JR Pet British Sliced Sausage - 250g

JR Pet British Sliced Sausage - 250g is British meat sausage, already sliced into treat-sized pieces.

Key Features

• Sliced, so it is ready to use: Straight into a treat pouch with no preparation. The whole sausages in this range need cutting first, and in practice that is the difference between a bag you use and a bag that sits in the cupboard.
• Highly palatable, which is the whole job: A training treat only works if the dog wants it more than it wants whatever else is going on. Sausage is near the top of most dogs' list.
• British meat, responsibly sourced: JR name the origin, which most treat brands do not. Beef or chicken on this listing.
• Low in fat, nothing added: No additives and no preservatives, and JR list it from twelve weeks old.

How Much Is Too Much

• Treats want to sit at around a tenth of a dog's daily calories. Everything above that either comes out of the main meal or goes on as weight.
• Air-dried meat is dense, because the water has been taken out of it. A 100 g bag is closer to three or four hundred grams of fresh meat in what it actually delivers, so it goes much further than the weight suggests.
• For training, break them small. A dog works just as hard for a fingernail sized piece as for a whole stick, and you get ten times the repetitions out of the bag.
• On a day with a big chew in it, cut the dinner. That is far easier than trying to take the weight off afterwards.

Single Proteins And Exclusion Diets

• These are single named proteins with nothing else in them, and that is what makes the range useful for more than treating.
• If you are running an exclusion diet to find a food sensitivity, a single protein treat is the only kind you can give without undoing the whole exercise. A treat labelled 'meat and animal derivatives' tells you nothing about what the dog ate.
• The novel proteins are the ones a dog has probably never been exposed to: ostrich, kangaroo, goat, rabbit, venison, sea bass. A dog reacting to chicken and beef has usually never met any of those, which is why a vet will point you at them.
• Introduce one new protein at a time and leave a couple of weeks between them, or you will not know which one caused what.

Storing Them

• Air-dried rather than cooked, so they keep by being dry. Keep them dry and they last; let them get damp and they will go mouldy.
• Reseal the bag or tip them into an airtight tub, and keep them off a sunny shelf and away from the hob.
• That matters more in this climate than it does where they are made. A bag left open in a humid kitchen softens within days.
• Natural products vary. Piece size, colour and thickness differ from bag to bag, because these were parts of animals rather than something extruded to a spec.

Good To Know

• Soft and strongly scented, which makes it the right choice for a dog that will not take a dry treat in a distracting place.
• Also good packed into an enrichment toy or a snuffle mat, where the smell does the work of keeping a dog hunting.
• Reseal the bag. Softer treats dry out and harden once the air gets in.
• Keep treats away from children and wash your hands after handling dried meat.