What should I use for training treats?

• It is important to use not only healthy/balanced treats but to to also use treats that you dog can chew and enjoy quickly.  
• You must not forget that treats add calories to your dogs diet and you can easily cause unwanted weight gain.

Treats we recommend

• Their daily homemade food.  This is not always convenient due to the messy nature of it
• Homemade liver/eggs/oatmeal treats (this is well balanced nutritional treat that is dry)
• Raw chicken hearts cut in quarters (limit this treat due to the inbalance of it being all protien/phosphorus)
• Moist kibble/granular (this is not in addition to but extracted from their normal daily food)

Treats we do not recommend

• Dry kibble/granular. It takes too long for the dog to chew and therefore is distracting to training.
• Hotdogs/sausages.  Too much unhealthy fillers
• Cheese.  Causes gas, indegestion and diahrea
• All commercial treats purchased in the pet store.  99% of these treats are simply unhealhy for your dog