What Makes a Treat "Trainable"
A good training treat isn't just something your dog likes — it needs specific practical properties that make repeated, rapid-fire rewarding possible during an actual training session.
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Easy to Break Small
Training requires many small rewards per session, not a few large ones — a treat should break into pea-sized pieces easily.
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Fast to Eat
A treat that takes 30 seconds to chew breaks the flow of a session. Training treats should be swallowed in a second or two.
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High Aroma
Strong-smelling treats hold attention better in distracting environments — outdoor training, other dogs, unfamiliar spaces.
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Low Calorie Per Piece
A single training session might use 20–40 small rewards. Calorie-dense treats add up fast and risk unwanted weight gain.
Why Real Meat Beats Commercial Training Treats
Most commercial training treats rely on artificial flavour enhancers and high sugar or salt content to create intense palatability cheaply. Real, dehydrated meat achieves the same "high value" effect naturally — the concentrated aroma from dehydration (moisture removed, flavour compounds intact) makes it genuinely one of the most motivating rewards available, without needing any additive to compensate for lower ingredient quality.
Best Options From Our Range for Training
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Chicken Bites
Pre-sized for training, easy to break further
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Chicken Jerky
Breaks into small pieces, low fat
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Buff Jerky
Richer aroma — great for high-distraction settings
Training Session Math
A typical 10–15 minute training session might use 20–30 rewards. Break jerky pieces into pea-sized bits ahead of time and pre-portion them in a treat pouch — this keeps sessions flowing and prevents you from over-treating with full-sized pieces out of convenience.
If your dog seems more excited by a specific treat outdoors or in distracting environments than at home, that's a useful signal — save your highest-value, most aromatic treats specifically for the hardest training contexts, and use lower-value rewards for easy, familiar exercises.
Rule of thumb: reserve your dog's single favourite treat exclusively for training — if they get it randomly throughout the day, it loses its special "jackpot" power during actual training sessions.