Visionary Pet Foods Lamb Meat Spread - Healthy Dog Treat - Alternative to Dog Peanut Butter, Xylitol Free, No Sugar and Filler Free - Use on Lick Mat, Food Mixer, Pill Pockets - 10oz

I put this on their lick mats opposite some peanut butter and these dogs went wild! They love the flavor and the texture is perfect for a lick mat! I like that it's a good size jar that will last several rounds with the lick mat and I think that I'm going to have to go back for the other flavors! The dogs love them!Also, I had a problem in shipping. the first time I ordered this, i received an empty envelope because the post doesn't seem to care, but the company didn't play and sent me out a replacement the same day and I got it quick! Not only is it a good product, but it's good customer service as well. I will definitely be doing more business with them.

Both of my dogs love this.After the first use, it is not the easiest thing to use. You are supposed to refrigerate after opening.However, once it is refrigerated, it becomes very stiff and breaks up instead of spreading smoothly.I am adapting to it, and I am finding ways to get it to spread easier, because my dogs absolutely love it. So far the only thing they love more is peanut butter. It is a little bit healthier than peanut butter.It is pricey. I might not re-purchase it at this price.

I got the lamb variety, and my dog is used to eating lamb and rice dry food, but she didn't like this. She's a 70 pound Boxer/Pointer mix for reference. I spread some generously on a small pile of her dry food and set it down just outside the kitchen where I could watch her. She is not a picky eater except for peanut butter, she hates peanut butter but will eat anything else whether it's supposed to be eaten or not. She looked at it, smelled it, looked at me, smelled it again. Eventually she nibbled at some after staring at it for a good minute but then walked away. I was making dinner so I left it down there and after awhile she came back and eventually ate the rest of it, but she wasn't happy about it. I didn't smell peanut butter but maybe she smelled peanut butter, I don't know what turned her off of it, but I was surprised that she didn't like it. I don't know if she would like a different variety and I'm not willing to chance the money to find outIt would probably be ok as a topper if you needed to give your dog an incentive to eat but as a treat for a big dog it's pretty pricey. It's all natural so if you have a small dog and just use a little it could work out price wise. I am also a little wary of it not needing to be refrigerated. The only ingredients are lamb and lard, no preservatives. I'm uncomfortable not refrigerating it. Not a success here, you may have better luck.

The media could not be loaded.  My dog absolutely loves this stuff. He’s not at all a picky eater; he’ll eat almost anything. But I can tell when he’s thinking, “Yeah, okay, you dropped this in the kitchen so it’s probably edible, so I’ll eat it,” (bell peppers) and when he’s thinking, “OMG, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.” This definitely falls solidly in the latter group. I would argue that these spreads might even be his favorite thing.When you’re training a dog, they say to have different categories of treats, giving the most “high value” treats for the most difficult or important behaviors. I got my dog to stop trying to get at and kill the Prime Guy by giving him salmon skin treats (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09HP7K9JB/) when he gets in his bed and stays there while I answer the door (uh, the dog, not Prime Guy). I could easily imagine this being as high-value of a treat.But where I really plan to use it is for medications. In the summer, my dog gets super stressed over thunderstorms, wind, and fireworks. I have prescription pills that I give him as needed. I usually wrap them up in a ball of shredded cheese, but this will be so much easier and quicker. I can just dip up a bit on a spoon and stick the pill in there. He’ll never even notice it.The texture is pretty firm, almost as firm as butter just out of the refrigerator (in the video I’ll upload, it had been sitting at room temperature, around 70F, and had never been refrigerated), but with a grittiness added to it. I would imagine that the lamb is dehydrated and ground up, and that’s what causes the grittiness. Dogs won’t care. The texture of this one is noticeably firmer than the chicken and ghee version.The smell is very faint. It reminds me a bit of a farm store smell. But I couldn’t smell it until I held it up close.Having let my dog try all of the versions of this (beef, salmon, lamb, and chicken), I think the beef is his favorite, but he clearly loves all of them.I love that this only contains lamb and tallow (beef fat), so it’s perfectly safe for your dog’s teeth and won’t promote tartar. Don’t overfeed it (it’s a TREAT), but the ingredients are healthy.Definitely recommended.

To start, it does smell a bit to the human nose, but to the dog nose, it smells like deliciousness! Our boy goes CRAZY when this jar opens because he knows he is going to get a tasty snack. We have a little 'bone' toy that you can smear something inside of and it keeps him busy for quite sometime as he is determined to get every tiny bit of this goop onto his tongue! This flavor is one of three that we got to try and they all rank WONDERFULLY according to him.When the spread comes, you need to stir it up as you would a natural peanut butter, but after the initial stir, it seems to hold well. It does not need to be refrigerated according to the label instructions, but we thought it best to keep our open jar in the fridge. Cold or Warm, it doesn't matter to our boy in the slightest, but for my peace of mind I keep it in the fridge.This product works GREAT on lick mats (for bath time it is a must for our boy), inside lickable treat dispensers or just glopped up with a pill inside. The ingredients list is clear and everything I have found says it is "Made in the USA" which gives me peace of mind.