fjm

Primula cheese - not sure of the US equivalent?

http://www.primula.co.uk/tube_orginal.html

But messy pockets aren't really a problem - Sophy gives mine a thorough clean out as soon as we get home (and checks any polythene bags very thoroughly, just in case - I have learned not to leave spare poo bags in my pocket if I don't want to find them full of small holes!)

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Arborgale

Thanks fjm! I have never seen anything like that before. I'll have to look around the dairy case to see if we have anything similar here.

CT Girl

Milkbones are very calorie dense and a low value food so they would be near the bottom of my list. There is a dearth of good quality dog treats. The ones that are high quality are so expensive. I tend to make my own - grilled chicken, pork tenderloin ect. which is messy. I have a treat bag which I wash out all the time which is a pain but at least he is getting good quality food. I have bought the ingredients for fjm liver cake 3 times and each time I had some disaster happen and not been able to make it. Perhaps 4th time will be the charm, from the ingredients it looks like a winner.

PaddleAddict

And my point was that I would like to know what my dog is eating. "Meat" can be any meat or mixtures of meats. For one thing, my dog is allergic to chicken, so I could never feed him anything that was called "meat." Also, I just see that as a sign of a cheap, low-quality food/treat for my dog.

There are so many great treats out there with much better ingredients, not to mention all of the healthy, yummy real foods people have mentioned here like cooked meat, cheese, etc.

.wesss

Solved the problem... I found that in my small town a pet supply store sells Orijen! Oh my gosh.. he loves it. He eats it incredibly fast. Thanks for all the help guys and gals

outwest

Glad he found something he loves! A dogs favorite time of day is meal time. They should enjoy it.

You can always buy some canned meat and mix a quarter of the can in it with some warm water. Presto. He'll love his food.

lrkellly

Sprout is also extremely picky. He eats Acana small breed puppy, but he wouldn't eat Taste of the Wild, Candidae or Royal Canin. - it took me a while to find something he likes.

For treats he is also really picky. However, if you can find dehydrated liver you might have some luck there. I've also had success with dehydrated chicken strips. The bonus with these treats is that they don't go bad and they are really healthy.

If you're training him it might be worthwhile to cut up some cheese into small portions. I combine cheese and ground beef to use as a treat in Sprout's obedience class. The benefit of his attention offsets the messy hands.

fjm

Do be careful with dehydrated chicken - wonderful stuff if you make your own, but most of that available commercially comes from China, and there are very serious concerns about it - see the Treats thread.

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lrkellly

Thanks FJM - I looked for a treats thread with this info but I couldn't find it. When I search 'treats' a ton of threads come up...
Could you give me more info on where I could find this thread?

Also I buy Chewmasters by Celebrity - Chicken Strips. Apparently they are from China (which I did not realize) but the CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) routinely checks the factories.

I would love to know more information, and now I'm thinking that perhaps I should buy local gizzards etc and dehydrate them myself...

fjm

This is the thread: Treat warning

I'm looking to make my own, too - mine love it, but there have been too many reports of problems for me to feel comfortable giving it to them.

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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden,
where doing nothing was not boring- it was peace.

~ Milan Kundera