07/12/2024
🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴 DOG TREATS 🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴
Thinking of buying some Christmas treats for your Cavapoo? Here's my advice and what I've learnt over the years.
The easiest thing to remember when buying dog treats and training incentives is - one ingredient only.
Good examples:
Dried lamb, kangaroo, venison, liver, pork etc
Rabbits ears, ostrich tendons and lambs ribs.
Some dog treats are made with natural preservatives like ginger, lemon, cinnamon, apple cider vinegar, oregano, and star anise. These are also acceptable.
However, there is a MASSIVE amount of choice available and most of the products are full of ingredients that are very unsuitable and in some cases toxic to our dogs - usually marketed as being natural and good for them!
Here is a short list of just some ingredients to avoid in dog treats:
* Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)
- A lab-made chemical that's also used as a preservative in dog food and has been linked to liver damage and cancer
* Potassium sorbate (PSG or E202)
- An artificial preservative that can irritate the skin and eyes, and may also irritate the digestive system
* Refined sugars and artificial sweeteners
- Can be addictive for dogs and aren't a natural or healthy part of their diet.
* Meat Meal
- This is made from the parts of animals that aren't consumed by humans. It can contain hair, bristle, feathers, horn, hoof and skin and of the contents of the stomach and viscera.
* Raw Hide
- Not natural, not fit for consumption and very likely to cause intestinal blockages, poisoning from chemical residue and choking.
'All About Dog Food' is a useful website that gives the ingredients in most dog food and treats on the market and explains what the jargon means:
