What snacks/treats do you give your dogs? Would love to hear about what you have tried (liked and disliked) for your puppies!

Amber seem to like everything we give her (and we do not over indulge her - so don't worry :-))

It's good that she likes everything but for the first time in my life I spent 30mns in the doggy section at the supermarket!
All the treats/snacks look sooooo gooooood...I ended up buying just one things after all that time checking labels etc...!

Amber likes:
Cheese (cheddar medium), JWB mini snacks, 100% liver treat, Bakers choicechops, Pedigree Markies Puppy Treats, 2 Frankfurters mixed with her last meal :-p

I only ever use treats for training, and then it needs to be really interesting so usually dog treats are a no go -boooring! :p So I use canned hot dogs, a can of 8 usually takes me through a night at dog club with a couple of dogs. I chop them into little pieces only about 1 cm thick. All the dogs love them and they're really cheap too. 28 p for ASDA's own. :)

Yes, we are using the treats for training only

yes I have a hotdog Fiend here too!!! :D
LINE, I find the smellier the better for motivating my lot!! (drools and wags a plenty! ;) )
My favourite..but not to everyones taste is dried fish I get from Iceland ( the country not the frozen food store!) (and dried Liver has my Husky doing a n y t h i n g!!!)
A great low fat option are the little bisuits made only from dried fish skins no other ingredients.. they go down a treat too and dont pile the pounds on little porkers! ;)

Dried liver or liver cake are big favourites of my two. Also any type of sausage works a treat too (I tend to buy them from the 'reduced to clear' section of the supermarket and freeze them until they're needed ;) )

I use dried fish but it is made by good girl (yes they are cat treats) but the dogs love them and i don't see why the shouldn't have them as they are only dried fish. Not too expensive either

I only use treats for training Earl and I use cooked lung which is very handily provided by my dog trainer so I don't have to cook it :-)  At £1 for a large bag (which lasts a couple of training sessions) I consider it a real bargain.  Earl absolutely ADORES the lung.

Packaged treats for getting nails clipped and coat brushed are Celties and JWB Cracker or Mini Jacks. For chewing fun he gets carrots and pig ears or chicken and rice sticks. For training treats I usually make my own liver cake, tuna cake, dried liver, cheesy garlic chunks and liver scones. Recall and off lead heel-work usually moves up to meat or soemthing really yummy (chicken, turkey, duck, fish, sausage... I try to surprise him) He likes pate and cream cheese in his kong. (only little bits, it's mostly stuffed with kibble)

And then my husband just tries to share almost everything he eats with the dog when I'm not looking. ;-)

I didn't realise how few treats Millie gets until thinking about a reply for this, I think I have been concentrating so hard on sorting out her food this year that I could do without added complications of having to adjust her food to compensate for treats and its probably not a bad thing anyway, she doesn't do any training so doesn't 'earn' them activity-wise if you see what I mean.

Fortunately she doesn't like a lot of treats either, they all just become burying material, including Bonios etc., and fortunately she doesn't like rawhide/similar chews, excluding chewsticks so I do keep a jar of Hi-Life Special Care Munchy Rollers which she has one or two of each week (they're probably not much better than pound shop chewsticks but they're avaialble at Sainsburys so that's why she gets them).

I also have Schmackos in the cupboard to give her every time I leave the house.  They must be terribly high in sugar as I've never seen a dog refuse a schmacko, even those who refuse all dog food and dog treats.  But the reason I give them is because I remember a horror story on here once of someone's dog who regurgitated a chewstick whole and so Shmackos are the softest, thinnest treats I can find to give when leaving her unattendend.  And even then I break them up into pieces just to be sure :D

I'm afraid I'm not a great giver of treats unless there's a training purpose behind them. Some of my caution about treats is almost certainly a result of spending three years attempting to get some weight off an obese cocker spaniel whose previous owner had treated him over generously.

However, Nips isn't very food orientated anyway although he'd be the best behaved dog in the world if I was prepared to walk around with chopped up chunks of decomposed rabbit in my pocket! He's also a tremendous creature of habit who expects to eat one Bonio during the 10 o'clock news and will ignore it if given earlier. His other great fondness is for my OH's after-dinner orange peel but other than that he's not bothered with treats although he'll share an apple provided it's the right sort of apple. None of yer Golden Delicious for him!

When we had issues with him going back on his lead when he was 6 months old, I did use chunks of nice smelly cheese and the occasional frankfurter as part of the solution.

Hi Roz,

Your cocker fussy about the type of apples reminded my dearly departed Yorkie, Moxie.  I used to give Moxie carrots for a snack, generally the small ones.   She absolutely refused to eat the organic ones, but loved the nonorganic variety. 

Perhaps it's a terrier thing, this particularity about fruit and veg only it's Nips, my JRT who is fussy about precisely which apples he'll deign to share!

(I should have made it clearer that it was my previous dog, the also dearly departed Bob who was the overweight cocker. He'd eat anything which is almost certainly why he had a weight problem!)

Don't give mine much in the way of treats wither.

I will use a sachet of high life (full of sugar) meaty morsels as treats for recalls when on walks and the sachet (it is actually sold as a complete food) lasts ages, say a couple of weeks between three to five dogs.

They get one or two morsels (size of free flow mince), when they return, or during training sessions.  I do occasionally use better treats like liver cake left over sausages cut up etc, mainly for shows as bait.

If I get any frolic, I break each round piece into at least four, same with the round pedigree treats, and one smacko would be broken into many tiny pieces.

I rarely give treats in the house other than a hoof to gnaw if I am going to be out for a while, or their bones which they have any time they want them.  I might give the odd biscuit bone couple of times a week.  My friend always gives me some and they go in a tin and last ages.  I often give them the apple peelings or any vegetable matter when preparing food.

I do believe people give too may and too large treats.  I think the dogs aren't bothered about the size of the treat, so you can make one treat go a long way and treat them give or 6 times instead of once.

The dogs get all the household leftovers added to their food with their rations cut accordingly and I monitor condition at least weekly when grooming.

A hoof, now that's one I haven't heard of before!

they are the hoofs off cattle.  They do smell when being chewed though, so best kept for when you are out, ro when you take them out somewhere open

they last ages and are more portable and less messy than a bone which is why I use them to take to shows or when staying away.

Another good chew is a Bulls Pen*s, but they are very long.

Another good chew is a Bulls Pen*s, but they are very long.

Well never seen a cooked one I have to say  :D

Just wondering where you get the hooves from?

Do your dogs eat the whole hoof in one go, or do they wear them down gradually?

I've seen those bull thingys in the petshop - I think they must have been snipped to size though as the ones I've seen aren't anything to write home about :D Never bought any as they're very expensive for what you get I thought :D

I saw bulls things on ebay once and thought it must have been a windup - maybe I shall invest just to see the look on my sister's face when she visits.

>Another good chew is a Bulls Pen*s,<

Most dogs love bully sticks,you should have seen the look on my sons face when i got him to hand them out to the dogs.He had no idea what they were, after he'd finished inspecting and sniffing them,i told him your holding a bulls willy,he flinged it that fast and far he nearly broke the window,LOL

As for the hooves,they are very hard so watch the aggressive chewers,as teeth breakages can happen with them.Does anyone elses dog go nuts for the horse hoof clippings found around stables?They are a great chew if you can get em' :)