Animal cruelty??

So, this year, I decided that I would make homemade dog treats for all of the dog lovers in my life for Christmas. (I know-- there goes the surprise!)

There's a catch.

A wonderful, adorable, cute dalmatian lives at my apartment. Her name is Chloe, and she is fabulous! Anytime that I am in the kitchen, preparing anything from steak salad to pumpkin bars to cereal, she is there, just hoping that I will drop something.

It is her ever-presence that makes me pause when I consider making MANY batches of dog treats in the coming month. Is it wrong and/or excessively cruel to make all of those delicious-smelling treats when she is in the apartment? It's true that she will reap the benefits of my efforts, but I had to consider this moral dilemma....

What do you think?