The benefits of natural dog treats for your best friend

The popularity of natural dog treats is on the rise and with such a huge amount of health benefits, it’s easy to understand why. A Beef Tail may not sound appealing for us humans, but your dogs will love it. In this blog, we’re going to explore the benefits of natural treats for your very best furry friends.

 10 Benefits of natural treats

One of the main benefits of our natural treats is that well, they’re totally natural, there's just no additives or preservatives in sight and they are mostly single source proteins!!. This makes them great for keeping your dogs healthy and you can ensure you’re only giving them things which you know will agree with them.

 1. Stronger Immunity

To stay fit, healthy and to lead a long a life as possible, your dog needs a healthy diet. Our natural treats are full of the nutrients that your dog's body needs including protein. Protein is essential in boosting your dog's immunity as well as being full of Amino Acids to build fur, skin, nails and ligaments and plays a huge role hormone production.

 2. Better Digestion

Artificial chemicals are not easy for dog's stomachs to process and lots of dog food and treats are packed with these. One of the key benefits of natural treats is the lack of additives, artificial chemicals and preservatives which means it’s easier for your dog to digest and they’re able to absorb all the important nutrients that their bodies need.

 3. Dental and oral health support

Natural Treats are "Natures Toothbrushes" and are great for removing plaque. Some of our more fibrous natural treats like our Braided Ostrich Tendons will even floss your dogs' teeth. On one of our tougher chews like our Pork Femur Bone, when your dog is busy munching away, it will help to clean their teeth and get rid of any dirt and plaque that’s built up.

 4. Natural Dewormers

Did you know that animal fur acts as a natural dewormer for your dog? Treats with hair on, such as hairy rabbits ears, are actually natural dewormers. The hair helps to cleanse their digestive system and flush out any nasties.

5. Healthier Skin and Coats & fewer allergies

Give your dogs the glossy coats you’ve always dreamed of with natural treats, the healthy fats in them will help give their coats that lovely shimmer and shine. All of the nutrients and lack of bulky grains in natural treats can help with skin allergies in dogs, healing and and stopping possible outbreaks. Grains are used as "bulkers" and "fillers" and these often cause upset stomachs as dog's struggle to process grain.

Vitamins and minerals are crucial in keeping your dog lovely and healthy, natural treats contains lots of these vitamins and minerals like Vitamin A and C. 

6. Naturally calming

When dogs chew it is a natural anxiety and boredom reliever, it releases endorphins and helps to calm them down. All of our air-dried natural treats are perfect for your dogs to chew on, they are often long-lasting so also act as a great boredom buster. We also have a great range of treats with added natural relaxants like chamomile. Our Green & Wilds Fish Crunchies with Chamomile have been shown to help benefit dog health. Chamomile properties really help ease a stressed-out pup into a more relaxed state. These delicious dog treats also contain Omega-3 for healthy skin and coat, can help calm inflamed and irritated skin and are low in fat!

7. Air Dried

All of our natural treats are air dried so have extremely high levels of concentrated proteins and nutrients. With absolutely zero additives or preservatives, grains or gluten, this makes natural treats so much more rewarding, tastier and what we all want.. healthier for your dogs.

8. Single Protein Source

Allergies in dogs are on the increase and many dog treats will have multiple proteins in the same snack which is bad news for dogs with allergies. Our natural treats single source protein snacks so you know exactly what you're giving your dog, there's no hidden proteins at all. All of our snacks are perfect for picking the proteins your dogs know and love.

9. Lower in calories

Mass produced treats are often high in calories, fats and fillers.  As our natural treats are just meat and fish, it means most are naturally lower in calories, particularly our delicious Ostrich range which is not only extremely low fat but also, it's hypoallergenic so great for dogs withy allergies to more common proteins .  

10. Rawhide Free

Here at PetBuddy, we steer so clear of nasty rawhide, we know it's full of chemicals and impossible for dog's to digest, urgh! We would never ever stock it, ever!! You can rest assured that all of our natural dog treats are rawhide-free! Natural treats are a great alternative and are so healthy for your dog! 

Looking to start feeding your dogs with natural treats? Our natural treats are the perfect way for your dog to try lots of different treats and figure out which ones they like. We have over 250 different snacks, all natural, healthy and delicious, which will you choose?!