This recipe reminds me of my Sage Bison Burgers with Balsamic Bacon Apple Chutney I made back in the day. Apple and meat goes together so well. It’s just a fact.
This puppy of mine, Jackson, has been absolutely wonderful. If you’ve seen my instagram lately, you know I’m absolutely obsessed with him. Sorryimnotsorry. When trying to decide his name, I turned to instagram and asked everyone what they thought he should be named. There were over 2,000 comments, some which were awesome ones. But we ended up deciding on our own, surprisingly. We decided to go with Jackson because the boyfriend’s favorite baseball player is Bo Jackson and then we could also call him Jack Bauer (which is my last name and the star of 24 if you’ve ever watched that show). I’ve never watched it, but everyone thinks they’re hilarious when they ask if I’m related to Jack Bauer, so I’ll entertain them with this one.
Jackson has been awesome. He sleeps in his crate, only cries to go to the bathroom at night, and is starting to get this whole peeing outside thing down. The only thing we are starting to go through now is the teething process. We have some great things for him to chew on, but damn are his teeth sharp. I fed him an apple slice yesterday to hopefully help him get used to being more gentle with fingers…fail. He pierced the skin. Blood and all. So my question to you dog parents (or children parents. they bite stuff, don’t they?) do you do anything to keep them from biting everything? I heard put Bengay on the things you don’t want to bite…that seems a bit unhealthy for the dog to lick though? Am I right or am I right? And I’m not really into constantly scolding him for biting at things. Not my thing. I’m more into the kissing him constantly kind of things. Advice please. Only good advice, though. Kgreatthanks.
It’s crazy how fast he’s growing up. It’s freaking me out. Is this how parents feel when their kids grow up? I don’t like it. He used to just cuddle up in my arms and want to love me constantly. Now he just wants to bite and bark at inantimate constantly. Oh, and eat goose poop. He’s such into that. I told my boyfriend I think he’s becoming a goth teenager. Just a rebel without a cause. As soon as his ears popped up, the drama set in. But I can take it, I’m a mom now. I saw what my mother went through with me as her demon spawn…I can take it with an animal that can’t use actually words. Like the swear words I liked to use. Now look at how great he is!!
Apple and Arugula Bison Burgers
- Yield: 4-5 1x
Ingredients
- homemade sweet potato fries (optional)
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil or butter
- 1 large yellow onion, thinly sliced
- salt, to taste
- 1 pound ground bison (or other ground meat such as beef, turkey or chicken)
- 1 eggs
- 1 small green apple, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped arugula + extra for garnishing burgers
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon coarse sea salt
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- extra coconut oil or butter, to coat pan
- Against the Grain gluten & grain free rolls or my breakfast biscuits
Instructions
- Make sweet potato fries and biscuits, if preparing with your meal.
- In a medium saute pan, add coconut oil along with onion and a bit of salt. Coat in oil and let cook for 15-25 minutes, stirring occasionally until onions are soft and brown.
- When onions are almost done cooking, place beef, egg, apple, arugula, garlic cloves, salt and pepper, and garlic powder in a bowl and mix well to combine.
- Form 4-5 patties, pressing a thumb into the middle to keep the burgers from puffing up.
- Heat a large sauté pan over medium heat. Add a bit of coconut oil or butter to grease the pan. Then add patties, making sure not to crowd the pan. Cook on both sides for 5-6 minutes or until patties are cooked to preference.
- Make patties with half of a biscuit, arugula, burger patty and onions.
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Reading through the comments and I absolutely agree with them all! What you can also do is baby gate off areas that you don’t want him to go near. Positive reinforcement is always good, so once you replace the bad item he’s chewing with the good item (anything else), then also give him a little treat once he’s settled into chewing on the good thing. Don’t give him a treat right away, otherwise you’ll create a behavior “I’ll chew on the bad thing, then on the good thing so I get a treat”. Make sure it’s long enough that his little puppy brain forgets he was even chewing on the bad thing!
Also, this may have been one of your funniest posts yet. Love it!
