Would this be bad?

[Critters2]

I'm on this community committee to create dog parks in our county. We're going to have a booth at Bark in the Park tomorrow, where we'll sell cookbooks. We're supposed to bake some dog treats to sell, so people will see the kind of stuff in the book, and want to buy it. Well, because my kitchen is not air conditioned and therefore too hot to bake in, and because I don't really enjoy baking, and because I've been busy with work, and because I'm a lazy slug, and because I waste too much time on DU...I didn't get anything baked. So, I went to a dog bakery and bought two dozen dog cookies to take tomorrow.

Is this wrong of me?

Thanks for any ethical guidance!!

[FloridaJudy]

1. Only if they ask you for the recipe

I've tried feeding my dog those baked "dog cookies". She wasn't thrilled. She'd prefer the Paul Newman dog biscuits, or those dried lamb lungs they sell at Publix. Or bull penises.

[Critters2]

2. But is it okay to cheat by bringing the bakery ones,

rather than bake 'em myself? See, it's the ethical quandary that I'm thinkin' about. My beagle will eat anything that doesn't move...and a few things that do.

If they ask for the recipe, I'll say it's in the book. There are dozens of cookie-cutter biscuit recipes in the book that could pass for these.

[S n o w b a l l]

4. Yes, I'd say it was unethical....

if you told them they were in the book or passed them off as homemade.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. It's unethical to present them as homemade.

It's fine to sell them (maybe with a note saying "the heat did me in!)

[Critters2]

5. I'm going to bake after all

My book club has been postponed because this is a bad night for people, schedule-wise. And yes, my conscience was bothering me. So, I'm going to bake some beagle bagels.

I feel better already.

[FloridaJudy]

6. You brave soul

I don't mind baking, but without AC that's a labor of love.

As I said, my dog prefers the store-bought treats (the Newman's Own Organic ones) but there is one advantage to cooking for dogs: no dog is ever going to tell you how much better the dog treats were that his/her mother made!