I have posted on here with this topic before - the owner of this condition being my 7 mth old JSI.  As suggested I "starved" for 24 hours, and it cleared up.

The problem I have is that, when he rigidly sticks to his dry food and dry biscuit treats, he's fine, but I am about to start recall training and have loads of not-so-dry treats in ready.  I am almost certain that these are going to be a no-go, as I am pretty sure they will make him squitty again.

Does he just have a sensitive tum?

Any suggestions for bland treats that can make him enthusiastic enough to succeed at recall?

Is there anything "natural" I can feed him that may help with the squits?

Thanks for help (as usual)

Cheers

Have you tried cooked (baked) liver? My girl has a very sensitive tummy, she's food intolerant to almost anything but this doesn't affect her at all and will do absolutely anything for a morsel of liver :)
The only dried treats Maddie can have is her food so, as you can imagine, training held no interest for her at all. That was until I discovered she could have liver!
HTH

Dee

Oooh, I've ordered 4 bags of that (I also have another JSI) so I'll give it a try.  I was also gonna take a handful of Cheerios :)

Ordered 4 bags of what??

cooked liver treats.....

Oh ok :o I just assumed everyone makes the liver treats themselves,DUH! Hope your boy does well on them :)

Take it easy with the liver,too much makes the majority of dogs very,very loose

I only give it her raw once a week and cooked on sundays for training, but only one sliver at a time :) so far so good.  Saying that she hasn't had any for two weeks cos she not well at the moment but thats another story :(
Like Frodo said, be careful and go easy on the treat :)

Dee

LOL - no, some of us just don't have the inclination - it's all I can manage to cook the OH's dinner :)

I know I have to be "sparing" with the liver (it's just freeze dried raw liver) - can you suggest anything else that would be attractive, but not cause a squitty bum Frodo?

Thanks :)

Baked chicken breast or steak always goes down well,also baked beef or lamb heart. But you gotta make all these yaself ;) :p
It's really easy just bung them in the oven on around 180 until suffiently cooked and cut them up into bite size pieces. I dont give any commercial treats as my dogs wont eat any of them..sigh...

I hate cooking for the OH,but i enjoy cooking for the dogs :o

Thanks Frodo - that's easy - even I can just bung something in the oven :) (well, just about!) :D

I have the same problem with 2 out 3 of my dogs. I use Cheese Strings for agility training as they can stay in the packet and you just pull out as much as you need without it crumbling or getting sweaty. Before I discovered that cheese is ok I used to take out an amount of his dry evening meal and use that so he wasn't having any extras. The other thing that usually works is liver cake, do a search on here for the recipe or PM me, but the amount of liver in it makes it suitable for most senstive dogs and yet it still smells of it. ;-)

HTH

I don't recall the brand name, but my supermarkets carry treats that come in small tubes.  There are several types for cats and dogs.   They are freeze dried fish or meat.  

Stacey

Cool - what's the name of your supermarket ?  :)

i dont know what you feed at present but my dog suffered this for months and i bought naturediet worked a treat no more squits maybe worth a try but obviously dont just do a straight change over from the food you feed gradually do it or find out from the vet what it is via a blood test i found out that my dog has colitis which is the reason he was that way

Thanks Trackie30 I appreciate it :)