A Holiday Gift from BSM: Pet-Safe Recipes to Make Spirits Bright

The holidays are a time for family, fun, and delicious treats—and of course, that extends to our furry family members. While purchasing festive pet treats from the store or feeding table scraps might be tempting, why not whip up something homemade instead? Most of us are already baking holiday cookies for friends and family.

Although there are numerous recipes available online, it can be difficult to find options that are delicious, nutritious, and safe for your pet. That’s where BSM Partners comes in. We’re here to help pet parents navigate the season with easy, healthy, and pet-approved treat recipes, so you can feel good about your four-legged family members joining in the holiday cheer.

We hope you and your companions enjoy these festive treat recipes. If you have a homemade pet treat recipe that your furry family member craves, we would love to see it! Share your favorite holiday treat recipes with us by emailing holidaytreats@bsmpartners.netfor a chance to be featured in our upcoming BSM Partners’ 2025 Holiday Pet Treat Cookbook!

Let’s make this holiday season paws-itively delicious!

Note: By sharing your holiday pet treat recipes, you are giving BSM Partners permission to include them in later publications. You will be credited and recognized accordingly for your recipe.

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About the Authors

Ada-Miette Thomas is a senior analyst at BSM Partners. She received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in food science with an emphasis on nutrition. Ada-Miette conducted research with a focus on human nutrition and studied the effects of carbohydrate sources on markers of Metabolic Syndrome in adults.

Émilie Mesnier's passion for pets ignited during a 2007 internship in palatability research and has propelled her ever since. A French-trained food scientist, she now blends two decades of global know-how—nutrition, marketing, sustainability, animal welfare and international growth—into one goal: better foods and lives for animals. A lifelong learner who has absorbed insights from 80-plus business books on strategy and continuous improvement, Émilie turns ideas into action every day. After 16 years in the US and running a small farm animal rescue sanctuary in Utah, Emilie moved children, husband and two senior pets back to France in early 2025 to bring BSM Partners’ full suite of consulting services closer to clients across the European market.

Renee Streeter is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Nutrition). She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Animal Science from Cornell University and served as a farm animal nutritionist for a major feed company before attending veterinary school at Ross University. Her clinical rotations were done at Cornell University’s college of veterinary medicine, where she stayed on to do her Clinical Nutrition residency. While working in a large general practice and doing clinical nutrition consultation, Dr. Streeter also founded her own veterinary nutrition consulting company and currently helps industry clients through her position as the Nutrition Practice Principal at BSM Partners.

Dr. Sydney McCauley is a Board-Certified Companion Animal Nutritionist and earned both her bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at Virginia Tech in Animal and Poultry Sciences. McCauley’s research was in nutritional physiology with a focus on understanding the effects of low birth weight on glucose, fatty acid, carbohydrate, and amino acid metabolism in skeletal muscle and overall metabolic homeostasis during neonatal development.