These treats are great for training, and most dogs find them “high value” (especially the ones with fish in them!). As the name says, it’s real meat with only a few other ingredients (chicory, lecithin, sea salt, mixed tocopherols, garlic). The Real Meat treats are basically meat jerky cut into squares, which are scored so they’re easily further torn into tiny bits for training. My dogs love them! Varieties include Venison, Beef, Fish & Venison, Lamb, Chicken & Venison, and Lamb Liver.

Buy Real Meat treats from Amazon.com

Tired of having to pry your dog’s mouth open, shove a pill towards the back of his throat, close his mouth, and hope he swallows?

These treats are designed as hollow “pockets” — just put a pill in and mold the pocket around it, your dog will think it’s a great treat! Less mess and fuss than using deli meat, or cheese, or even peanut butter….

Buy Pill Pockets in a Variety of Sizes & Flavors from Amazon.com

Buy BLUE Adult Formula for Dogs from PetsMart

I’m always looking for pet food I can actually trust to feed my dogs and know they’re getting healthy, nutritional food, but usually I can only find it in specialty dog stores. They eat home-prepared meals for breakfast, but dinner is usually a quick bite of kibble and/or chopped up dog food logs.

So I was happy to find Blue Buffalo’s product lines of food for dogs and cats at my local PetSmart store. (more…)

Buy Turkey Dog Food Rolls from Petco.com

Buy Beef Dog Food Rolls from Petco.com

Buy Lamb Dog Food Rolls from Petco.com

These “dog food rolls” are great! Softer than kibble but a lot denser than canned food, you can cut these rolls up into pea-sized training treats, perfect for clicker training! Dick Van Patten’s “Natural Balance” dog food company is one of the relatively few companies with dog food kibble products that made it onto the Whole Dog Journal’s “Recommended Dog Food” list in the February 2006 issue.

Do be aware that these rolls contain Sodium Nitrite, something you may want to restrict in your dog’s diet if you’re worried about the impact preservatives can have on health.