Palette's note: Gator Bites
When you pick up treats for your
dogs, what would you look at? Ingredients? Fancy looking
pictures? Description of the products? Have you ever wondered if you
could actually see how other dogs are enjoying them? Not pictures,but in
video so that you can actually HEAR and feel the treats' textures?
Some of you may have already recognized I have been putting up treats' taste testing video on youtube so that people can hear the sound,see Palette in action and get more detail on each products.
With "Palette's note" series,I like to put taste test videos. This time, "Gator Bites".
Gator Bites..
"Gator Bites" are dehydrated American alligator meat made in USA, and they are made from one simple ingredient "American Alligator meat". This treat is sold by 3 oz resealable bag.
This treats is easy to cut to small pieces for training with scissors, and perfect for training treats. I have one pair of scissors that I use only for cutting treats for Palette's training. When I sit at the table, cutting one piece to small pieces, Palette patiently lie down on the floor, and waits for my preparation for her training session. If she were lucky, she gets small piece of "Gator Bites" that dropped to the floor while I was cutting the piece into small pieces.
Each whole piece of "Gator Bites" is not big size, and if you prefer, you can use it as "Snack before bed",too. If you do, your dogs may feel like they cannot wait to go to bed each night. Then, after their last potty before bed, you may find your dogs dash to their crate and waiting for you to come with yummy treats with drool around muzzle.
At our house, Palette gets "Snack before bed" and snack can vary depending on availability but, things that never change is that she dashes to her crate as soon as we back from potty before bed, and I find her in the crate lie down with drool bubbles around muzzle. She knows the routine, and she knows she gets something yummy before bed. Always " Lets go bed" makes her big ears perk up and get her so excited to go bed.
After switching Palette's diet to fresh diet a.k.a raw diet, I have realized so many of the dog treats that are sold as "all natural dog Jerky treats" are filled with sea salt,garlic,sugar,lecithin(additives),rice flour etc and also some are enriched with other vitamins.
Some Jerky sold as wild caught salmon Jerky is gray colored sandy texture although wild caught salmon is bright orange color, and if manufacturers have used meat as base,it should be fibrous not sandy texture. It seemed like they had more brown rice flour than actual salmon meat.
Also,some Jerky is preserved with Vitamin E (Mixed tocopherol) and is delivered from soybean oil. Some dogs, including our K9 executive chef "Palette" reacts to natural Vitamin E delivered from soy. She starts chewing paws.
Some are preserved with rosemary oil. Some dogs (Dogs with EPI) might react to Rosemary in treats because rosemary can be a trigger for seizure for EPI dogs.
Some Jerky contain fruits,vegetables and may be using more vegetables,fruits than meat itself even though you could find meat as top ingredients in the ingredients list. This happens because you could list ingredients like lamb, ground oats,ground rice, ground barley,molasses etc etc and list goes on for Lamb Jerky's ingredients. I have found that some Jerky use 39 ingredients for one type of "All natural" Jerky treats! All ingredients are really necessary to make one type of healthy Jerky treats??
Ground oats,ground rice, ground barley are all grain and next ingredients you find in the list above is sugar (Molasses) and still lists goes on so, if you add all grain ingredients, and other all extra ingredients amount, amount of grain and extra ingredients may exceed the amount of lamb used in the Jerky, plus when dogs are perfectly happy with just dehydrated Lamb meats,why do manufacturers add extras? More is not necessary be better for all circumstances.
Many dogs love those Jerky that has sugar,garlic, salt,smoked flavor added etc.. and price maybe affordable price but are they really good for them?
Since garlic is natural,sugar is natural,salt is natural, even if actual key ingredient (meat) are used much less, products can be categorized as so called "All natural Jerky" treats.
Some dog treats contains Molasses in the ingredients list, unless you ask the manufacturer, you never know what grade of Molasses is used. If the manufacture were just looking for sweetness, they could use Molasses treated with sulfur (preservatives).
Sometimes, you have to wonder what the "Natural Flavors" is when you find it in the ingredient list. It is never be listed with the name of protein source. So, you never know if it is Lamb or Beef or Turkey or .. And I never understand that why manufacturers need "Natural flavors" to enhance the flavor when "REAL" Lamb meat has all the "REAL" natural flavors. What else manufacturers need to add to 100% natural and fresh meat used in the treats?
We wanted to offer treats made out from simple one ingredients without any fillers. This treats is one of them.
Our k9 executive chef "Palette" love this treats. She gets excited and really works hard to earn the clicks (She is clicker trained) from me when I use this treats as training treats.
Ingredient:American Alligator meat
Let's watch Palette in action with Gator Bites taste test. If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
Palette and Gator Bites
Can you see she is very very excited to go get the leash when I asked her to? Can you hear the sound when Palette is eating it? You can see how much she loves when you see her follow the treats in my hands when I moved my hands up and down. She follows the treats with huge cow eyes
You could tell that she knows there is still more Gator Bites pieces on the table and she keeps checking the table, making sure nothing left on the floor or on my hands, and she licks her mouth as if to say "That was yummy! Can I have more,please?".
This is one of Palette's favorite snack/training treats that makes her twirl and jump, and make her nose wet in a second.
Alligator is low fat novel protein source,and great treats for dogs that cannot have treats made with common protein source,too.
Lets go for walkie, Mom!
Here I come...
You got a wet nose,Palette- Mom
I know. That's because I know what you have in your hands!-Palette
To visit our store,please click here or paste and copy the link bellow into your browser.
http://yassysgdk.com/main.sc
Some of you may have already recognized I have been putting up treats' taste testing video on youtube so that people can hear the sound,see Palette in action and get more detail on each products.
