Best single-ingredient treats for Springer Spaniels

Good move cutting the shop-brand treats — most of them are padded with cereals, sugar, and preservatives that do nothing for your dog. The best treats are high in protein, low in additives, and appropriately sized. Single-ingredient options like dried meat or fish skin are usually the gold standard: short ingredient list, nothing to worry about. To point you to the right thing — how big is your Springer, any allergies or sensitivities I should know about, and what are the treats mainly for? Training, general rewards, or something else?

Perfect context, thank you. Recall training means you need something small, smelly enough to compete with squirrels, and low enough in calories that you can use 20 or 30 in a session without guilt. What's your Springer's current weight — is she a healthy 20kg or carrying a little extra? And is she on any specific diet, raw, dry kibble, wet food?

Good — healthy weight on JWB means she doesn't need treats adding much calorically, just flavour and reinforcement. My recommendation is Forthglade Natural Treats 100% Chicken Liver. Single ingredient, air-dried chicken liver, nothing else on the label. They come in small pieces you can break down further if needed, they're intensely smelly which is exactly what you want for outdoor recall, and they're low enough in calories that a training session won't throw her diet off. Chicken liver is also naturally high in protein and B vitamins. At 20kg on a complete kibble, you can comfortably use them as her primary training treat without adjusting her meals much. Widely available on Amazon UK and most pet retailers.

Yes, in training quantities they're fine daily. The only thing to watch with liver specifically is that it's high in vitamin A, so you don't want to go overboard — but for recall training in normal sessions, you're well within safe limits. Keep treats to under 10% of her daily calories total and you'll have no issue. If you're doing very intensive training weeks, you could alternate with a plain dried chicken breast treat just to vary it, but for most owners training a couple of times a day, chicken liver daily is completely fine.

You won't miss it, and neither will she. One ingredient, nothing hidden — that's the whole point. Good luck with the recall work.