Training Treats

BARF refers to Biologically Appropriate Raw food or Bones and Raw Food. It is where owners have decided to feed their Schnauzer a natural diet of raw meat, bones, and organs. If you are considering this for your Schnauzer, you will find lots of handy tips here.
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Training Treats

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I've been feeding my 6 month old mini natural instinct for the past 2 weeks and she's doing really well. I was wondering what training treats would be best to use, I was using small amounts of cheese or cooked chicken before but I don't know if this would upset her digestion? Any ideas would be appreciated.
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With our raw fed dogs we try to avoid using treats that contain grains primarily but we have used both tiny amounts of cheese and cooked chicken with no problems. We also use dried liver treats and dried tripe stick pieces...and dried fish skins. The only thing with cheese is the high fat content but as long as you are careful to limit this it should be OK. Cooked chicken should not be a problem at all :)

Although you do not want to compromise the acidity of the stomach in your raw fed mini by feeding too much grain / kibble, if you are using cooked or dehydrated meat /fish just as training treats they should not really cause an issue in a healthy young dog. Dogs are by nature scavengers so I would not worry unless you notice any digestive problems in your mini girl.
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one of mine has a intolerance to cheese, even a tiny bit upsets his tummy, so instead i used natural instincts chicken hearts, cut in to tiny pieces, which was a great high value treat, and then i used a small amount of hot dog sausages as a lower value treat.

at the moment our girl is doing weekly socialisation at the vets and learning the bucket game, with her having so many treats ive started using Gentle dog food and cutting her raw meals in half on training days. Gentle is cold pressed and grain free and designed to be fed as a alternative or alongside raw.
its also handy to have in the house on days where we've forgotten to get the nutriment out the freezer :))
http://www.gentledogfood.co.uk/buy-online.php
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Re: Training Treats

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Thanks for your replies. I've tried the natural instinct treats and also freeze dried fish treats before, she loves them probably more than cheese so that's we will be using :-* . She's becoming a big girl at nearly 8kg so I really need to be mindful about the type and amount of treats that she has. I'll look into the gentle dog food too as that would be handy as a standby if needed.
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