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In general, Basko advocates a diet made up of equal parts:

* Grains (brown or white rice, oats, millet, quinoa or barley, since many dogs are sensitive to wheat and corn);

* Protein (meat, fish, egg, soy products, kelp, spirulina, blue-green algae and dairy products)

* Vegetables grown locally and in season (roots, leaves, legumes and a few herbs — basil, cilantro, seaweed, rosemary, pepper and dill).

White rice is the most commonly used grain. Larger dogs, generally healthy dogs and puppies get more meat while older dogs and those with allergies or kidney ailments do better with little or no meat (often just the broth from cooking meat bones in water). Vegetables are given mostly cooked (though a few raw) and chopped into small, bite-sized pieces; some peels can be left on for more crunch and fiber.

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Tasty treats to please your pup

The first recipe among those baker Trudi Mahelona chose for the "Paws Through Paradise" cookbook (Hawai'i Doggie Bakery, oversize paperback, $24.95) is the favorite of Doggie Bakery "founding dog" Ipo the Golden Retriever — a crispy biscuit made with Okinawan sweet potatoes, oats and whole wheat flour.

Mahelona says sweet potatoes are easy for dogs to digest and full of vitamins. You can substitute yellow or orange sweet potatoes or yams. As with all the recipes in the book, this mixture contains no salt or butter and Mahelona uses honey rather than white sugar; while both are digested as sugar, honey offers additional nutrients and moves through the system more slowly than refined white sugar.

These treats keep four weeks, unrefrigerated, in an air-tight container.

Ipo's Sweet Potato Sweethearts

* 1/2 cup Okinawan sweet potato, steamed, peeled and mashed

* 1 cup vegetable oil

* 1/4 cup honey

* 4 1/4 cups rolled oats

* 3 cups all-purpose flour

* 3 cups whole wheat flour

* Water

In a large mixing bowl, blend flours and oats. Incorporate the sweet potato, oil and honey into the mixture. Add water a little at a time until the mixture holds together and can be formed into a ball. Turn onto a floured surface and roll to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut into heart shapes with a cookie cutter. Bake at 375 degrees until golden brown and crunchy.

Paw-ty Cake

The doggie cake pictured on the cover of this section is a sort of banana bread that the Doggie Bakery sells frosted with cream cheese and decorated for birthday celebrations. This one is almost good enough to share with your dog!

* 2 cups whole wheat flour

* 2 cups all-purpose flour

* 4 eggs

* 1 apple banana

* 4 teaspoons baking powder

* 4 teaspoon baking soda

* 1 cup vegetable oil

* 1 cup water

* 1 cup Hawaiian honey

* 2 pound soft low-fat cream cheese

In a large mixing bowl, mash one ripe apple banana and mix in eggs, water, honey and vegetable oil. With a hand mixer, mix in dry ingredients and add water as necessary as to achieve cake batter consistency.

Grease a cake pan and pour batter in. Bake at 375 degrees for 30-35 minutes. Cool cake at least 2 hours.

Trim cake into a bone shape and smooth the low-fat cream cheese onto the cake with an inverted pastry spatula. If desired, use food coloring to tint cream cheese "frosting" and pipe dog's name onto cake.

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