[kibbles]

What type of treat do you guys feed your dog?

I used to have them on biscuits from Blue Buffalo and then over to Dogswell VeggieLife line (Chicken & Banana, Chicken & Apple and etc).

But recently I decided to try a something new for them. It's a Turkey and Sweet Potato treat from Puritydog. Thusfar, my dogs are crazy over it. They're doing tricks without any hesitation for these treats. Just the sound of the bag alone gets their ears perked up and tails wagging.

[platinumtlc]

Right now I'm trying to have a variety, so I have Canidae bit bites and looking to add some other different brands and flavors so I'm looking forward to the replies in this thread.

[zimandtakandgrrandmimi]

homemade jerky and homemade liver treat and the cartilage ends sawed off of raw chicken bones.

homemade liver treats

take a package of beef liver or a tub of chicken liver

if its chicken liver drain the fluid.

throw in a blender with some flour(i use potatoe flour) and a couple of eggs

blend well

grease a baking sheet and fill it up with the nasty mix

bake at about 250 until firm


let cool and cut up


you can also substitue other meats/offal

my dog just likes liver

[Donna5503]

I give him the good old-tried & true Milk-Bones ....the original ones, not the chewy or flavored ones.

I also give him Paul Newman Treats when my store has them -- sometimes they are out of them.

[nico8]

I use Evo dog biscuits. They're grain free and the first 6 ingredients are: turkey, chicken, turkey meal, chicken meal, potatoes, and herring meal. To me that sounds pretty good for a dog biscuit that that costs about $7.00 for a 1 month supply.

[reynosa_k9's]

All my crew get chicken feet for their treats. I'll sometimes give them gizzards or hearts but the feet are their fav.

Jihad
and the pound puppy crew.

[Kayto Potato]

Carrots are especially good for dogs. But make sure you chop them in to very small pieces because their digestive system is much more sensitive then ours. You can even mix it in there food.

[CorgiKarma]

I make my own treats that I sell on occasion in a local shop. I also make chicken/potato jerky. I do not add salt or sugar to my treats, which is my reason for making my own
I freeze carrots for a nice cool treat in the summer and fresh green beans are a good low fat treat also

I also make doggy icecream (there's a thread on here somewhere...)

[reynosa_k9's]

Originally Posted by Kayto Potato

Carrots are especially good for dogs. But make sure you chop them in to very small pieces because their digestive system is much more sensitive then ours. You can even mix it in there food.

Their digestive system is not more sensative than ours it's completely different. Dogs don't have the digestive enzymes necessary for digesting vegetables. For dogs to absorb any of the nutrients from veggies they need to be put through a blender and pretty much liquified. Haven't you ever noticed that when a dog eats vegetables they pretty much come out looking the same as they went in.
Not saying you can't feed veggies to your dogs. Just saying they get little to no nutritional value from them. BTW, my mothers rottie loves carrot sticks.

Jihad
and the pound puppy crew.

[Kathyy]

Treats? Sassy just was thrilled I gave her a 1" square bit of bread tonight. I make ground rice/pumpkin or banana/egg white cookies for her. Green tripe. Natural Balance roll. K9Magic roll. Dehydrated lamb/beef lung. Dried buffalo liver. Bits of banana. Cartilage from my cooked chicken legs. Melted cheese sandwichs. Charlee Bears. Left oer cooked chicken and cheese. Duck jerky/banana. I just dried ostrich tendons for them, big hit. Think that is all the variety for the past few months. Sad they are just as happy to get a bit of bread as all the special treats.

[tunisianswife]

I recently bought some duck jerky that they LOVE LOVE LOVE

in the summer I don't heat up the oven so I buy Mother Hubbard peanut butter dog bones; in the winter I make my own

raw beef riblet for the lhasa

a tsp of peanut butter

[nico8]

Kathyy can I come eat at your house??

[Ayanla]

Our Boston gets vomiting and diarrhea from every new food introduced, so we've been introducing treats slowly one at a time. I'd like variety in treats since I don't have variety in their base food, but we have to work up to the variety. There have been multiple treats that we've tried and abandoned due to one of the pups not liking them, or digestive issues (diarrhea that didn't stop, particularly noxious gas)

So far we've introduced Natural Balance Sweet Potato & Fish and Natural Balance Turkey, Cranberry, & Oatmeal bones as an alternative to Milk-bones, which Kira didn't tolerate and Odo didn't like. We also occasionally give Wellness Wellbites Chicken & Venison.

When we do training sessions, I use plain old Cheerios cut into halfs/quarters. The pups love them, they're small enough to be quickly swallowed, and they're not too horribly filling. They're full of grains, but I guess you can't have everything :P

[Michiyo-Fir]

I use Wellness Wellbites and Wellness PureRewards because they are semi-soft and easy to break into tiny pieces for training.

Also I use Natural Balance' rolls sometimes as a high value treat.

Most of the time I try to use kibble for training.

Oh yeah I also use fruits and veggies as well.

[luvntzus]

I use Old Mother Hubbard biscuits. It's the best I've found for the ingredients, price and availability. There are a lot of different varities like P-Nuttier, Liv R Crunch, Gimme A Kiss, Bacn N Cheez, etc. They make large and small biscuits; the small size is perfect for my Shih Tzu and Chihuahua.

[Equinox]

I feed Natural Balance food rolls (cheap, yummy, and huge!), hot dog slices, string cheese slices, ham slices, tidbits of raw meat (for good recall), Bil-Jac liver treats (did you know one of those fits perfectly into the top hole of the large red Kong?), and the occassional freeze drived liver treats (so darn expensive...).

[LadyD]

I use Evo dog treats. My dog really loves carrots too. He begs for them when I'm making salads

[Binkalette]

I actually got an idea from someone here on the forum (sorry I can't remember who it was!!) to use baby food to make treats! I went to look at it in the store, to see what all is in baby food.. and it is pretty much just what it says on the can.. For instance, Gerber's little jar of Chicken baby food: FINELY GROUND CHICKEN, WATER AND CORN STARCH, pretty good I think for pre-pureed chicken. I'm going to try it for making my own treats with meat.. I've only used things like pumpkin and bananas and such before.. Simply because I didn't know how to get my meat liquefied like that.. My food processor will only chop it up.

[platinumtlc]

I picked up some Wellness Pure Rewards and Wellness Bars today!