Mary Allen
Treats are not only delicious for mice, rats, and hamsters, they also bring fun to the rodent home. They require brains and present your darling with tricky challenges. Let yourself be inspired by tasty recipes here. There is sure to be a treat for your darling too.
Customizable: Perfect for Your Darling
First, we want to introduce you to a flexible and tasty recipe for treats for small rodents that you can adapt to your pet’s preferences. This proposal suggests carrots as a vegetable ingredient for the cookies, but you can just as easily use apples, pears, or bananas, for example. Take 100 g of your chosen favorite fruit or vegetable, plus 100 g broken corn, 100 g millet, 100 g peeled sunflower seeds, 100 g chopped peanuts, 2 eggs, and 2 tablespoons honey. Mix all of these ingredients well and use a spoon to form small cookies out of the dough. Place these on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Then bake the whole thing at 180 ° C for about 10 minutes until golden brown and let it cool down well until it is served to the little ones.
Recipes for Fun and Games
Now we want to introduce you to two recipes for treats for hamsters, mice, and rats that are not only easy to plaster but also challenge your pet.
Take half a packet of fruit muesli (approx. 250 g), 50 g of chopped hazelnuts, 2 eggs, 3 teaspoons of honey, 2 tablespoons of flour, and 4 walnuts. Mix all ingredients except for the walnuts and use a normal kitchen roll – but only the cardboard inner part. You cut this into four equal parts and then fill them halfway with the snack mixture. Stuff a walnut in the middle (without the shell, of course) and fill the rest of the roll with the dough again – press it tightly! Then bake the rolls at approx. 150 ° C for 30 minutes and turn them from time to time.
Our second suggestion is nibble rings: the hole in the middle is ideal for hanging them on a thread so that your pet has to stretch and balance to get to the treat. Mix 100 g oat flakes, 40 g sesame seeds, 1 carrot, 1 egg, possibly a little water, and 1 teaspoon honey, roll out thick and cut out rings with a hole in the middle. Then wrap them on baking paper and bake at 175 ° C for a quarter of an hour. Also important here: let it cool down, otherwise, your rodent will burn itself.
The Recipe for the Spontaneous
The next recipe is ideal if you don’t have any flakes, nuts, or other “special” ingredients in-house. All you need is 150 g of normal rodent food, 1 small egg, and 1 tbsp flour. You mix these three ingredients and form small heaps on a baking sheet – again with baking paper, of course. Then press the piles flat with a spoon and bake them hard at 150 ° C for 40-50 minutes.
Our Special: a Christmas Recipe
A slice of black bread, some flour, water, your pet’s favorite grain food, possibly rodent nibbles, herbs, and a Christmas tree cookie cutter. Of course, the whole thing works with any cookie cutter you choose. First, you cut out the desired shape (s) from the bread and place them on a toaster or on the heater until they are dry and really hard; this is the basis for your crispy tree. Mix a kind of glue from flour and water and apply it to the dried bread. Next, you apply the grains and herbs to the bread – make sure that everything sticks nicely. The Christmas tree is then dried in the oven at 170 ° C for about 20 minutes. After it has cooled down, you can even top it and stick your rodent’s favorite treats on the tree again with the flour glue. Then the whole thing has to dry again briefly in the oven.
Treats for Mice, Rats and Hamsters are Easy to Make Yourself
Your pet will definitely like at least one or the other recipe. Make sure, however, that you do not overdo it with the treats for small animals and that you reduce the daily amount of food if necessary. Overweight small animals have less freedom of movement and fun and are also more prone to disease and joint problems. If you pay attention to this, nothing stands in the way of baking and nibbling pleasure.