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Hello all.

Rocky (jrt) and I are learning agility. I have no ambitions of competing it’s just for fun and rocky turns out to love it. Plus it gives him something else to do. He’s a typical terrier. Needs things to exercise his brain as well as his body!!

Anyhoo I have a lesson every week then go home and work on it. (I’m hopeless at right and left. Always have been but I’m trying really hard for rocky ‘s sake! 🤣)

We train with treats. It helps with a certain terrier’s attention span when in a field. He’s learning to follow my hand but the treats I’m providing are according to rocky only slightly interesting! My trainer says cut up some liver? Anyway I thought I’d ask you lot. I can’t give him sausages as they *ahem* go right through him. 😳

So hit me up with really good tasty irresistible treats please!
 
You can buy pre-made liver cake if you can't be bothered with the faff.
I train my dog using her normal food and she gets her daily allowance from my hand(s) for 'work', through training or just general engagement/coming back to call, but she was raised like that and deliberately selected from a long line of absolute gannets ;)
 
I do some for fun agility bits with my whippet. He doesnt really see the point quite yet so the rewards have to be really worth it for him. He has left over roast chicken usually.
 
Jenko109 said:
I do some for fun agility bits with my whippet. He doesnt really see the point quite yet so the rewards have to be really worth it for him. He has left over roast chicken usually.
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Yeh see now I tried chicken which is nice but not if you’re having a sniff down a rat hole. 😳🙄🤣.
 
CorvusCorax said:
You can buy pre-made liver cake if you can't be bothered with the faff.
I train my dog using her normal food and she gets her daily allowance from my hand(s) for 'work', through training or just general engagement/coming back to call, but she was raised like that and deliberately selected from a long line of absolute gannets ;)
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Thanks. Yes I adjusted his food because he gets a treat mat once a day (just doggy biscuits) so I can fiddle it between reducing his food and his treat mat.

I shall look at liver cake thanks.

He’s is very good oriented unless he thinks ‘oh look at that hole!! Might be something interesting down there!’ So I just need something more delicious that the broken up biscuits I’m using now.

And here’s the thing. The if he met a rat coming the other way he’d be horrified!! Last one he met he ran the other way. 🤷‍♀️🤣
 
druid said:
I mostly use the ANCO pates which are easy to cut into cubes, freeze in portions and seem irresistible to dogs. Do allow for the calories in the treats by reducing your normal food accordingly.
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Just looked and this might dry well be worth go.

Just gotta get something soooo yummy it beats the delightful smell of rat/squirel/pheasant.

I mean if he met a rat/squirrel/pheasant he’d be horrified.

Not sure he’s actually a jrt if I think about it …..
 
Parrotperson said:
Sorry do they do a cheese and steak pie flavour????
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I thought they did...

These are his favourite:
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Pedigree Tasty Minis Adult Dog Cheese & Beef Nibbles | Pets

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followed closely by these ones
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Wagg Dog Treats Steak Pie & Gravy | Pets

Buy Wagg Dog Treats Steak Pie & Gravy | Available to order today & Free Delivery on orders over £39
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I use a mix, moist sausages like these are nice and stinky and easy to cut up small, freeze etc so are great as high value treats.

JR pate is high-ish value for mine and again, easy to chop, pre portion and freeze.

Cooked chicken and freeze dried raw are lower value for my guys but still something they enjoy so has been great for leaving on contacts as they don't love it enough to run off course to find it but still look for it when they get there.
 
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If you want absolute dog crack Arden grange liver pate… not massively practical & can’t be thrown for them but it motivates the hooligan to get off his arse when he’s in one of those “what’s my motivation” moments.

Alternatively does he find toys rewarding? In certain circumstances mine is more motivated by his flirt pole or a tug enough rabbit tug toy.

We only faff about training stuff for fun though, we’re not very serious (& I’m having to do a lot more bribery atm with him as he’s lost a bit of motivation/ confidence)
 
We used hot dogs on walks, but ours have never been bothered when training/walking about treats. Obviously, anything human from the fridge is exceptionally tasty. Liver cake is great, but the sinewy bits used to really tax my mixer.
 
Thank you everyone.

Am going to try anco pate and I’ve found a firm in Cornwall (I think) that does liver cake pre cut into small chunks.

Hopefully the ‘follow mummy round the obstacles’ will no longer involve detours for sniffs!
 
To make your own livercake here is a recipe
1 pack chicken livers (Morrisons fresh)
Blitz into a smooth paste in a magimix
With 1 egg
Add 10 dessert spoons of plain flour , I use doves farm gluten free
Blend until smooth
Pour into a 1lb loaf tin and bake at gas 6 for about 40 mins or until you start to smell the liver cake.
Allow to cool then cut into the piece size you require.
Can be frozen either as a block or as pieces
 
Indy said:
Bandit really likes southern fried chicken fridge raiders chopped up into tiny pieces when we do scent work
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Oh hadn’t thought of using these - do they work? I’ve a freezer full of dubious fridge raiders stuff that the grand children used to eat. They’ve now moved on and def not to my taste but maybe the dogs would like them 😀🐶
 
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