Usually treats are covered in stock or salt, aka flavouring. You can give your dog healthy treats that are not loaded with salt. Try coring an apple, filling it with petmince and freezing it, my dogs go nuts over these!

It depends on what treats you’re talking about. If you’re referring to the chewy ones you get at supermarkets they have a lot of sugar, artificial flavours, and chemical preservatives plus they’re no hard like dog food. They taste as good to a dog as candy tastes to us for those reaons. And they’re just as bad for them as candy is for us. A bowlful might make your dog sick.

its not the same treats a like chocolate to us they dnt supply our body with the things we need thats is y treats and not real food

Treats covers a wide range of possibilities. Most treats at the grocery story have bad stuff–but so does the dog food.

1. Dogs like treats because not just the taste–but usually because they earned it. You could serve almost anything for dessert for a child but by making it dessert it becomes desirable (okay, maybe not brussels sprouts but you get my idea). For instance, I give kibble as treats most of the time (just feed my dog a little in the morning and save the rest of his food for treats when we do normal stuff like walks, recalls, simple things–and save the high value treats for important or challenging stuff). Anyway, my dog will jump when I toss him a kibble treat. It’s the exact same stuff he gets in his food bowl in the morning. But you see, he sees it as something special–it’s a “treat” not his meal.

2. Desirable treats don’t have to be bad. I feed my dog treats from Dogswell and Zukes. Both are healthy. But good dog food is balanced to provide a range of nutrients and dietary needs (I feed by dog Inova Evo). But treats don’t have that balance.

For instance, Broccoli isn’t bad for you. But if that’s all you ate, you’d begin to suffer health-wise because broccoli is not a complete diet. Well, even healthy treats do not provide a complete diet for a dog. That’s why even with the best ones, you don’t want to feed a dog a lot. In fact, the correct sized treat for most dogs (except maybe a St. Bernard or Mastiff) is about the size of a pea. Yes, that small. That’s because you want to be able to use the treat to train with. And therefore give a lot of treats without satiating the dog. For instance, when I’m doing agility training with my dog, in a 1 hour class, he’ll eat 50-80 treats. But he’s not full afterwards because I cut them up into really small pieces.

Also, while all dogs like treats, dogs have different drivers. For instance my dog is what is called both food-driven and toy-driven. He really likes his treats. But what he likes most of all as a reward is me kicking a soccer ball that he can chase and then juggle. So don’t assume that it’s only just about the food for your dog.

peanut butter, sugar { corn syrup }, liquid smoke, artifical flavorings, chicken/beef/vegetable stocks, did i mention..SUGAR!!!!