Tripe preparation includes cutting and smelling a very distinctive scented food. I show you how to do that in this video. I trim lamb tripe sticks into smaller pieces, which I use to train dogs and puppies at Outsmarting Dogs board-and-train. Follow the instructions in this video and you can have an enticing training food for your own dog or puppy. These are the links to the lamb tripe I prepared in the video above. This is the 20 piece {Read More}
Dog Training Food: Why Have Variety?
May 24, 2017 By
Having various flavors and desirability of dog training food at-the-ready is imperative when training a dog. Because, when working on a behavior that’s difficult for a dog to learn, getting and keeping a dog’s complete attention and willingness to move forward will be more challenging. That’s when the steak-level training food is brought out with the well-vetted training plan. For example, when working with a dog to step onto a skateboard as he advances on the training plan will require {Read More}
Chomping The Hand That Feeds Her
May 12, 2017 By
THIS HURTS! Giving a chomper food is painful. My dog Raven needed to take a step back in training for me to re-teach her how to take training food with ease. So I stopped training the behavior we were working on, and for a couple of sessions, we worked on taking the dog training food nicely and in a polite manner minus any pain to my palm. I wiped some chicken fat on my palm, and offered her my palm. {Read More}
Our Motivating Dog Training Food
May 9, 2017 By
When training dogs, I always use a motivating, nutritional food and most of the time, this is food that I bake. I bake trays of dog training food at a time, wrap what I’ll not be using immediately in waxed paper, and store them in the freezer in sturdy freezer bags. Later, I take out and defrost as needed. The waxed paper helps keep freezer crystals from forming and the plastic freezer bags insulate the food. They defrost nicely. Take {Read More}
Outsmarting Dogs’ Homemade Dog Training Food
January 22, 2017 By
Training dogs takes motivation, and I use motivation of the delicious kind – dog training food. Every dog who comes through the Outsmarting Dogs’ board-and-train dog training program here in Lee county learns to behave merely by being motivated by real food. Every single dog is motivated by food. If you have a picky eater, s/he still needs to eat, and will be motivated by the right food at the right time. That’s how the professional dog trainer of Outsmarting {Read More}
