Hey everyone. I've been retraining my westie this past week and I've been giving him pieces of ham for treats. It doesn't seem to be doing anything great for his stomach (he left me a nice surprise this morning!:() Does anyone have any suggestions for treats that would be kind for my pocket and his little tummy?:)

My puppy adores chicken, look in the reduced section at supermarkets and freeze it works out alot cheaper, oh and edam cheese from asda's big block very cheap cut into tiny pieces i've never had a dickie tummy with them

Mine have chunks of carrot and slices or cucumber.  They love it.  In fact anytime I chop vegetables they are there with their pleading eyes.  Stops them being fat as well.

I used ham as the top value treat for our Gold KC training and my boy can now hear a packet being opened from a 1000 yards!!  I found it was a bit 'wet' to use too often and it wasn't easy to put in my pocket either.

The most effective thing for me was to provide a box of small treats of different varieties - that way they all smelled good, and my boy didn't know what to expect next.

Home made liver/tuna cake is great (lots of recipes on CD lately), I also used any left over cooked meat but would leave it to air dry overnight to stop it being too soggy, salami sausage stuff from Pets at Home (probably not very healthy in big quantities but he loves it and it's quite strong smelling too), a few plainish mixer biscuits, cheese (again air dried for easier handling and more chewy), and a variety of commercial treats (choose ones soft enough to cut into smaller pieces).

I needed meaty type treats for actual in class training but also use veg at home for rewards.  Mine both love carrot but not quite enough to do the serious exercises for!!

Most of the commercially available training treats are quite rich so do be careful about quantities, keep them trimmed to tiny size.  My boy is probably 3 times the size of your Westie and I used pea size treats - it just made him work harder for the bonus ones when I gave a few at a time :)  Don't forget to adjust his meal quantities to compensate and if you train before feeding you'll get away with lower value treats :) HTH

My boys go crazy for cheese, but if that's too much for the stomach i like to make my own treats which are also highly desirable in my house with the dogs.
Is tripe too much for his stomach as you can buy tripe sticks and cut them up?

Thanks to everyone for their advice!!!:):):)

I'll try him on each one for a few days to see how his little tummy handles it and which ones he likes!!!!

tripe chews! sure stinks to high heaven but they are so happy to get them...:-)