Treat Tuesday: Three Dog Bakery From Our Kitchens Training Treats

The guys behind Three Dog Bakery gave me this bag of From Our Kitchens Pork and Blueberry Training Treats at SuperZoo. These are one of the few products marketed as "training treats" that are actually an appropriate size for clicker training and other methods that use a high rate of reinforcement. They're pretty darned nutritious too, grain-free, and made mostly with pork, beef, chickpeas, and blueberries.

Good For: Mid-value training treats. Picky dogs, even Ru and Zip like them. Clicker training. Reactive dog training. Trick training. Playing games. Hiding in puzzle toys. Training without making my hands smell vile. Dogs with allergies to poultry, eggs, grains, and sweet potatoes. Brisbane would have been able to eat these!

Not Good For: Super-high-value training in distracting environments. Dogs with allergies to pork, beef, chickpeas, or blueberries.

How Much We Like Them: I'm definitely throwing some of these into my next batch of treat trail mix.

Treat Tuesday: Three Dog Bakery Soft Meaty Treats

These Three Dog Bakery bacon and cheese biscuits are a little walk down memory lane for me. Once upon a time, about fifteen years ago, I used to take my cocker spaniel Oakley to a Three Dog Bakery store on State Street in Santa Barbara. It was the sort of fun small business that knew me and my dog by name, and they had all sorts of adorable goodies. The store eventually closed, and at the time I was unaware that there was more than one Three Dog Bakery.

As it turns out Three Dog Bakery is alive and well and growing. They have a huge variety of packaged treats and goodies, so I don't even need to have a bakery nearby to get them!

Good For: High value training treats when broken up. Picky dogs. Chihuahuas that don't like to crunch up big cookies. Not being horrendously smelly.

Not Good For: Keeping things clean, the cheese dust falls off them like Cheetos.

How Much We Like Them: Ranger and Ru both thought these were awesome!