SAFE list for chews, treats and toys (glenmar)

 I use Zuke's brand treats when I buy commercial treats. It says they are made in the USA and corn and wheat free.

I've been using the new Eagle Pack treats. They come in chicken, duck, or salmon, and the rice used in them is grown in the US. I also get Sam's Yams and their new designer sweet potato chewies, Uncle Duke's I think.... they have flavors on them, like the basted rawhides.  

Most of what mine get is just bites of meat or fruit, for Ena. I've gotta go get her some of the Gerber fruits. I know she'll love them.  

I buy homemade treats from bluegrass barkery...the bake them in the back of the store!

i also got some biscuits @ whole foods, i think they're called world natural or something.

I also give castor and pollux good buddy biscuits.

as far as bones go, i give the shin bones...they don't splinter and last forever

 I use Smokehouse Beef Munchies

which are beef lung - made in USA.  Smokehouse has quite a few different treats and at least the non-chicken ones are made here.  I don't know about the chicken and duck because we can't use them

I have a question - what about Bill and Jack liver treats?  I used to buy them all the time, then stopped when Charlie was on a diet so I haven't bought them in a while - are they safe?

Tink loves Nylabones -- in all my years I've *never* had a dog before this gaga over a Nylabone! 

But the ones David came home with yesterday are marked "Chicken flavored - Petit" and "Durable" (they have several different' consistency labels).

But they do say "Made in USA" altho it looks like the home company is in England.

The Kong biscuits are shockingly nice. I have a bag of the puppy snacks that I bought a couple of months ago. They have no wheat and were made in the USA. I got them to go in Ena's baby Kong, and she loved them, but I'm being funny about her skin, right now, so she hasn't had one, lately. 

Charlie Bears treats with liver...

have wheat flour, poultry liver, preserved with a mix of tocopherols, salt and garlic powder.

 Bag says made in USA.

Charlee Bear Products - a division of Wixon Inc, St. Francis, WI

I give Apollo Canidae Snap Biscuits and Canidae Snap Bits. Basically they're the same ingredients but different sizes. I use the Bits for training. He loves 'em!

The ingredients:

Chicken Meal, Turkey Meal, Brown Rice, Barley, Dark Rye, Oat meal, Rice Bran, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), Rolled Oats, Apples, Carrots, Eggs, Flaxseed, Molasses, Norwegian Kelp, Garlic, Parsley, Peppermint, Sunflower Oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), Choline Chloride, Sun Cured Alfalfa Meal, Inulin (from chicory root), Lecithin, Sage Extract, Cranberries, Beta Carotene, Rosemary Extract, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Dried Enterococcus Faecium, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Extract, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Extract, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Fermentation Solubles, Vitamin E Supplement, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Thiamine mononitrate, Manganese Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Supplement, Biotin, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin, Vitamin D Supplement, Folic Acid, Cobalt Proteinate, Organic Selenium, Papaya, Pineapple.

just because it says "made in the USA" doesn't mean the ingredients didn't come from somewhere else.

I usually buy some of the following, keeping a mix on hand:

Natural Balance treats from the allergy line (grain-free)

Avoderm Natural Kookies

Wellness wellbars

Newman's Own treats

All of these are wheat, corn, and soy-free made with quality all-natural ingredients.  If I see one ingredient I don't care for in any treat, it goes back on the shelf!!!  I'm much more diligent in checking labels on anything I buy for Harry than I am for my own food, lol!

Tink loves Nylabones -- in all my years I've *never* had a dog before this gaga over a Nylabone! 

nylabones aren't safe and have killed/caused quite a few dogs to have to undergo surgery. They aren't digestible and if your dog bites off a chunk and swallows it, which happens fairly often, your dog may be in big trouble.

mudpuppy

Tink loves Nylabones -- in all my years I've *never* had a dog before this gaga over a Nylabone! 

nylabones aren't safe and have killed/caused quite a few dogs to have to undergo surgery. They aren't digestible and if your dog bites off a chunk and swallows it, which happens fairly often, your dog may be in big trouble.