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Grandpa Hank Was Making Cookies. Pretzel Had Her Eyes on the Bowl.

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Flour is everywhere: dusted across the butcher-block counter, puffed in little clouds near the bag, and drifting toward the edge where a very interested nose is waiting. Grandpa Hank, in a plaid shirt with his suspenders hitched up, is working a wooden spoon through a big steel bowl of cookie dough. A tray of neatly rounded scoops sits ready for the oven beside him. Pretzel has pressed herself right up against the counter, chin barely clearing the edge, eyes fixed on that bowl with the kind of focus usually reserved for squirrels. Warm pendant lamps and family photos on the wall make the kitchen glow.

As tempting as it is to share, cookie dough is a hard no for dogs. Raw dough containing yeast can expand in the stomach, and raw flour and eggs can carry bacteria. Many cookie recipes also include ingredients that are toxic to dogs, like chocolate, raisins, macadamia nuts, and the sweetener xylitol, which can be found in some baking products and peanut butters. A safer treat is a plain dog biscuit or a bite of plain cooked pumpkin. If your dog manages to snag dough or cookies, call your vet promptly, even if they seem fine.

The cookies will come out golden, the kitchen will smell wonderful, and Pretzel will get her own dog-friendly reward for supervising. In a kitchen like this, nobody goes without a treat for long.

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