With "Palette's note" series,I like to put taste test videos. This time, "Gator Bites".
Gator Bites..
"Gator Bites" are dehydrated American alligator meat made in USA, and they are made from one simple ingredient "American Alligator meat". This treat is sold by 3 oz resealable bag.
This treats is easy to cut to small pieces for training with scissors, and perfect for training treats. I have one pair of scissors that I use only for cutting treats for Palette's training. When I sit at the table, cutting one piece to small pieces, Palette patiently lie down on the floor, and waits for my preparation for her training session. If she were lucky, she gets small piece of "Gator Bites" that dropped to the floor while I was cutting the piece into small pieces.
Each whole piece of "Gator Bites" is not big size, and if you prefer, you can use it as "Snack before bed",too. If you do, your dogs may feel like they cannot wait to go to bed each night. Then, after their last potty before bed, you may find your dogs dash to their crate and waiting for you to come with yummy treats with drool around muzzle.
At our house, Palette gets "Snack before bed" and snack can vary depending on availability but, things that never change is that she dashes to her crate as soon as we back from potty before bed, and I find her in the crate lie down with drool bubbles around muzzle. She knows the routine, and she knows she gets something yummy before bed. Always " Lets go bed" makes her big ears perk up and get her so excited to go bed.
After switching Palette's diet to fresh diet a.k.a raw diet, I have realized so many of the dog treats that are sold as "all natural dog Jerky treats" are filled with sea salt,garlic,sugar,lecithin(additives),rice flour etc and also some are enriched with other vitamins.
Some Jerky sold as wild caught salmon Jerky is gray colored sandy texture although wild caught salmon is bright orange color, and if manufacturers have used meat as base,it should be fibrous not sandy texture. It seemed like they had more brown rice flour than actual salmon meat.
Also,some Jerky is preserved with Vitamin E (Mixed tocopherol) and is delivered from soybean oil. Some dogs, including our K9 executive chef "Palette" reacts to natural Vitamin E delivered from soy. She starts chewing paws.
Some are preserved with rosemary oil. Some dogs (Dogs with EPI) might react to Rosemary in treats because rosemary can be a trigger for seizure for EPI dogs.
Some Jerky contain fruits,vegetables and may be using more vegetables,fruits than meat itself even though you could find meat as top ingredients in the ingredients list. This happens because you could list ingredients like lamb, ground oats,ground rice, ground barley,molasses etc etc and list goes on for Lamb Jerky's ingredients. I have found that some Jerky use 39 ingredients for one type of "All natural" Jerky treats! All ingredients are really necessary to make one type of healthy Jerky treats??
Ground oats,ground rice, ground barley are all grain and next ingredients you find in the list above is sugar (Molasses) and still lists goes on so, if you add all grain ingredients, and other all extra ingredients amount, amount of grain and extra ingredients may exceed the amount of lamb used in the Jerky, plus when dogs are perfectly happy with just dehydrated Lamb meats,why do manufacturers add extras? More is not necessary be better for all circumstances.
Many dogs love those Jerky that has sugar,garlic, salt,smoked flavor added etc.. and price maybe affordable price but are they really good for them?
Since garlic is natural,sugar is natural,salt is natural, even if actual key ingredient (meat) are used much less, products can be categorized as so called "All natural Jerky" treats.
Some dog treats contains Molasses in the ingredients list, unless you ask the manufacturer, you never know what grade of Molasses is used. If the manufacture were just looking for sweetness, they could use Molasses treated with sulfur (preservatives).
Sometimes, you have to wonder what the "Natural Flavors" is when you find it in the ingredient list. It is never be listed with the name of protein source. So, you never know if it is Lamb or Beef or Turkey or .. And I never understand that why manufacturers need "Natural flavors" to enhance the flavor when "REAL" Lamb meat has all the "REAL" natural flavors. What else manufacturers need to add to 100% natural and fresh meat used in the treats?
We wanted to offer treats made out from simple one ingredients without any fillers. This treats is one of them.
Our k9 executive chef "Palette" love this treats. She gets excited and really works hard to earn the clicks (She is clicker trained) from me when I use this treats as training treats.
Ingredient:American Alligator meat
Let's watch Palette in action with Gator Bites taste test. If you are a blog subscriber or reading from face book,please click here to watch the video.
Palette and Gator Bites
Can you see she is very very excited to go get the leash when I asked her to? Can you hear the sound when Palette is eating it? You can see how much she loves when you see her follow the treats in my hands when I moved my hands up and down. She follows the treats with huge cow eyes
You could tell that she knows there is still more Gator Bites pieces on the table and she keeps checking the table, making sure nothing left on the floor or on my hands, and she licks her mouth as if to say "That was yummy! Can I have more,please?".
This is one of Palette's favorite snack/training treats that makes her twirl and jump, and make her nose wet in a second.
Alligator is low fat novel protein source,and great treats for dogs that cannot have treats made with common protein source,too.
Lets go for walkie, Mom!
Here I come...
You got a wet nose,Palette- Mom
I know. That's because I know what you have in your hands!-Palette
To visit our store,please click here or paste and copy the link bellow into your browser.
http://yassysgdk.com/main.sc
Posted by yassy at 11/16/2010 8:04 AM 
Categories: Yassy's Gourmet Dog Kitchen
Tags: taste tests alligator treats yassys gourmet dog kitchen dehydrated treats
Categories: Yassy's Gourmet Dog Kitchen
Tags: taste tests alligator treats yassys gourmet dog kitchen dehydrated treats
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