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The Best Dog Treats For A Walk

  • 28-06-2020 2:45pm
    #1
    The Darkroom
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    My particular dog breed has a hard time keeping focus outdoors on a walk. The treats I use are coachies and while they are fine for in the house and backyard they're quite bland for the walks. They literally will not turn my dog. Although chicken does a better job it's still not great. I tried hot dogs and that was worse than the chicken. Any recommendations for something really enticing to get her focus on me during walks?

    Thank you.


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  • #2
    cocker5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭cocker5


    The Darkroom wrote: »
    My particular dog breed has a hard time keeping focus outdoors on a walk. The treats I use are coachies and while they are fine for in the house and backyard they're quite bland for the walks. They literally will not turn my dog. Although chicken does a better job it's still not great. I tried hot dogs and that was worse than the chicken. Any recommendations for something really enticing to get her focus on me during walks?

    Thank you.

    When training our springer who isn’t really food orientated while out waking and on recall we used .. frankfurters.. now I know they aren’t great but most dogs adore them.. boil them, cut them up into tic / tac size bits .. don’t feed ur dog directly before walking- worked wonders for us!

    They are cheap too .. only needed during training phase

    We did this for 2/3 months worked amazingly and our guy loved them - we no longer need them at all now.

    Oops just saw ur post your e tried hot dogs And they didn’t work..

    Don’t feed ur dog close walking times / make sure they are hungry ..

    Try cheese?


  • #3
    cotton
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    Dried liver works a treat. If you can’t get it then try cooking your own and cutting it into treat sized bites.


  • #4
    charlietheminxx
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    I use Bounce and Bella poultry treats. They smell a bit like Bovril and my dog loves them!


  • #5
    mymo
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    I have used the polish sausage from Aldi ot lidl, the thin one that's kind of hard and chewy, there's a beef one, air dried, it's human food not in the pet section. It breaks nicely and is very smelly and mine go mad for it.
    Mine also love chorizo, but that's even more smelly, every dog I meet loves me :)


  • #6
    tk123
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    Maybe treats aren't high value enough in this situation? Is the dog into squeaky toys at all? If so you could have a special squeaky toy that you only use on walks... or even just carry the squeaker in your pocket and when you get the dogs attention with it then you treat and praise. I tend to mix up what I have with me - atm Bailey is loving chicken stomachs so he gets at least one with his other treats to keep him interested. Lidl actually have them (it says chicken chips on the bag) as well as dried meat training treats which might be worth a try. The Alpha Sprit ones are smelly enough too - Pet Stop sell them.


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