Zolux Sweeties Expert Creamy Sticks for Dogs, Chicken & Salmon, 48 x 14 g

Zolux Sweeties Expert Creamy Sticks for Dogs are lickable sticks built on chicken and salmon in near equal measure, sold as the 48-stick counter display.

Key Benefits

• Zolux give the composition as chicken 18.2 percent, salmon 17.9 percent, starch
• The only one of the four where the second meat is a real share of the recipe rather than a flavour note
• Squeezed from a tube, not bitten: a wet, smooth paste rather than a biscuit
• 48 sticks of 14 g, each one sealed separately
• Made without added sugar, artificial flavouring or colouring, with over 95 percent of the recipe from natural-origin ingredients, according to Zolux
• The box front calls it ideal on a lick mat, which is the use it was designed around

Good To Know

• Ideal on a lick mat, says the box, and that is the use worth knowing. Spread one across the grooves and a four-second swallow becomes ten minutes of work.
• Three ways to serve one: squeezed straight from the tube as a hand-fed reward, run over the top of the bowl to make dull food interesting, or spread on a mat.
• What arrives is the shop counter display: an open carton with 48 sticks standing in it, each one sealed in its own tube. It is not a sealed retail box, so give it a shelf.
• Fish smells, and it carries on smelling on a lick mat left out in a warm kitchen. Wash the mat the same day rather than the next one.
• Wet and soft rather than crunchy, which makes it an easy treat for a dog that has given up on hard biscuits, and a messy one on a pale carpet.
• A creamy stick is a good place to lose a tablet. Check with your vet first that the particular medicine can go down with food - some cannot.
• The recipe is approved by a vet, according to Zolux, as something to give alongside the normal diet rather than in place of any of it.
• Count what you hand out. Forty-eight sticks go faster than they look, and a treat that is not counted is the usual reason a dog quietly puts on weight.