I was thinking sliced hot dogs, they are cheap and easy to cut up. But they are salty and not the healthiest food on earth. But then, I'm not going to make it their main course,
What do you think? What do you use?
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Variety. I think it helps increase food drive if they never really know what you're going to give them.
I keep a few bags in the freezer and add scraps to them. Venison, boiled gizzards, scraps from one of those purchased barbequed chickens, hot dogs, cheese, left over hamburger etc.
I think if you use the same old treats it gets boring for the dogs. Maybe it was high value and yummy this week but after a while not so much.
I especially like to jackpot on a track if the article indication was perfect...my dog loves venison so I keep some aside for just that purpose.
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Welcome to Leerburg, Lucille. I've used hot dogs--cut them up into teeny pieces and one hot dog will make several dozen treats. To make them less messy, you can microwave the cut up pieces untill they turn into hot dog jerky!
Lately I've been using string cheese--individually wrapped and easy to bite off small bits of it. And my dogs also seem to like cat food kibble as training treats--the pieces are tiny and strongly flavored.
I'm of the opinion that you should use whatever is a high value treat to the dog--just make sure the pieces are tiny (like the size of a kernel of corn), that way you can offer lots of rewards without much impact on the diet.
I've also heard of folks who use the dogs regular kibble as treats--doling out an entire meal as rewards rather than in one bowlful.
There was a pretty good thread about treats recently, here is the link:
Leerburg.com » Forums » General Discussion » General Dog Conversation » What is your dog's favorite training treat?
I use variety and also it all depends on on how high I need the reward to get. Never thought about making the hot dogs into jerky. One of mine is kookoo for oranges, I'll use for a quick session.
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Whatever works for the individual dog.... hotdogs, zukes minis, cheese, peices of meat...just so long as it is tiny(about the size of an pencil eraser) & not crumbly chewey so they can just gulp it & not have to stop & chew.
I like to mix chopped up hotdogs with whatever is leftover from dinner (bits of chicken, turkey, green beans, cheese cubes, etc.) so it's smelly, tasty and eehhh relatively healthy.
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