We usually use real cheese, shredded so it's tiny. Do you mix it up or do you stick with the same treats? What do you carry them in when you train?
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A mix of cooked steak bits the size of a pea, soft cheapo training treats cut in half, and sometimes cut up string cheese...it's a treat...doesn't have to be the healthiest food out!
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- Cooked Chicken - Iceland and Aldi have pieces of cooked chicken it's available in bags which are about the size of a bag of frozen chip. The pieces of chicken are the size of a frozen chip. Dogs love this, I defrost the amount which I need for a training session and for my GSD I chop the pieces into the size of my little finger nail It's cheaper than commercial dog treats and much healthier.
Black Pudding - Is fantastic. It's available from butchers and supermarkets. Chop it up, bag it and freeze it.
Cheese - Buy a large block of HARD cheese, chop it up, bag it and freeze it.
Sausage - It's available as hot dogs in tins or you can simply buy ordinary sausage from the butchers, cook it, slice it and then freeze it. Supermarkets also sell cooked smoked sausage which you can also chop up and freeze
Liver cooked in the oven, diced and frozen.I
Liver cake - l/2 Ib liver, l/2 Ib plain flour, 1 egg, several cloves of garlic.
Liquidize the liver and squash up the garlic, mix everything together OR just put everything into a food processor. The consistency should be the same as a Christmas cake. Cook in a Swiss roll tin, cool and cut in to treat size pieces and freeze. - I wouldn't suggest using soley cheese as a training tool because of it's high fat and sodium levels. It's fine on occasion but I would use something that is lower-calorie, and not likely to cause tummy upset if eaten in larger quanitities. Often times its beneficial to simply use the dogs main food as the training incentive as then they don't get a whole bunch of extra calories each day at meal time, as well as the fact that its good to eat several smaller meals anyway for digestion purposes. You could also try using the clicker training method to get away from food incentives all together or alternatively, just use praise, love and attention if it will work for your dog. If you must use a treat, make sure you take in consideration the amount (kcals) of treats you feed and subtract that from the dogs main meals.
- I usually use my dog's food as training treats - I measure her food for the entire day in the morning and set most of it aside for training and she gets what's left for dinner. Her breed is prone to overeating and becoming overweight so I do not like to train using treats. I've been doing this with her for two years and she'll still do anything for kibble - if she got bored with it I guess I'd have to switch my tactics!
I will give her little pieces of chicken or other meat as a special reward, and she has Kong brand treats for her toys. She has other treats as well but I do not use them for training. - well you can use anything your dog loves. (mine loves cheese. i cube it) try to give him dog biscuits too. Give him/her small peices not huge treats because you still want him to eat his dog food.If your training a puppy try giving him his dog food thats made for puppys so he/she gets his proteins.
i reccommend putter butter treats. dogs LOVE peanut putter or at least all 4 of my dogs do.
tip: when he does what you want him to do perfectly give him 2 treats (that way he learns how to do it better) - Praise.
I rarely train with treats. I find my dogs to be much more reliable when trained with verbal praise. I mean dogs aren't stupid, my guys KNOW when I do and don't have some yummies tucked away in my pocket. If i taught them to only work for food then they'd look at me and be like "Dude, we KNOW you don't have anything for us right now. SO WHY should I put my but on that cold floor?".
Sometimes instead of good boy, I'll praise with a quick game with their favourite toy.
On those rare occasions that I do use food rewards - I like freeze dried liver. The dogs love it. It's healthy for them, and it doesnt make a mess of my jeans when its in my pocket (well except for that one time I threw them in the wash without taking them out D'oh!) - I personally use IAMS puppy biscuits because Gracie isn't a year old yet, and Zeus and Grace will both eat anything given to them, but we do use quite a variety of things. Sometimes they get cheese, just depends.
- I use whatever I have and the ones my dog likes. Cheese, chicken, ham, pet shop brands of treats. My dog will work for anything, so I take advantage of that.
- I use dried liver treats
- No treats. I use correction and praise.
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