as treats go, it’s really up to you. If you don’t have any broth, you can definitely just use water. If you have some leftover beef broth around (low sodium is best) you can make a very light beef broth with three parts water to one part broth that your dogs will love! This isn’t really much of a recipe, but I’ll give you some pointers for making your own ice block treat for your dog. To help my dog, Porter, beat the heat this week, I made him a huge frozen block of ice with a lot of his favorite treats frozen right into the block. After all, they can’t sweat so all that heat just gets trapped! Sometimes we humans forget that our little furry companions can get even hotter than we are. It’s so hot that even my dog doesn’t want to move from beneath the A/C vents.
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