great training treat
Because he can be a bit twitchy and high strung, it's hard to keep his attention when working with him. Sometimes his attention span is that of a 12 week old puppy, every thing (butterfly's, cat, airplanes,) distract or frighten him. A friend mentioned a training treat she started using with her over the top border collie. Sniffers 101 has natural calming herbs, lemon balm, chamomile, and lavender. I bought a bag, tried them according to directions, and glory to the dog gods, it helped!  
The process is, 20 minutes prior to training you give the dog 4 treats per 10lbs. That introduces the right amount of herbs to start calming the dog. Then as you train, you can use sniffers treats to keep the herbs in their system. The problem for me, certainly not Buff, is he has to be fed 28 treats before we start  The treats aren't large and I'm not worried about fattening him up, but the cost is going to get a bit out of hand.
So now I'm searching for a way to introduce the correct amount of herbs without the treat. Then use the sniffers only while training. Any thoughts??? |
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| Why not try making your own? The three herbs are easily to obtain....OK, sorta easy. If dried and powdered you could mix them in the liver biscotti recipe......which is basically liver puree with enough cornmeal to make it hold together. Bake like biscotti, that is double bake.
knowing my guys I could make a liver soup with the three herbs and they'd lap it up. Then you could make a tincture of the three herbs and give via dropper into the mouth or into their water. Basically the idea behind Bach's Flower formulas. |
| I just ordered those myself so I'm happy to hear that you're having good luck with them. I was hoping to give them to Bear when I do major grooming since it gets him a little jumpy. The stress isn't bad enough that I'd consider anything like medication and, honestly, he's not even what I would call overly difficult but the whole process definitely stresses him out. |
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