Stinky Stinky Stinky Treats (Good Boy Tripe Sticks)

Member Name: moog27

Product:	Good Boy Tripe Sticks
Date:	24/04/09 (149 review reads)
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Advantages: good for teeth, natural ingredients, dogs love them, good value for money

Disadvantages: they STINK

My dog Bonnie loves anything that smells disgusting, if it stinks and she can eat or roll in it then she is in doggy heaven. She has incredibly healthy teeth so we try to minimise treats that might ruin her sparkly whites! However, she loves something to chew and is not terribly enthused by the typical denta-rask (and similar brand) treats. One of the few treats that she loves is these discusting tripe sticks!

The treats are part of the Good Boy range of treats and come in a blue packaging. The 500g pack sells for around £3 and seems to be pretty good value considering you get plenty of the sticks in the pack so we find that one packet lasts a good few months.

The tripe sticks are made from natural ingredients and are supposedly good for your dogs teeth. As soon as you open the packet you will be overcome by the terrible stench. It literally smells like an already dirty public toilet after someone has had a nasty accident! They do stink.........really badly! But Bonnie loves them. Each one is about 5inches in length and is black/brown in colour, they are hard and dry and come in random sizes. When you take one out of the packet you will need to wash your hands with soap to get rid of the stench. However, at the sight of one of these beauties, Bonnie will drool and obey your every command! She will generally lay down and chew away at the tripe stick, although other times she will throw it around and play with it first or even roll on it. Bonnie is a very good chewer and can destroy the average "invincible" dog chew toy in minutes, so it only takes her a couple of minutes to engulf this particular treat if she decides to eat it in one go.

Strangely, whilst the tripe sticks smell vile, they do not give Bonnie bad breath, and as much as I don't understand why, they actually seem to result in her having better breath! She absolutely loves these treats and if given the choice of these versus any other doggy treat, these tripe sticks win hands down. My grandparents dog also loves them and he tends to spend longer chewing them than Bonnie does. I must admit that they are a pretty good bargain given the price, the number that you get in a pack and how much dogs seem to like them.

The only real issue is whether you can cope with the smell. They are beyond disgusting and if you are going to have them in your house then you need to have some method of isolation! We initially tried keeping them in Bonnies treat drawer in the kitchen but that was awful, so the next step was to close the end of the bag with a peg, this was mildly successful but you could still smell them if you walked past that drawer. We have not come up with a solution which is to keep them inside an airtight Tupperware box, you still have to endure the smell when opening the box but you can shut the lid on them nice and quickly.

Over all they are definitely worth a try. They have done no harm to Bonnie's teeth and she really does love them. They aren't too expensive and will give your dog a little bit of fun as they chew on them. They stink but if you can get over that then I do recommend them. I cant quite give them five stars because the smell is just too much but I do give them a very strong four stars.

Summary: great natural dog treats if you can stomach the smell