Treat Tuesday: Redbarn Rolled Dog Food

Redbarn makes both grain-free and grain-inclusive dog food rolls, this is their grain-inclusive lamb roll. I like using rolls as training treats because they are complete and balanced dog food, so I don't have to worry about filling up my tiny dog with things other than dog food. I can chop dog food rolls as tiny as I like, and each roll makes tons and tons of treats.

Good For:

• Chopping into a zillion tiny training treats
• Holding their shape and not crumbling
• High-value training treats
• Dogs with poultry, beef, wheat, egg, corn, lentil, or tapioca allergies

Not Good For:

• Staying moist when exposed to air for more than a day
• Dogs with lamb, rice, pea, or egg allergies
• Diabetic dogs, all food rolls contain added sugar

How Much We Like Them:

This is currently my favorite food roll. It's not crumbly, it stays moist for a reasonable amount of time, it's easy to cut, and it doesn't go moldy when I forget it in the fridge for a week.,

Treat Tuesday: Red Barn French Toast Flavored Bully Slices

I bought these French Toast Flavored Bully Slices because I saw them at the Red Barn booth at SuperZoo 2016 and thought they were hilarious. They've got a whole bunch of "bully coated" treats and chews, made with their special "bully gravy". Now we all know that bully sticks are some of the nastiest treats on the planets from the human perspective, and possibly the most delectable from the canine perspective. Red Barn claims to have created some sort of horrific concoction that can give other objects the essence of bully, but they could also just be capitalizing on the name. Bully sticks are expensive, bully-insert-thing-here is much more affordable, and my dogs might like it just as much! Clever Red Barn, very clever.

Good For

• Being way cheaper than a bully stick
• Portion control for dogs that can eat a large rawhide chew in a single session
• Lasting about as long as any other small strip of rawhide
• Smelling kinda like breakfast and kinda gross at the same time
• Dog owners that only feed treats and chews made in the USA

Not Good For

• Dogs that swallow their chews whole
• Lasting as long as an actual decent-sized bully stick
• Dogs with egg or beef allergies
• Dogs with sensitive tummies

How Much We Like Them
The girls both love them, and they're good for a few minutes of peaceful gnawing. They give Zip diarrhea though, so these are going to be a Godzilla-only treat now.

Treat Tuesday: Red Barn Bully Sticks

Red Barn bully sticks are the best bully sticks available in my area. Having seen them in person, I am confident buying them online. These are big fat bullies that take a long time for the dogs to demolish. Sisci can't even finish a 12" Red Barn bully stick in a single chewing session. As these are basically the only kind I've seen or purchased in a physical store, I thought these were normal bully sticks. This explains my disappointment when Chewy.com sent us a shipment of American Journey Bully Sticks.

I like bully sticks because they are made of nothing but meat and are therefore fully digestible. Sisci tends to consume about half of one of these, and then she's ready to carry the rest around like a trophy. Brisbane makes it a project to devour his bully sticks, and the only one he had to give up on was a 3-foot-long giant stick. Ru will occasionally gnaw a bully stick, but he doesn't really eat them so they last forever (or until a real dog finds them).

Good For: Occupying a dog that needs a chewing project. Safe chewing for dogs that like to swallow things whole. Dogs that don't tend to like to chew things. Puppies. Dogs allergic to things other than beef.

Not Good For: Long and leisurely power-chewing sessions. Dogs with beef allergies. Not being incredibly stinky and gross. People who don't like the idea of their dog gnawing on a dried bovine penis.

How Much We Like Them: I won't buy any other brand of bully stick online. These are actually made in Paraguay, but Red Barn owns the manufacturing facility there and I'm comfortable with their quality standards. I'd be less comfortable with them using USA beef and shipping it out of the country for processing.