I just ran across your blog regarding dog treats. I bake my own all organic dog treats for my dog. I monitor what he eats and gives him plenty of exercise. He’s 10 years old and he visits his vet for his rabies shots only. His energy is unbelievable.

Anyway, regarding the treats, I used to give him commercial bought treats but I noticed he has gained weight. With my treats, I incorporated unrefined virgin coconut oil (no added sugar, salt, pesticides, chemicals, artificial coloring that will stain your carpet) and he actually got leaner. I decided to share them to his buddies and they love it. It’s guilt-free treats. They can eat as much as they can and not gain weight.

Marilou

I have always fed him a dry rice/lamb food..not Pedigree brand.. and he had done very well with that. Occassionally purchased chew bones and “treats” for him along the way. But this past week I purchased Pedigree “breath buster” treats for the first time giving him only 3 in a 5 day period. Thursday night around 9:00 pm he started throwing up and became very lathargic. By Friday morning around 8:30 he was dead before I could get him to the vet. No idea what may have happened but the only change I could note was the Pedigree treats. I’m investigating more on these treats and hope to find out if they in any way had bearing on his death.

Please BE CAREFUL when purchasing Pedigree products until more info is revealed on kidney failure in dogs and the treats they are consuming.

sadened..
carol

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Hi Roudy

Personally I have never had to do anything so drastic. I tend to give them a stern ‘No’ and then occassionally give them a reward for being good and waiting. They soon learn to stop barking.

Regards
Justin

But it’s sort of the same thing. I know of a company (it makes Purina products) that gives discounts on its products to students from a certain guide dog school. So of course, that’s the brand that school recommends. I wondered what it was about Pedigree that my dog didn’t like. So I got the label off the bagf and took it to a vet whom I trusted. He told me that the food had too much of the wrong kind of fat in it, among other things. He also gtold me that my dog might have some kind of food allergy. I switched her to a “premium” lamb and rice food and she loved it. Of course, I still didn’t know what I know now about what to look for in commercial dog food and what to scrupulously avoid.

Obviously, you’ve had a better experience with Pedigree than I did and dogs have differences. But this is just a word to the wise. I don’t think Pedigree was in the infamous Pet Food Recall list.

Thanks for reading,

Laura

My dog poppy acted exactly the same way as Dragon. But recently we got another dog and since then she eats all the time the thing is she was very skinny before but now she is quite chubby. I am not suggesting you get another dog but you could try Dragon on Bakers complete dog food for small dogs as it certainily worked on my dog. !!!!