Anyone Got Any Good Titbit Recipes For Dogs

[juliehainsworth]

I was wondering what different titbits I could use to reward my dog when he is being good! Preferably stuff that I could cook and freeze as using liver and chicken doesnt always work! I have a feeling that having a constant change of titbits might get his attention more! I already add garlic to liver to add a different taste and smell but I really could do with some more!

Thanks

 

[Jessica13]

Mine dont get treats at home but for training they get chicken or liver

At shows they get sausage and at ringcraft classes they just get some of their food (dried bisuity things) - Though mine are labs so they dont care what they get as long as its food

To keep my destructive lab occupied in the house we make a liver cake thing, fill a kong and freeze it - Takes him hours to get it out

Cheese is always a good treat, just for training though as you dont want to give him too much. And ham of course. Or the treats that pet shops sell - There loads of choices!

Why do you want to freeze it btw?? Theres not much you can cook and freeze really as far as i know...

 

[juliehainsworth]

It would work out a lot easier and cheaper to be able to cook a whole load of different things and freeze them until needed (I'm a bit too lazy to be cooking liver every couple of days), also my 10mth old dog gets bored of the same reward each time! And I dont want to be spending a fortune on dog treats from shops as he's not all that interested in them

What do you put in the liver cake for the kong?

 

[red-devil0602]

have you not considered clicker training insted of using food

 

[juliehainsworth]

I did buy a cheap clicker thing but that went out the window when we went to puppy class, not looked into it since, I thought with clicker training you also had to have a titbit to reward the dog also? If I'm wrong please correct me!

 

[libertine]

We clicker trained my dog Riley. And you only use treats for the first two weeks or so and then wean him off of them.

 

[juliehainsworth]

I'll have to look into it then, thanks

 

[KathyM]

I clicker train with Dharma, and if we wore off the treats after only two weeks, we'd not have had anywhere near the same success. Some people do restrict treats to the "best" performances, or do it variably, to keep their effort high though. Personally, I find that Dharma works better for pay, although we don't always click and treat (but we do ALWAYS treat when we click, as click means treat).

 

[Canis-Equus]

Umm, you shouldnt EVER wean off treats when clicker training. If you do then the clicker loses its meaning.

Instead what you do is withhold the CLICK, not the treat. Click always = treat. Always.


But to get to such dizzying heights as heelwork to music routines like Mary Ray, etc, then you obviously cant be handing out treats and clicks left right and centre.

So you get a behaviour, trick whatever you call it..... and when its good you start to only click the very best ones. So if its sit, we only click really fast straight sits, sloppy slouchy sits, slow sits, get no click and thus, no treat.

If i want to link lots of behaviours together, say sit, down, stand, turn around, turn the other way, down.......

I start with the final one, down..... then we do down and turn the otherway, click and treat...... then down, turn the other way, turn the normal way, click and treat.........

Etc etc until we have the whole string of tricks, and just one click and treat at the end. This is called back chaining, and as i said before you can train heelwork to music routines iwth it which are 3 minutes long or more.

If you start clicking and NOT treating, your dog will eventually figure the click doesnt mean anything. I think a lot of people get confused and think that the click replaces the treat.


The treat element though doesnt have to be food, if your dog prefers toys or games then thats fine - but it does have to be something your dog likes!

 

[LisaLQ]

All this talk of food is getting me hungry, and I dont even like liver or ham

I'd be interested in any recipes too, not for training as Sky's far too old and set in her ways to teach her anything she doesn't already know (which boils down to "sit and beg for your owners tea, drool on their feet if possible, even better their plate" and "get on your bed and grumble about how they didn't give you any" and "stay outside in the pouring rain doing the please report my owners to the RSPCA look to anyone who passes by if they still wont give you their food"), but just for a treat for her (cos she's my creaky old cow and I love her).

The easier the better, as my family will testify, I am not a good cook.

 

[kanzaris]

Hi

Here are a few recipes that my dog loves.

HOME MADE DOD BISCUITS: 8oz sausage meat
2-3 oz stock or water
8 oz plain wholemeal flour.
Preheat oven to 180 C/350F/gas mark 4. Mix the sausage meat and flour with the stock to form a stiff dough. Roll out on a floured surface to 1/2 inch thickness, cut into squares, or roll into mini sausages. Place on ungreased baking sheets and bake for 30-50 minutes depending on their size. take care not to burn, but they need to be hard. Cool before serving.


LIVER CAKE: Put 1lb of Ox or Lamb Liver with 4-5 cloves of garlic & 1 egg into a Food Mixer & mix well. Put the mix into a bowl & add wholemeal flour to make a scone type consistency, mix well & put into a lightly greased baking tray. Cook on gas mark 4 for about 20 mins. Allow to cool the cut into small pieses & bag and freeze.


TUNA TRAINING TREATS: 2 6oz cans of tuna in water- do not drain.
2 eggs
1-1 1/2 cups wholemeal flour
1 tbsp garlic powder

Mash the tuna and water in a bowl with a fork and the liquefy in a blender or food processor. Add extra drops of water if needed to liquefy completley. Pour into a bowl and add the flour and garlic powder. The consistency should be loke cake mix. Spread onto a greased baking tray. bake at 180 C for 15 minutes. Ise a pizza cutter and cut into tiny squares. This recipe freezes well.

Happy Baking

Sabby