Group Class Treat Pouch Kit
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An adolescent dog in a room with five other dogs needs two rates of pay. There is the ordinary rate for things it can already do, sitting, watching you, walking three steps without leaning, and then there is the rate for the moment a dog walks past at four feet. This kit is a two compartment pouch that keeps those separate, beef liver for the first job and freeze-dried shrimp for the second, and a marker that lives on the hand already holding the leash. The rest of our kits are on the bundle guides hub.
The dog in the middle of the room
Eight months to two years, past the puppy class stage, in a weekly obedience or manners class where the hard part is no longer the exercise itself. Your dog can sit at home. It cannot sit while a spaniel it has never met stares at it from across a hall. What you are actually training in that room is the ability to disengage, and disengaging costs more than sitting does, so it has to pay more. Training treats and the pouch to carry them is the long version of that argument.
Pouch, liver, shrimp, clicker
The Alamo pouch is built around the split. Wildebeest describes it as a treat pouch with a magnetic snap closure for quick access, and says it has two separate, water resistant compartments for different treats or small personal items. Wildebeest also lists a strip of webbing across the top edge that works as a pull for opening it, and a daisy chain on the outside for poop bags. It comes with a detachable waist strap, or it clips to a belt or a pocket edge, and it is sold in six colors.
Beef liver goes in the larger compartment. One ingredient, beef liver, freeze-dried in small batches in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and shipped from us. The pieces come already broken into training sizes, and the texture is lightweight rather than greasy, so it does not leave a film on the pouch lining the way a soft commercial treat does. Three bag sizes, and the 3 ounce is usually right for a six week course.
Shrimp goes in the small compartment and stays there. Ours is whole raw shrimp, one ingredient, in a 1.5 ounce bag, and Wildebeest's water resistant divider is what stops that smell getting into everything else. The pieces are light and crunchy with no shells to pick out, which matters when you are handing one over without looking. Spend it on the dog that walks past, and nothing else. You can compare the rest of the range on the freeze-dried dog treats page or across the treats hub.
The FC-100 is the timing. Educator sells it as a finger worn clicker with a five inch velcro strap and a crisp, consistent marker sound, in six colors. In a class the marker is doing something specific: it tells the dog which half second earned the shrimp, at a moment when your hands are full and your voice is competing with an instructor's.
The pouch and the marker are made by other people, which is why the box count is three rather than one. Wildebeest items are sold and shipped by Wildebeest through Shopify Collective, not made or shipped by Sniff and Shift. E-Collar Technologies items are sold and shipped by E-Collar Technologies through Shopify Collective, not made or shipped by Sniff and Shift. Both bags of treats are ours and travel together out of Malvern, so the tier you care most about arrives in one piece.
Left out on purpose
A third treat. Most tiered systems sold online run to three or four values, and by the time you are choosing between them mid exercise the moment has gone. Two is the number you can actually operate with one hand.
No long line either. In a class you are on a standard leash inside a defined space, and a fifteen foot line belongs to the field work that comes after. Explore filters everything we carry if you want to see where that goes next.
Running the hour
Load the pouch before you leave. Liver in the big side, shrimp in the small side, clicker already on your finger, and the waist strap adjusted so the pouch sits on your non leash hip. Adjusting a strap in a parking lot with an excited adolescent is a poor use of five minutes.
In class, pay the ordinary work from the big compartment and keep the small one shut. It opens for one category of thing only: the dog choosing you over another dog. If you find yourself dipping into it for a sit, close it and reset, because the tier stops working the moment it becomes the default.
Rinse both compartments when you get home. Shrimp does not improve in a warm car overnight.
What it replaces
Two sandwich bags and a decision you have to make every time. People run tiers with bags in two pockets and it works, right up until the dog you needed to pay past is already lunging. A pouch with a divider and a magnetic closure turns that into one motion, and the shrimp stays shrimp rather than contaminating the liver in a shared bag.
Questions
Why not just use one high value treat for everything?
Because you lose the contrast. If shrimp pays for sitting, shrimp is no longer special when a dog walks past, and you have nothing left to spend on the only moment that was ever going to be hard.
Does the magnetic closure stay shut when the dog pulls?
Wildebeest describes the closure as magnetic for quick access rather than as a lock, so treat it as a lid, not a seal. If the pouch is going to get bounced around, use the compartment webbing pull to close it fully between reaches.
Can I use beef heart instead of liver?
Yes, and some dogs prefer it. Beef heart snaps into small pieces and reads milder than liver, which suits a dog that finds liver too much in a long session.
Related guides
The treat pouch tiers cluster covers the same setup either side of this stage.
