The truth is homemade dog treats are a whole lot healthier, cheaper and tastier than the treats you buy in pet shops. Pork scratchings are a great dog treat. So easy to make, no cooking skills required and cheap as chips. I buy the pork rind from Morrisons supermarket for about 50p – 80p a pack, best times to find them at my store is Saturdays. But if you know a nice butcher and are friendly then you could get it for free.
I made this last week and wasn’t sure how the dogs would like it but after giving a piece to my own dog I knew I was onto a winner.
Right, let’s do this thing!
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One packet of pork belly
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Place pork belly in oven tray and preheat oven to 180c. Make sure the skin is well scored otherwise the skin will split from the fat underneath.
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After about 45 mins take it out the oven and leave to cool
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Leave to cook and break up into little pieces!
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Tasty homemade dog treat pork scratchings
So now I’m a little confused after reading the post and I figure you updated it now because one guys talked about boiling it for an hour.
But I just put it in 185 for an hour? Guess I’ll find out and experiment
Hi Jamie – I have two daxies, one with IBS and have started making their food so I know exactly what’s in there. My boy seems to be allergic to chicken which seems to be in everything on supermarket shelves – he’s also incredibly fussy, so these recipes, together with my own ‘proper’ dinners are saving my life. Thank you so much for putting up this website. I would love to promote you on my own website somehow. I was thinking of doing a canine nutrition course but to be honest it’s just plain common sense isn’t it?
My one question to you is – I was always told that pork isn’t good for dogs yet pork scratchings and pigs’ liver feature in your recipes. Please could you put my mind at ease over this as both my dogs go bonkers when there’s a sausage on the barbecue or a roast pork joing in the oven and I’d love to share! Thanks again. Gilly
Instead of drying out in the oven,could they dry in a dehydrator.just a thought.
Yeah they can and I did consider adding that to the post but I dont think most people will have a dehydrator.
Hi Jamie,
Just made these today – fantastic! Cost 55p for 3 pieces of pork rind at Morri’s last night. I followed your instructions, boiled for an hour, put them rind side down in the oven, checked after 25 mins, then flipped them and cooked for another 5 mins. I have a fan oven and they went in at 190 degrees. I had to put them in a tub after the 3 of us (me and my 2 dogs!) “tested” quite a few bits.
One thing: I did score them into squares with a very sharp knife before they went into the oven. Hope this helps!
Thanks Rosie! Sounds like you did a good job. I will be redoing his recipe soon as I have found a better way of making them. They are delicious I just love them!
Jamie