Chicken Breast Freeze Dried Dog Treats, 1 Ingredient, Made in USA, 11.6oz

My little dog loves his PureBites chicken! He usually refuses his kibble if it doesn't have some PureBites on top! Great stuff!

I have a senior dog who is diabetic and really loved getting a Kong with a treat pre-diagnosis. These single ingredient treats make him so happy, which makes my heart happy that he still feels like he is getting something special. I also use a couple of pieces and shred them (they shred easily) and put them in his water bowl on days when I need to encourage water to keep him hydrated. In addition to him, our other 2 dogs have become spoiled with the freeze dried chicken as well. We go through many, many bags.

My dog absolutely is obsessed with these chicken treats. She loves the taste, smell and texture. Sucks how expensive they are, but I get it.

These are amazing training treats! The chicken pieces areeasy to pull apart into smaller pieces which makes these awesome for incorporating into training. For my dogs it’s a mid-level treat that I use for after they learn a behavior and rather, we are working on consistency. There isn’t a particularly strong smell to them, which is great for me to use in training areas that are crowded and where I don’t want to smell like I am the stinky person. I now have these on subscription for my pups. The only CON I can think of with these treats is that because they come apart so easily, there is quite a bit at the bottom of the bag that is just hard to use for a "training treat". Instead, I end up putting the bottom bag leftovers into a treat bowl that I mix with other items to freeze on a hot day.

I used to buy FRESH IS BEST but switched over to this brand because they stopped offering Fresh is Best through the monthly subscription plan. (They now offer it again). However this product is less expensive, so I was happy to save money. I have been buying it for a year now, several bags a month. I have a cat with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and is very limited to what he can eat. About a month ago, I received a 11.6 oz bag of spoiled product. You could smell it was bad and it was very greasy. Both my cats and dog would eat though, so I thought it was ok, even though it smelled bad. Within a few days, my sick cat stopped eating completely and I had to nurse him back to health. I then ordered a few smaller sized bags the next month, and ALL 3 OF THEM ARE ROTTEN, and from 2 different lots. I called Amazon, AND I CAN NOT SAY ENOUGH GOOD THINGS ABOUT THEM....EVEN THOUGH THE PRODUCT IS NOT RETURNABLE, THEY REFUNDED ME THE MONEY, and I ordered from FRESH IS BEST. However, I wanted to follow up with the manufacture (in Quebec, Canada) to find out what is going on with their quality control. The woman curtly took the lot number information, after I offered it several times...and basically said that was all she was willing to do. I told her that she is going to lose me as a customer, and others on Amazon are also complaining about receiving rotten product, and her response was: what do you want me to do.... I said there are other actions some companies take that are much more customer service focused then basically just taking the lot numbers. She asked me like what.....I said, well some companies might offer to get back with the customer once they contact Quality Assurance, some companies might offer free product to make the customer happy, some companies might at least provide lot numbers of NON-ROTTEN product just to be helpful...she said that she had no intention of doing any of this. I told her that was fine, if losing customers is not a big deal to customer service, so be it....

Right in the front. Perfect.

