the dog treat thread

[.sarah]

I don't feed commercial treats anymore unless if someone gets them for my dogs as a gift or if I take them to the pet store and the clerks want to give them one. I feed home-baked treats or treats from a bakery. We don't have an actual dog bakery in town, but there is a small pet store that bakes some to sell. They are really pricey though, so I usually just make my own. I also have a dehydrater to make dried meat and organ treats.

[binka_nugget]

I don't often try out new treats on them.. mainly because we've already tried the good ones at the local store, and all the ones we haven't tried have yucky ingredients. I just found a PetsMart in a nearby city though so I'll be picking up loads next week for Kai's birthday presents. =D

Kai's favorites are Marrowbones and freeze dried liver (Kaedyn doesn't have a favorite.. he loves them all!) Marrowbones have yucky ingredients but I still use them because he goes NUTS for them! I mainly use them for recall training.. since I want him to have great experiences with the "come" command. I also use little bits of cheese and rollover to agility training. The cheese makes him give that extra effort (the difference in speed is incredible!) but I mix it with rollover because it's cheap, less fattening, and he never knows when he gets good ol' rollover, or the jackpot =P

My/their least favorites are all the ones with yucky ingredients.. Eukanuba, Purina, etc. They just seem to know somehow!

[IRescue452]

Junk food is junk food so I'm usually not concerned about giving them as treats. Sometimes when I look at a label I'll decide I just don't want to buy something like that, but more often than not processed treats seem better than the kibble labels-I figure because the treats are a few dollars a pound so they better be good.
Today Max and Autumn got a healthy treat, a bag of woofy pop microwave popcorn for dogs. I sat there and fed them as if I was feeding pigeons. It seems to have calmed Max's stomach- she's been stinking up the house all day.