Halloween isn't just for people to go trick-or-treating and to attend fun costume parties. Dogs love to get treats, too. So don't leave your dog - or the dogs of your neighbors - out of this fun time. Bake up some goodies with these recipes below to pass out to furry guests that arrive on your doorstep!

Basic Dog Treat Recipe

Ingredients:

4 cup whole wheat flour

7 cup unbleached flour

2 cup cornmeal

1 cup skim milk powder

2 tablespoon (or 2 package) dry yeast

7 cups lukewarm beef (or other meat) or chicken broth

6 egg whites in a bowl (give the dogs the egg yolks mixed in with their food as a treat!)

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. In a large bowl, mix together the wheat flour, unbleached flour, cornmeal and milk powder. In a small pan, heat up your broth so that it is lukewarm. Then dissolve the yeast in the warm broth. This is the basic ingredient dogs like, so make it nice and rich. Next, after the brothy yeast sets for roughly 10 minutes, stir in flour / cornmeal / milk powder mixture. Roll out dough about 1/4" thick: dog treat thick. Using homemade or store bought cookie cutters, cut out your dog biscuit treats, shaped from dough. Using the egg whites and a pastry brush, brush your homemade treats with the egg whites. Place treats on greased baking sheets and bake for approx. 45 min. Allow them to cool and harden overnight. Makes about 120 medium-sized treats.

Variations: add some food coloring (orange for Halloween) and a little peanut butter to a portion of the dough. Place safe liver treat pieces (see next recipe) or dog jerky pieces that you can buy at a local store in the pet food aisle atop some treats, making pumpkin faces, for example.

Little Liver Treats for Dogs

2 pound raw liver

2 egg

2 cup flour

1 cup corn meal

1/2 teaspoon oregano

1/2 teaspoon brewers yeast

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Blend liver into a paste. Then add in other ingredients and make one large thin cookie with the mixture or smaller cookie cutter shapes out of the dough. Bake for 30 minutes, long if you'd like them to be crisper. Then break large cookie up into smaller pieces.

More Ideas

If trick or treat time rolls around, and you simply have had no time to prepare, bake or anything else, you can always make tiny treat packages for dogs, placing a small amount of dog food in baggies to distribute to furry guests.

You could also make a costume for your dog out of fabric you have around your home and dog clothes so that your best buddy and you are festive for the fun occasion. Then go around for treats from your neighbors, and come back to share some with your g