If I could give a review on just the taste of the pieces that were whole enough to eat....my kitties and I would give it a 5-5, 5-5, 7-7 toes up!! That's with using 4 as a perfect score. One of my cats has 7 toes on each front paw. :) These are perfect for them and maybe more than I should spend on a fixed income but, compared to others, they're a great deal cheaper. ONLY PROBLEM... when more than half the pkg is completely chicken dust...it's really disappointing. I've been getting the smaller pkgs for a while to be sure they would like before investing in the bigger package. My kitties go koko puffs over them. Every night they wait for their "hide and seek treat" and I didn't dare forget to play with them or three, very large and heavy may I add, kitties would jump up on my bed and keep pull my covers down with every toe they posseSs until I'd give in and get up to hide their last snack before sleepies time. This became a really fun ritual. A little bit of fun hunting before settling down for the night. I love and trust these so much because I know this is the same food source that survivalists fill their shelters with. And you dont mess with the food of a survivalist. They are really serious about their chicken. They get a much larger quantity, of course, but the quality, or it used to be, is the same. This is real, wholesome chicken. Just like the kind grandma made for Sunday dinner. They even get the potatoes to go with it. just add water, seasonings and it's like grandma came to visit. I wanted to buy exactly what they used. Perhaps the pkg was just a little larger than I needed, and it wasnt a cheap snack, but a few of them showed me this and said it's the same stuff, just a much smaller package. I'm pretty sure even grandma wouldn't be smiling her sweet little smile if she got what I got before the bad was even half empty. But that's another story. By time I was halfway through the bag I noticed there were very few bite size pieces left. So I gave them the scrunched up chicken. That quickly turned to chicken dust as even those size pieces were an anomaly. My little hunters, they licked it up like, hey this is new. But kept waiting for their snack, like it was an appetizer ,whenit was turning out to be a sad joke. On me. Needless to say I had some very very unhappy kitties. And no sleep that night or the next few nights. They just didn't understand. They'd look at the bag, then wait expectantly for the game to start. For them it was like, o.k. you have the bag..I see it...u aren't fooling any of us, so where are the goods?? I felt like I was facing an angry mob at a family prison picnic ( if they were to have such things), and the hungry inmates (who are part of the real M.O.B. if you know what I mean...I'm Italian and they take their adopted family history very SERIOUSLY) and they want to know why you are holding out on them. The chicken dust just wasn't cutting it. I'm really glad I don't own a horse. Seriously though, I felt really bad. Not just because of all the money I wasted but because they got used to this fun little nightly ritual. So did I to tell the truth. It was kinda like playing Easter egg hunts with my kids again. Only I didn't have to keep reminding them because their treat was eat e n on the first round. So now Im stuck with a dilemma. I either have to find another company that has a similarly priced product, which is not that easy unless I believe all the new good info from my survivalist buddies about the U.S. changing their inspection protocols for any meats coming from China (or any country for that matter). That and all their combined knowledge, research and statistics showing me that there have been more issues with American made meat products and quiet internal recalls (that we rarely hear about because it never becomes front page news) in the past 4-6 years than there have been in all the other countries combined. Now I'll admit that some, (ok many) of these doomsday preppers and survivalist that you see on tv are pretty out there, with paranoid schizoid personality disorders, but these guys and gals are about as smart and down to earth as you can get. So trust me, as I trust them, they don't mess about their meat. So my alternatives are: Find a different product...one that is hopefully comparable in price and value. And taste of course. Find a different SELLER for the same product. As it seems its Amazon's packing practices that are creating chicken dust, Start buying in bulk the product my buddies buy. It's not cheap when you consider you need to buy it all in one shot, especially if you are on a fixed income... but it's definitely cheaper in cost per ounces etc, AND it's definitely real, human food you can eat/share if you ever have to "bug out" with your buddies ' Start making my own. Which I trust even less than a third world country to do properly, as I don't have anything to deep freeze meat with or honestly, even where to start. Or last, which my baby hunters will hate. Either get them used to chicken dust or find a totally different treat. There are some on the list that are obviously a nobrainer, for me anyway: I can't freeze dry meat. Not by myself or without really good helpers. The kind that do it and then include my name in the credits. Find a different product;. I've been looking. I've found one that could fit the bill that might actually be cheaper. Says it's made in U.S.A. but produce comes from China. This all comes down to trusting my nerdy statistical, researching doomsday buddies. I am inclined to believe their evidence. Convince my babies, chicken dust tastes good: NOT!! My only definite NO in the bunch Quit feeding/giving my furry babies this wonderful treat. If it only were as easy as that sounds.... Last, but not least, I think: Find a different seller for the same 100% Freeze Dried Chicken Breat meat. This sure would be easier if Amazon refunded either my money or better yet, sent me what I ordered gain BUT this time package it more carefully. There is a company out there, one I'm considering more than others is Whole life, those not in silver package which is being phased out. They now freeze dry ;) then vacuum-seal the package and last, put it in its own individual box. It's goes for 29.75, Amazon Prime for 10 oz. PureBites is 23.39 for 11.6 oz. . So for this option it's $6 more for 1.6 oz. Or maybe I should say it's 6.00 more for chicken bites that are actually chicken bites .themes two were found on EBay: One of the survivalist products is: Mountain House, 100 %freeze dried chicken cubes(made for human consumption) 44.95 for 17 oz. It comes in a big tub that can stay fresh for 25 years. Full of individual packets so u can just take out what you need. Another from eBay, Grandma Lucy's artisan cubed chicken is a meal mix with first ingredient chicken breast, organic, hormone band antibiotic free meat these are just like meals you could make yourself. Dogs formula has some potatoes carrots blueberries etc 68.39 for 10 pound bag. So I guess there are still options. I just thou :-) :) when I finally found this product, it was perfect and the cats loved it. So I'm starting all over again. Maybe if there are enough complaints about meat being dust they will do like whole life did. Vacuum seal their bags and put in a special box. Check, I would have been happy if they just hadn't put it in the same box as cat food, jars of stuff etc. It might have arrived looking like it should :/ Well happy hunting kjnolan

