What kind of treats do you feed your dog? Do you feed them store bought treats, or only treats that you make yourself? What is your favorite kind/brand of treat, and why?
What is your LEAST favorite brand/kind of dog treat? Why? What treats would you never feed to your dogs?
Just curious to see everyone’s idea of what treats are okay and which are poor quality!
I feed my dogs a rotation of Wellness treats, baby carrots, cut up string cheese, Canidae biscuits, and other natural treats.
My mom, on the other hand, feeds her dogs milkbones, pupperoni, beggin’ strips, and all sorts of wal-mart junk. I’m trying to prove to her that this sort of overprocessed stuff isn’t good for her dogs, but she’s never had any problems, so she refuses to switch!
11 Responses
2008 Sep 22
Most favorite are raw baby carrots and blueberries. for store bought anything by Old Mother Hubbard! I also like Zoots treats.
Least favorite anything for a grocery store or WalMart or any other big chain store. Just garbage for your dog!
2008 Sep 24
Hi!!
I feed Natural Balance rolls, and VEGGIE LIFE Treats - the sweet potato ones enriched with glucosamine and chondroiton.
Natural Balance biscuits, Wellness treats, Innova biscuits also.
I do NOT like ANYTHING Iams, Eukanuba, Pedigree, Beggin Strips, Snausages, milk bones, etc. Anything not high quality.
2008 Sep 26
I prefer Zuke’s and Natural Balance roll-over cut into small pieces for training treats. I feed beef tendons, bully sticks, and raw bones for larger treats. I will not feed cheap commercial treats (like alpo treats or milk bones) mostly because I think they have NO nutritional value.
I also occasionally give peanut butter (natural) or low fat yogurt frozen in a kong.
2008 Sep 28
my dog liked beacon strips the most, but she ate them all. she recently died
2008 Sep 29
We recently tried Wet Noses Dog Treats. All of my dogs love them and they are all natural. They were a Christmas present from my sister so I’m not sure if she bought them at the store or on-line. But they are definitely a great treat we have a dog who has never eaten a treat in the 3 yrs since we adopted him and he actually ate these!
I have never bought a treat, for my dogs, that I don’t like.
2008 Oct 02
I feed a primarily raw diet. So… treats/training aids are any of a number of high quality kibbles (Solid Gold, Innova, Orijen, Wellness etc…). For dog shows … they get what I consider “junk food”.. hotdogs, wiggly jiggly meat (buddig wafer meat)… and sometimes string cheese or cooked liver.
I detest Beggin Strips and those manufactured things that look like roundsteak bones (Bonez?). Poor quality ingredients, fake colors, fake tastes, fake smells, preservatives galore… YUCK!!!
2008 Oct 02
My guys don’t get anything with wheat or other fillers in it because of allergies. Also, anything with propylene glycol in it. It’s in a lot of foods and cosmetic and in most dog treats like Beggin Strips, etc. It’s also in anti freeze. I just won’t take the chance of poisoning my dogs.
My dogs usually get dehydrated yams, dried banana chips, and dried cranberries for treats. Occasionally they also get mini marshmallows as a special treat. And they get baby carrots and string cheese once in a while.
2008 Oct 03
C.E.T. chews, the dogs love them, they don’t swell and expand like rawhide when swallowed, and they have an enzyme in them that helps prevent tartar build up on the dogs’ teeth.
They aren’t loaded with salt, fat, suger, artificial preservatives, and they don’t have lots of calories - they’re a safe, satisfying treat/chew for my dogs.
For obedience and crate training, I use a tiny bit of low fat liverwurst - my dogs go right in their crates when I say “beddy’byes” , sit and wait for their liverwurst treat - it’s how I crate train all my dogs (I foster too)- works great.
I would NEVER feed my dogs any stuffed, cheesed, fake liver, salt laden fake bacon, etc.
that’s all the junk food equivalent of human chips for dogs.
They do like Purina Variety Snaps for some reason - mostly corn meal and dirt cheap anywhere, but not too bad, however I break a small one into 4 tiny bits, and that’s all they get. They’re good for travel since they’re dry and plain, but I don’t use them much.
2008 Oct 05
My dogs like puppy biscuits (Iams), but I use them more as a treat to stuff into their kong bones than regular treats. For training, I use the little kong stuffing treats, but my dogs don’t seem to go for them, so they are a few and fare between treat. We use freeze dried liver as high value treat. They like chewing on raw carrots but only my newfie will eat them. My keeshond/shiba LOVES fruit (especialy cantalope). Of course the like peanut butter, but as they can be lazy dogs, they don’t get it that often because it is very fatty. They love cheese cubes and anything that comes from the fridge.
I had someone reccomend cutting up hot dogs, sprinkling them with garlic powder (lightly) and microwaving them to the brittle point and breaking them up for training treats. Has anyone heard of this? I was under the impression that A.) hot dogs have a bunch of junk in them, I rarely eat them B.) that they are very salty, there fore not that good for the dogs and C.) that dogs shouldn’t really have harglic as it had a similar effect to onions. There reasoning behind doing these for treats was that the dog would smell it and be more likely to follow their nose into what ever you were trying to train them to do.
2008 Oct 07
When my parents drive me over to a pet supply store, I normally get Wellness biscuits because they’re full of all-natural things, plus they’re healthy and Snowball loves them!
I always steer veeery clear of Iams, Eukanuba, Purina, etc…all that stuff is full of chemicals, byproducts, preservatives, artificial flavorings, i.e. pure crap.
2008 Oct 09
Greenies!!!
My dog Punky loves them!