We can't import the great treats you have for training and only have poor quality treats here. What can we use as soft treats for training?

We were wanting to ask you about something.

As I had said in our previous email, we had ordered some things from you (DVDs, toys, treats, bait bags), however, we are unable to receive the food treats due to customs. But we are very disappointed not to be able to get these treats - they appear to work so well and I'm sure our puppies would have loved them so much. We realize it's out of your or our power to do anything about actually getting them in our country (Australia) :-) but we were wondering if you could recommend any other kinds / brands of treats that would be just as healthy, and yummy for our puppies (and that would work the same as those other soft treats you use)? In Australia, we can only get all the junk brands of everything, all the ones you don't recommend (Vets brands, hill science, advance, and plenty other junk brands etc. which we wouldn't feed our puppies).

Then we are stuck. We have been using raw red meat and chicken meat cut up real small, dried chicken strips, and dried liver treats, but these ones are too hard to chew and gulp up quickly and take way too long to eat and then continue training. What can you recommend? Perhaps you know of places and brands in Aussie where we can get good, soft, easy- for-training treats? Otherwise our puppies only get raw meat as their treats and no variation. We have searched high and low on the internet looking for good treats (such as the ones on the American market like Zukes Mini Naturals, Soft Training Treats, Plato Smart Treats, etc), but we just can't find anything. I don't think we can get treats in from America (or can we?) through our customs. Perhaps we can, we've never tried yet. But then if they confiscate them, we loose them.

What can we use as soft treats for training? Please help us out if at all you can, we need your advice! :-)

Awaiting your reply at your convenience.

Thank you for your time again,
Rachel

PS. I think my mother is sending you an email (from our other email address) about a story you would be interested in - an unpleasant experience with dogs in the past - it might be one you could use along with your other stories of dog attacks as a warning to others. Yes, dog attacks are very serious, we learned that! . . . :-(