Treat Tuesday: EttaSays Little Bitz Toasted Coconut

This bag of EttaSays Little Bitz arrived in our most recent allergy-friendly BarkBox. We get all sorts of new and interesting treats with no beef, chicken, turkey, corn, soy, or wheat in our box. EttaSays makes two flavors of Little Bitz, ours are Toasted Coconut. These are semi-moist and itty bitty.

Good For: High value training treats that are just the right size. Smelling strong enough to get the attention of the dogs without making my hands all gross.

Not Good For: Lasting a long time.

How Much We Like Them: These may become our new go-to training treats when I don't feel like chopping up bits of hot dog or smelling like dried liver all day.

The March Allergy-Friendly BarkBox!

The theme for this month's Allergy-Friendly BarkBox is "Movie Night". The allergy-friendly version of the monthly goody box comes with no chicken, turkey, beef, corn, soy, wheat, or gluten ingredients...usually.

My favorite thing in this box is the LollyCadoodle Wool Snake. It's a good two feet long and made out of felted wool. It's also super cute! Ru likes to grab and shake it, and newly-returned foster puppy Darla has been carrying it around all evening.

The Pet Qwerks Pawpcorn toy is getting significantly less love around here. Like the flat penguin, it crinkles. I'm trying to convince Darla that it is super awesome, but we may use the Scout's Honor system to swap it for something more fun.

We got three different edible goodies in this month's box. The Healthy Dogma Bacon Hearts are adorable. They remind me of the Superior Farms grain-free biscuits, and are made in the USA.

The Etta Says Toasted Coconut Bitz look like they will be excellent training treats. These are also made in the USA.

The Nature's Bits Salmon Recipe turned out to be a bit of a disappointment because they contain chicken fat. Fortunately I happen to have a spare dog at the moment. I'm really hoping Darla gets adopted before I can feed all of these to her. In that event, I will send them with her to her new home.

The September Allergy-Friendly BarkBox

Our September BarkBox arrived on Tuesday, and I am relatively pleased. It's not an all-star lineup, but we should be able to use most of the things inside. The theme this time around in football, which is not my favorite thing. It's not so much that I have a problem with football in particular, I just disapprove of the entire institution of professional sports. Still, this BarkBox had some interesting goodies.

I think my favorite thing in this month's box is the PetProjekt Football Tretball. Most of this company's products are along ultra-modern design lines, with plenty of bright colors and unique shapes. Many of their toys look like they were designed with a specific dog in mind, or a specific problem to solve. I like the Tennisbal rubber grip that fits over any standard-sized tennis ball and helps hang onto slippery, slobbery balls. Their YapCap screws onto any water bottle and turns it into a squeaky toy. We have their DogLog and Squeeki Tiki toys, and I'd like to get their Tretcon and a Furchun cookie puzzle toys. The Tretbal Football is interesting, it kind of reminds me of the Busy Buddy Kibble Nibble. The holes are too small to let most kibble fall out, so the intention is to have dogs squash, crush, and flip the toy inside out for their treats.

Ulysses particularly liked the FabDog Pom Poms. They're supposed to be cheerleader pom poms, I'm curious whether other BarkBox subscribers got the same or different colors. If I were not willfully ignorant about teams, I would probably know who these colors represent. This particular toy was specially made for BarkBox, it doesn't look like FabDog normally carries tennis-ball-on-rope toys.

We got an Etta Says Duck Chew, which Ulysses has already devoured. Brisbane is allergic to duck, and Ru won't eat most poultry, fortunately Uly is here to pick up the slack. These things are a mixture of duck feet and rawhide, and the company also makes them out of beef, deer, and probably some other stuff. One of our local stores recently started carrying a whole bunch of different Etta Says stuff, so we will be trying more of their goodies. I have long been a fan of their liver treats.

Duck was apparently a big thing this month, it's the only meat in the allergy-friendly lineup that Briz can't eat and this month we got two duck things. The second one is a bag of BBQ Duck-flavored yumZies Jerky Burgers from Nootie. The company primarily makes shampoos and bath products for dogs, but also produces yumZies dog treats.

The last thing in our September BarkBox is a box of bacon-flavored PetSafe Indigo Smokehouse Strips. These were vacuum-sealed and need to be refrigerated because they are totally perishable once they're open. BarkBox recommends using them within three days. I've been stuffing them into toys and so far nobody is complaining.