Nutriment Duck Gourmet Sausages – Grain Free Dog Treats

Gourmet Duck Sausages for Dogs

Gourmet Sausages are soft, pliable sausage-shaped treats made in Britain by Pet Treats Wholesale, and the duck version is 40% duck with chicken and sweet potato behind it. They tear easily, which is what makes one sausage go a long way in a training session.

Duck is the richest sausage in the range. Crude oils and fats are declared at 32.2%, against 14.1% for the rabbit and 20.1% for the chicken, with crude protein at 33.9%. That richness is why they work on a dog that has stopped noticing everything else, and why the quantity needs watching.

Performance & Benefits

• Duck at 40%, with chicken, sweet potato, minerals and glycerine — nothing else declared.
• Grain free, with no cereal in the composition.
• Crude protein 33.9% and crude oils and fats 32.2%, the highest fat figure in the sausage range.
• Soft enough to tear into several training-sized pieces from one sausage.
• Duck as the named protein, useful where a dog has gone stale on beef and chicken treats.
• Made in Britain by Pet Treats Wholesale, who list the Gourmet range as suitable for puppies.

Suitable For

• Training and recall work, torn down small.
• Fussy dogs, and dogs that no longer respond to a plainer treat.
• Puppies, per the maker's own guidance for the Gourmet range.
• Grain-free feeding plans.
• Not right for a dog on a fat-restricted diet — at 32.2% crude oils and fats this is the richest sausage the maker produces.

Feeding

• Feed supervised, with clean fresh water always available — the maker's own instruction.
• A complementary treat: feed alongside a complete and balanced diet, not in place of it.
• Reduce the main meal to account for what is given as treats.
• Tear a sausage into pieces for training rather than feeding it whole.
• Pet Treats Wholesale publish no daily allowance by bodyweight, so none is stated here.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: duck 40%, chicken, sweet potato, minerals, glycerine.
• Analytical constituents: crude protein 33.9%, crude oils and fats 32.2%, crude fibre 8.1%, crude ash 9.3%, moisture 16.5%.
• Pet Treats Wholesale list Gourmet Sausages in 150g, 1kg and 5kg packs.
• The maker publishes the same duck analysis for the Sausages and the Slices, so the two formats share these figures.

Care & Caution

• At 32.2% crude oils and fats this is a rich treat. Keep quantities small for an overweight dog, and avoid it where pancreatitis is a known risk.
• Feed supervised, and do not leave a dog alone with a whole sausage it could swallow in one.