What kind of treats do you give your dog?

**Jon83** · 02-02-2006, 10:22 AM

I'm just wondering what else I can give her..

She gets the Science diet treats (that we split in small pieces) for her potty training and it's been going extremely well actually. She doesnt like them as much now tho..

For the crate training we usually give her scooby treats since it's not that often that we have to tell her to go to her crate. It works very well already..

We use Nutro Natural Choice Lamb & Rice for large breed puppy for her meals (as requested by the breeder).

The problem is that we started to teach her to sit, lie down, stay, come, etc.. and it requires a lot of treats.. so I decided to use another type of food, kibbles by kibble instead of treats. The food that I use was given to us when we purshased a cage. It's called vetdiet for large breed puppy.

Yesterday evening, we must of gave her about 10-20 kibbles (one at the time) and she had diarehha all night, I had to bring her outside 5-6 times where usually she can go all night without even going once.. When I picked her up to bring her outside.. her tummy was very hot!

So i'm wondering.. What kind of treat can I give my 10 weeks puppy.. I heard baby carrots were good. What else?

Thanks!

**Pam** · 02-02-2006, 10:30 AM

I often give baby carrots for treats. My dogs also love apple slices. They seem more interested in these kinds of treats rather than regular biscuits although they will eat those too. Ripley is a little odd, in that sometimes he will not eat a regular dog biscuit right away. Instead he will carry it all over the house and eat it maybe 2 hrs. later. Bella watches him out of the corner of her eye and will grab is up when he is not looking.

**vinjashira** · 02-02-2006, 11:44 AM

hi and welcome to PetTalk

Sasha is so cute. Is she a Jack Russell? I have a Jack Russell, Snowy, as you can see on my signature and avatar.

I use liver as treats and it works like a charm

they used to provide liver as well at our training club but now they have switched to Frolic

**anna_66** · 02-02-2006, 11:53 AM

First let me say what an adorable little pup

You've gotten some good advice and these are some of the same things I give my dogs.

Our trainer also used small pieces of cooked chicken, small slices of microwave hot dogs or any other meat you may be cooking the day of training (all in moderation of course). Make the bites as small as you possibly can, a little goes a long way!

Good luck and hope to see more of your little girl

**luvofallhorses** · 02-02-2006, 12:38 PM

first of all welcome to pet talk!

your pup is cute!

we give our dogs canine carryouts, rawhides, pig ears, scooby snacks, sometimes milkbones, and just regular dog biscuits..but they don't get those all at once..

they get dog cookies every night since that's what they love.

spoiled? oh yeah!!

**renfest** · 02-02-2006, 01:03 PM

I give merilyn all natural treats for training and he is eating Nutro ans seems to be fine wirth it .. I also give him greenies once or twice a week that is all natural and he does not have that nasty dog breath

rennie

**Jon83** · 02-02-2006, 01:07 PM

Thx everyone for welcoming me to this board!

I will try baby carrots and I just came back from the petshop with some tiny liver treats. I'll see how that goes.

vinjashira: Thanks a lot, she is very cute indeed! It's an American Bulldog, not a Jack Russel

Here is another picture of her taking over Tango's cage, one of our 2 cats.

**Ravette** · 02-02-2006, 01:55 PM

I make my own treats for training because I have a golden retriever that is a bit fat. So I make some nice healthy treats for him and for the pitbull mix I use some treats with higher protien because she is real hard to keep weight on.

I also give milk bones , rawhide chews ect.

heh we made jerky this last summer and we ahh kinda burnt the crap out of it so we used those for a month or so as treats! Doggies LOVED them!

**Kfamr** · 02-02-2006, 02:49 PM

Oh my, Jon! She is just precious. I want to kiss that cute little nose. Welcome to Pet Talk!

I feed my 3 dogs Nutro's NC Lamb & Rice as well.
They get a range of treats in moderation - but I use pieces of kibble for training with food. For an extra good training treat, to get them REALLY interested - I break up soft treats into small pieces, such as Pupperoni's or Beggin' Strips. You're able to get them into very small pieces so one whole treat goes a long way.

My youngest trains with a tennis ball. If she does something right, she gets to fetch the ball or just hold it. (It is the center of her world, besides me!)