I've got a slight problem in that my Rio is getting bored with her treats -and I use treats a lot as we clicker train, and we also use it a shows. I don't use boring dog treats, ever, she wouldn't even be interested in that. We normally train with hot dogs or sausages, sometimes cheese, and at shows we have used the dried (as in rock hard) liver you can buy loose at shows. She has now become bored with it all, to the extent of even spitting it out. I need new interesting treats. I know point number one will have to be to bite the bullet and cook some proper liver despite the stink (as a vegetarian it bothers me a lot!), but I wondered if anyone had other suggestions as chances are eventually she'll get bored with liver as well. What can I use as really REALLY nice treats that she will want to work for? I'm all out of ideas.

Peperamis work for mine. (You can also get dog equivalents.) Have had the little snack size ones, but think the full size are better so you can wiggle them too LOL. I find ham works well on that basis too.

Always carry a pack of Dentastix in my show bag too, as that's the one thing that mine will never turn down.

M.

You can also try babybel or edam cheese it's rubbery.
But dogs seem to really love babybel :)

>it's rubbery

Who else read that in a Chinese accent ... ?

Must remember that K., mine do love Babybel and wouldn't get so grotty as Cheddar.

M.

Rubbery and lubbberly :D

When you've got 'baited' show girls, you get to know
the good non crumbley bait ;)

Altho babybel is a bit expensive long term ;):D

I use hotdogs, sausages or cheese for training, but for the shows I bring out her favourite which are Chicken or ocean sticks.  (Those crab type sticks you buy on the fish counter)

Liver cake with plenty of garlic in.

Bits of leftover roast chicken, Garlic sausage, dried tripe (smells disgusting but the dog likes it, you have to cut up into little bits, as it comes in quite big chunks), pork scratchings (salty so use with discretion) are all absolute favourites with my dog.
i forgot to mention anchovies, and liver cake with anchovies blended into it.

Mine never seem to tire of tuna cake. It's just like the liver cake but you don't have to scrape liver off the blender blades or their pants :-D The recipe and a few other of my favorites can be found here. They also like cheesy garlic chunks, swedish meatballs, cheap small shrimp, chicken, sausage (fresh cooked like cumberland), all sorts of deli meats. Garlic sausage is what a lot of people at the club use though mine prefer cumberland. :-D

Have to say that tuna cake plus some meat is a staple training mix for me.

Polony sausage and little prawns are good, but nothing'll get Roxy keener than yesterdays roast chicken. Even better is the skin *sick*

some new recipes there Lori, thank you :)

Here's a tip, if you like Pepperidge Farm goldfish try the cheesy chunks. I fight the dogs for them :-D I made them this weekend using bone shaped cutters to raise money for the club. Needless to say the offcuts found a home.

Boxacrazy, if you microwave tuna cake and leave it a little squidgy it makes very good soft bait. I find it's great for making tiny soft treats for young pups too.

:D Cool find out tomorrow if we are expecting pups :D
So fingers crossed will be ringcraft training with a puppy again soon :D
It's only been three and a half yrs since the last puppy

Recipe will be stored, my girls love the gluten free liver cake that I occasionally bake for them. :)

Thanks again for the tip :)

Garlic sausage (works every time for my lot!!).  I only use this for shows, for training I use liver treats.

Sarah.

One of mine likes pepperami and pork pie (or anything that's going!) The other has a more sophisicated pallet and will only show for chicken

Jill

Thanks EVERYONE, lots of good suggestions to try! :D

Just one more - dried fish, you can buy it from a few online shops.

Lindsay
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im veggie and I love the smell of liver cake cooking  - does that make me weird

I'd second (or third) the liver cake suggestion, I know it's disgusting to make, I'm not a veggie and I can barely stand it, but I've not yet met a dog that doesn't love it, specially with garlic in. How about chicken? Mini pepperonis were also popular. One of my dogs also prefers Wensleydale cheese to cheddar. :-D

>One of my dogs also prefers Wensleydale cheese to cheddar.<

Please tell me you've changed their name to Wallace! LOL I'll be so disappointed if it isn't :-D

LOL I'm afraid he's still Henry. :-D

Oh Lucy, you could have let me live with the fantasy! :-D

Sorry!