My cats love these healthy treats. Highly recommend. My neighbors cat is having trouble adjusting to the new treats but he does eventually eat them. This is my second bag and my cats endorse them.

Our cats and dog really enjoy these treats and I know that they're not full of additives and other gross ingredients that I can't pronounce. I have one cat that will grab the bag and try to drag it all over the house so he can find a way to break into it and get more treats.

Great for both dogs and cats. I crumbled the pieces in my hand for the cats. Both dogs and cats get this as their bedtime treat every night. Yes they are spoiled.

Very poor quality. There was more scraps than actual pieces of chicken.

This bag of chicken has turned RANCID!! Seller won't accept returns!!! Buyers Be AWARE!!! I received this bag of freeze-dried chicken on January 24 - 2 weeks ago today. I opened the big bag and portioned out chicken into 4 small sandwich bags and threw them into the cat treat box(air-sealed tupperware container). The big bag has been in the cupboard, ziplocked closed for 2 weeks. I noticed 5 days ago that one of my cats was experiencing some messy stools that could only be described as wet and sloppy and strong in odor. I also started to notice the freeze dried chicken has a raunchy oily smell to it. I looked through the big Pure Bites bag, and found a bunch of the chicken is turning orange. It's deteriorating into a messy, mushy, greasy wax. It smells horrible and it's so greasy, you get some on your hands and the rancid stink takes over the entire room. Each small bag of chicken has started turning rancid now, each of the small bags have some chicken that's in different stages of rancidity. I've taken pictures to warn others. I came on Amazon to return it and hopefully get this lot recalled or something? But, there are no returns. I spent over $100 on a big bag of rancid chicken and there is no option to get my money bag. ***BUYERS BEWARE*****

I have been purchasing this product for my cats since it came on the market (at least a decade ago). Some of the negative comments are not deserved. This is my 5 cents: - never buy the small bag or the cat variety (also small bag) b/c it contains junk quality/crumbs from the end of the packing/production line. Buy the big bags. I usually get 175 gr, sometimes 330. Consider how often you will use it b/c the more you open the bag the more you oxidize the content and spoil the product. It is raw after all. The bigger bags contain beautiful big pieces of chicken breast you just crumble them for a cat. - it does happen the product may arrives spoiled (wettish appearance and weird smell) as sharp pieces can perforate the bag in transport and thus oxidize for an undisclosed time. - yes, as you crumble the pieces you may find a small bone - well, it is a meat product, right? made in mass production, right? Can't possibly remove all the small bones. - it is ridiculously annoying Amazon does not offer self-managed return on pet food and one has to contact customer service and argue for a return/exchange. - I give 5 stars for quality, 4 start for often too high price, 1 star for amazon return policy on pet food.