Looking for a good quality treat for training

[Bathel]

What do you recommend/use for "treats" when training? I looked at store bought treats and they all seem to be filled with crap...

[daisyandduke]

I use Zuke's Dog Treats for them and they love it. I usually get the salmon formula. It has pretty good ingredients. No wheat, no soy, no corn!

[Sansal]

I use cheese, roasbeef, cut up chicken sausage and I also make my own treats, using for example canned sardines, flour, an egg and some cheese (and bake in oven for 20 min).

[Bathel]

What kind of cheese ?

[Sansal]

Originally Posted by Bathel

What kind of cheese ?

Any kind. The smellier the better I usually use cheddar.

[DiverDiva]

Check out the recipes for tuna fudge and liver treats in this thread
1st agility class AGH!
I make the salmon variation of tuna fudge, Oscar and all his classmates love it, and it is not expensive to make.
I also use string cheese. It is very convenient.

[TwoDogs]

I believe in variety. This week alone I used:

Diced chicken breast, leftover steak, frozen peas and carrots thawed, cheese bits (this week it was Swiss), chicken liver sauteed with a bit of garlic powder (yes, it was messy), SALMON BROWNIES (you can freeze them and then just thaw what you need), rice chex, high-protein fish-based kibble (currently I'm using on a trial size bag of Acana), Natural Balance dog food rolls (the tiny ones are the perfect size to grab and go), Zuke's Minis, Solid Gold Turkey Jerky, blueberries, a couple of licks from my cup of yogurt (no artificial sweetener), and the leftover bits of crust from a sandwich.

I change things up and generally try to use a mixture of stuff for the more formal training sessions. I figure that if they never know what is coming, then they can't decide that it isn't worth working for.

[Mega's Mom]

My go-to training treat was always cut up pieces of hot dog. It can be a little messy but it worked for us!

[whiskers]

The possibilities are endless! As far as store bought treats, we do: Zukes, Natural Balance food rolls, Wellness Wellbites/Pure Rewards, freeze dried liver, lamb lung (Merrick makes one)... ugghhh I know there's more but I'm blanking.

"Home made" treats works great too. Hot dogs, cheese, leftover steak/chicken/whatever from dinner, baked beef liver, fishy fudge, Spam, cheap lunch meat. Get creative

I frequently use kibble, too. It's pretty low-value compared to, say, lamb lung lol but it at least works at home and in our yard. I somehow manage to accumulate lots of sample bags of kibble, so I have plenty to work with and it's different from the kibble I feed her, so she's not bored of it. I have a sample bag of Now! kibble which is where most of our training treats come from at the moment.