I cook fresh lambs hearts (not as gross as it sounds :D). I use the blocks from Landywoods but used to get them in packs of 3 from Tescos. I cook it with garlic - my dog goes mad for it :P

PILCHARD CAKE with plentyof garlic :D :D  I used a whole large tin of Pilchards in tomato sauce and it drove the dogs nuts while it was cooking :D  then I was even more evil and cut it up into tiny treat-sized bits and dried it in the oven till crisp :D  they were realy keen for that :D

Sardine cake made like liver cake. :)

Stunk the house out!!!!

Ahhh!

I forgot to mention that :rolleyes:

:D :D :D

Oh yes, I make tuna cake like liver cake too, my boy goes mad for fish!!

My girl is a lab so will work like the devil for ANY kind of food but I have used chick peas, cut up green beans, slightly cooked carrot rounds, jujubes and mini marshmallows.  The latter two sparingly and interspersed with regular treats.  Oh, and cat treats, they are only about 1/4" square and hard though.  All can make a nice mess of your pants pockets so washable garments when training are a must, or a fanny pack.

Don't you mean a bum bag? :D

Oh no! I just sent a PM warning her about that. Jetstone is in Canada and the word doesn't have the same meaning at all.

Course now you replied she's stuck with it. :-D

Sorry, did not mean to offend.  Had no idea that was an unsavoury term.  They are called fanny packs here but I actually call mine a pouch pack as in Fetch 'em up pouch pack, when I address Jet.

Have seen the term in Kathy Reichs' books and just assumed Canadians wore them a different way ... :-D

Can anyone help me across the cultural divide and explain it?  (By PM if necessary! :-D)

The North American's use the 'f' word ;) to refer to what we would call the bum. Over here, it means the female front nether region! :D Don't worry JJ, nobody's offended! :D

LOL the only way I realised is that they used the term in NCIS :D
Abby in the series was wearing one LOL :D

Don't worry didn't offend, just chuckled :D:cool:

Buy some chicken breast fillets,slice them into bite size pieces and bake in the oven on very low until you get the consistency you want.
I make my own chicken jerky by slicing the breast into thin strips and baking in the oven until chewy.I do the same with beef,liver,heart etc. A dehydrater works better,but the oven does the job too.

Jewel dont worry i doubt you would have offended anyone :)

For those of you not up with the differing lingo...Fanny is another word for bum in America,and in England fanny means a girls pee pee.

Well, you learn something new every day!  :-D  Thanks peeps.

Mind you, I call mine a bumbag, but you have to wear it in front or you can't get at the treats! :-)

A tumbag?

Brilliant! :D

And very appropriate with the size of my tum!! :rolleyes: :-D

It is also not a rude word.

Now Bum is used here to refer to your backside, but in the US it is a down ands out person most often, which in UK would be called a Tramp.

I would say that UK people are very familiar with US language usage because of TV and films, whereas Americans often don't understand the words we use.

Hm, I remember a thing on Jamie Oliver talking about his show over there - apparently there were little announcements in the breaks to explain words like "pukka"! :D

but that isn't a British term, Ozzie I think?  And what does it mean?

Pukka is an indian term
pukka \PUHK-uh\, adjective:
1. Authentic; genuine.
2. Good of its kind; first-class.

Pukka comes from Hindi pakka, "cooked, ripe," from Sanskrit pakva-, from pacati, "he cooks."

I always understood the word pukka as being on a par with "the mutts nuts" :D

I chop up the really hard rind on parmasan cheese, it isn't messy to carry and you only need tiny pieces 'cos it is so smelly.  My two go mad for it at the merest whiff. :)

she must be a very fussy dog, my dog would never turn down liver