German ice cream shops cater to canines with liverwurst concoction
What is hot with dogs as the temperatures rise? They're lapping up liverwurst ice cream.
The flavour is the most popular this summer among canines at the ice cream shops owned by Leonardo Caprarese in and around the northern German city of Bremen.
Caprarese has offered ice cream that he specially concocted for dogs since 2009, including beef and chicken flavours.
He said he noticed that many of his customers bought ice cream for themselves and then placed an order for their dogs. Worried that the sugar in the ice cream was not healthy for the pets, he developed a sugar-free version to cater to the canine class in the dog-loving nation.
It contains meat, carrots, milk and water. Caprarese said his four-legged customers have been enthused.
"Most of them gobble it in one go," Caprarese said, "but there are also some that lick it up."
The trend has spread to other ice cream establishments as well, including in other parts of Germany, such as Marco Vazzola's shops in Birkenfeld in the south-western state of Rhineland-Palatinate.(dpa)
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