What kind of treats do you give your dog?

[vinjashira]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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!)

[lv4dogs]

I feed a wide variety of treats including the more common brands (pupperoni, beggin strips etc..) to decent brands (innova, nutro etc..) as well as people food. Of course it is all given in moderation.

I find for intense training cooked liver or chicken works well.

With a puppy that young though you don't want to vary the diet too much too fast (as you may have experienced with the diarrhea the other night). Just a few easy to digest treats, carrots, chicken, his regular kibble etc...

[binka_nugget]

For training, I usually use cut up pieces of Rollover. It's cheap, the ingredients are decent and a roll lasts a long time for my two. I occasionally use microwaved hot dogs pieces when we train around lots of distractions.

I sometimes make my own treats too. I usually throw in some liver, eggs and whatever else I have around. The dogs love it and I prefer to make my own treats as I know exactly what goes into them.