Definitely with everyone else on the kong, careful with rope toys (if they shred they them can get bound up intestinal).. also BEST ADVICE play with their feet alot, when they get bigger you will be able to clip their toenails no problem, my dog actually sits and lifts a paw and lets me clip and he’s 110 lbs.
Unfortunately some dog LOVE to chew, it will get better once he looses those puppy teeth. 🙂
Absolutely recommend the Bitter Apple spray too! My Frenchie pup is still gated off in the utility room when I can’t directly supervise her, but she I guess got bored one day and ATE THE WALL. I repaired it and sprayed the Bitter Apple on it…she went right back to the wall she likes to chew and took one taste and shook her head and backed off…hasn’t nibbled it since! Good luck!
I agree with what other people are saying about replacing whatever he is not supposed to be chewing with something he can chew. Bitter apple spray is also a great suggestion. In this stage though, a lot of it is honestly training yourself as much as you are training the dog. Remembering to keep things out of reach (as much as possible). It’s so easy to slip your shoes off at the door like you normally do and then before you know it, they’re all chewed up.
Personalities vary and what works with someone elses dog might not have any effect on yours. My parents have several dogs and some have to be trained differently because they have a different personality.
I am by no means a dog behavior expert, so take this all with a grain of salt, but another thing I’ve heard is to try ignoring them. (Doesn’t work if they’re chewing up your stuff or peeing on the carpet). But if he’s nipping at you or jumping all over you, and you want him to stop, just ignore him and walk away. It’s kind of like saying, “I don’t like that, and I’m not going to give you attention for bad behavior.” Above all else, be consistent.
Erin! you got it! ignoring is an awesome training method. If they aren’t getting the attention (whether good or bad) they’ll go do something else.
This looks amzing! I love bison 🙂
I agree with the comments. We also taught our pup “Soft Bite” so when he played, he never would actually bite you, just kinda gum you. For the most part we never let him bite or chew, but just wanted him to learn that IF there was ever a hand in/near his mouth, it wasn’t acceptable for him to actually bite it.
Also, where did you get your little Frenchie?!? What a cutie! I want one so bad but it’s hard to find good breeders. I’m in KC so Denver isn’t too bad of a jaunt… 🙂
I totally agree with the yelping 🙂 When he nips you just yelp then say “no”. Just one firm no. I neeeever yell at my dogs and they listen to me very well now that they are grown ups (my younger one turned 5 yesterday and I kind of can’t handle it). I just say one firm command and they listen, which is impressive because other than that I have a someone relaxed attitude with them (they are allowed on the furniture, I let them climb on me-despite being 65 lbs, ext).
Also, when you catch him chewing something bad just say “no” firmly, and when he is chewing something good praise the heck out of him. I like to praise good behaviors much better than I like to reprimand.
And while teething, frozen stuff is the best. Frozen baby carrots are really good-sooth his little mouth. 🙂
I agree with the commenter named Erin about ignoring them when they’re nipping at you or jumping on you. It worked when we were training our dog not to bite us when we were playing with him. Whenever he nipped at us, we would just get up, go in another room and shut the door behind us, and stay there for 20-30 seconds. The thinking behind it is that dogs don’t like being left alone and if you “punish” them by ignoring them for a brief time, they will eventually learn not to do the behavior that results in you ignoring them. Also, apparently when they’re puppies, if one pup plays too rough with its sibling, the sibling will turn its back on him, signaling that he’s had enough, and that helps teach the dogs how to play nice. I don’t remember exactly where I read that but I’m sure there are plenty of websites online that talk more about it. It did take a few weeks for our dog to finally get the message (he was older when we got him though so maybe a younger pup will catch on faster), but we haven’t had problems with him for months now.
I love bison burgers! I’ve never had them with apple though – sounds good 🙂
I’ll just suggest a book on dog parenting for you. I’ve read a lot of them and she is easy to follow and balanced in her approach in my opinion (funny too but that’s just a perk).
It’s Me or The Dog by Victoria Stilwell.
Happy reading.