Dog addicted to jerky
My dog is addicted to jerky! Found some salmon jerky at the local big chain pet mart a few months back and my dog, Sune is addicted to it. It is a sure fire way of getting her to come inside from her digging expeditions (I swear she is part groundhog!). Went to restock on the supply today and sadly, they were sold out. I saw another kind of jerky for sale made of duck and thought, what the heck, let’s see if she likes this (stores should really have samples so we puppets of our pets can buy something they will eat and not turn their noses up on once we get it home and opened). Got it home, opened the bag and she was like a crack addict mugging me for a fix! Gave her a piece of it (gotta make it last in these harsh economic times here at the Grove…maybe we should just catch lizards (not Bob) and turn them into jerky as she seems to get a kick out of eating those in the back yard…guess you need a quick snack for energy when digging craters in the dirt that was once grass) and she was in heaven! Her eyes were wide in excitement as she nommed on the dehydrated duck flesh (did you even chew it, girl?) and was begging for more…guess that means she likes it. As I am writing this, I can hear her in the kitchen yapping for more…I just know when I walk out there, she will be looking at me and moving her head in the direction of the counter where we keep it, then back at me, then back at the counter as if to say “Well, what are you waiting for slave? Slip me some more JERKY!”
Take a tip from that Food Network guy Alton Brown. Find a 20″ box fan and at least two 20 X 20 paper media furnace air filters. Go buy the cheapest, lean meat (beef, chicken, or fish). Slice it thin, lay it between the filters and bungee the sandwich to the back of the box fan. Set the fan somewhere safe from Sune and turn it on. In about a day or so you have jerky.
my worry would be the meat going bad while waiting for it to go all jerky…lol