Dog Biscuits

Oven baked dog biscuits are the traditional Australian dog treat: usually a wheat based dough baked hard, shelf stable, and cheap enough per kilo to use every day. PeekAPaw stocks the BlackDog bakery range — Bigga, Charcoal, Cheese, Double Cheese & Bacon, Mint & Parsley, Peanut Butter, Multi Mix, Glucosabics and the Mini sizes — alongside SavourLife's Australian flavour biscuits and Mimi & Munch's Woofbutter Bakes.

Pick the size before the flavour. The 5kg and 10kg boxes are far better value per kilo, but they are a lot of biscuit for one small dog, and baked biscuits soften once the box is opened. If you are not feeding a multi dog household or using them for training, a 1kg bag finished quickly beats a 5kg box gone soft. Decant into an airtight container either way.

Mini biscuits are not just small — they are the practical choice for training, because you can hand over twenty in a session without wrecking the daily ration. Full size biscuits suit a once daily reward for a medium or large dog. Either way, count biscuits into the day's food rather than adding them on top.

Two things worth knowing. Charcoal biscuits contain activated charcoal, traditionally fed for wind and digestion; charcoal can bind medication, so do not feed them around the time you give tablets. And most baked biscuits are wheat based, so if your dog is on a grain free diet, read the pack before you buy.

Buying dog biscuits for a dog with a sensitive stomach or a food allergy takes a closer look at the pack than the flavour name. Most of the baked biscuits here are wheat based, but SavourLife's Salmon Flavour Grain Free Biscuits are the grain-free exception. Flavour names describe taste rather than the full recipe: SavourLife's Kangaroo Flavour Biscuits, for example, also contain chicken oil and peanut butter, so a dog that reacts to chicken needs a different option. If you are testing whether a biscuit suits your dog, buy the smallest bag first and introduce it slowly before committing to a bulk box.

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