The ultimate dog biscuit

Bobtail's brand new "Iced Biscuits" (image courtesy of Bobtail South Africa)

Everyone who reads this blog knows that I have two distinct interests. Food and wine (that counts as one), and dogs. My posts, therefore, are either food and wine related (these make up the majority of my blog content), or dog related, in some way or another. Today's post is a little different - it's about food AND dogs. In fact, it's about food for dogs that looks good enough to eat yourself. Allow me to be less cryptic. I was recently approached by Bobtail, a leading South African dog food brand, to sample their brand new range of doggie treats, Iced Biscuits. My immediate thought when seeing the promotional images was that these biscuits are like zoo biscuits for dogs - how could I ever deny my canine pack the pleasure of a zoo biscuit? Within the wag of a tail, the courier dropped off a Bobtail goodie bag for our six dogs to enjoy.

The Bobtail goodie bag

The "dog friendly" stamp of approval on these handmade treats!

I was delighted to find that Bobtail had given us two packs of these new biscuits to try (treats don't go very far when you're dealing with six hungry dogs), as well as a classy leather collar. Bonny, our 10 year old German Shepherd, pulled rank on the pack and hastily claimed this Ferrari-red collar as her own. Thankfully, I had lots of delicious iced biscuits on hand to appease the rest of them! These new biscuits are peanut-butter flavoured, which means they're guaranteed to be delicious for dogs of any breed (if our hodgepodge pack is anything to go by). The hard icing, which is beautifully decorated with little bones and paw shapes, looks just like milk and white chocolate - but isn't! As you probably know, chocolate is poisonous and dangerous for dogs, but Bobtail have managed to create an "iced" topping that's 100% safe for canine enjoyment (non-lauric, non-sucrose). These handmade biscuits include natural, nutritious ingredients such as wheat flour, peanut butter and plant fats, ensuring that Fido doesn't pack on the pounds when he's enjoying his new favourite treat!

Such beautiful patterns and a generous iced topping on each biscuit

Lining up for official taste testing purposes

The moment of truth arrived when I opened the biscuit box. These biscuits really do look delicious, so I couldn't resist doing a "taste test" myself. The icing is actually really delicious, and the biscuit itself did have a peanut butter flavour. By this stage, our six were lined up and ready to try them out. Usually when we dish out treats, they all gobble them down before even tasting them - the old "swallow now, chew later" technique. This time, our dogs did something I've never seen before. They each took their iced biscuit and went off to find "the perfect spot", where they then slowly ate their way through this new treat - almost as though they were savouring them! The minute they were finished, and had licked up every crumb, they were back begging for more. A true sign of a winning treat!

Toby loving his biscuit

Milo enjoying his new treat in a shady spot

There are 16 biscuits in a pack, and the packs retail for between R19.99 and R22.99 at all major stores, such as Pick 'n Pay, Checkers, Spar and Makro. Whilst a whole biscuit was provided per dog, for official tasting and photography purposes, they're delicious enough to be given as halves or even quarters - and that makes them last longer, too. I think they're the perfect Christmas gift for any four-legged friend, and are just too cute to resist - our six will definitely be finding a few of these in their festive stockings this month!