Stella & Chewy's Freeze-Dried Raw Bac'n Me Crazy Recipe Wild Weenies Dog Treats

Stella & Chewy's Bac'n Me Crazy Recipe Wild Weenies Freeze-Dried Dog Treats

We've read all seven Wild Weenies ingredient lists this week and found three where the name doesn't match what's inside. This one checks out completely.

Bacon really is the first ingredient

Here's the whole list, all nine items:

1. Bacon
2. Farm-Raised Pork
3. Pork Liver
4. Beef Liver
5. Beef Kidney
6. Beef
7. Sodium Alginate (the binder)
8. Natural Bacon Flavor
9. Mixed Tocopherols (preservative)

Two things stand out. Bacon leads, as actual bacon rather than a flavoring... a lot of bacon treats are chicken with smoke flavor on them. And all six meat ingredients sit ahead of the binder, which is the best structure of any Wild Weenies recipe. Stella's Game Bird and Red Meat versions both put their secondary meats behind the sodium alginate.

Stella's claim is 95% bacon, red meat and organs, and unlike some of their bullets this one tells you the truth: there's pork and there's beef, and they say so.

Two species, and they're both named

Pork at positions one, two and three. Beef at four, five and six. Four organ components between them: pork liver, beef liver, beef kidney.

So this isn't a single-protein treat, but nobody is being misled about it. If you're avoiding pork or beef, it's out... and if you need a single species, Stella's lamb, beef or chicken Wild Weenies are the ones that qualify.

Two things that are different about this recipe

It's the only Wild Weenies with an added flavor. Natural Bacon Flavor sits at position eight. The other six recipes are meat, binder and preservative with nothing else. Not a problem... just worth knowing it's there, given bacon is already the first ingredient.

Bacon is a cured meat. Stella doesn't publish a sodium figure for these and we're not going to estimate one. If your dog is on a sodium-restricted diet for any reason, that's a question for your vet before you buy, and it applies to this recipe specifically rather than to the Wild Weenies line.

Worth noting too: the fiber maximum here is 1.5% where every other Wild Weenies recipe is 5%. A genuinely different formulation, not just a different meat.

Where it sits in the line

At 34% fat it sits in the rich half. A dog with a pancreatitis history, or one on a vet-prescribed low-fat diet, needs that vet's view first... the chicken Wild Weenies are the lean option at 26% fat and 13 calories a treat.

Rich treats are more motivating, which is the honest flip side, and bacon is about as motivating as a treat gets. If you need something that works through real distraction, this is it.

About the sodium alginate

A binder derived from seaweed, present in all seven Wild Weenies recipes. It gives these their shape and chew rather than being a crumbly chunk of meat.

Its position is how you read these labels: anything listed after it is present in a smaller amount than the binder. Here nothing animal falls after it, which is why this list reads as cleanly as it does.

Full ingredient list

Bacon, Farm-Raised Pork, Pork Liver, Beef Liver, Beef Kidney, Beef, Sodium Alginate, Natural Bacon Flavor, Mixed Tocopherols (preservative).

Reproduced exactly as Stella & Chewy's publishes it. Nine ingredients, and we've named every one.

Guaranteed analysis

• Crude Protein (min) ... 38%
• Crude Fat (min) ... 34%
• Crude Fiber (max) ... 1.5%
• Moisture (max) ... 5%

Calorie content

14 kcal per treat ... 4,760 kcal/kg

How many to give

Stella publishes no treat count and no dog-size guidance for Wild Weenies. The general rule is to keep treats to around 10% of daily calories, and the published per-treat figure makes that workable... ten of these is 140 calories, most of a small dog's treat allowance for a day. Your vet can tell you your dog's daily number.

Also on the label

Grain free, with no corn, wheat or soy. Stella doesn't print a pea-free, lentil-free or potato-free statement on any Wild Weenies recipe... what we can tell you is that none of those three appears anywhere in this nine-item list.

Sizes

3 oz and 11 oz.

Storage and serving

Shelf-stable, no refrigeration needed. Break pieces down for a small dog and give with fresh water nearby. Supervise, as with any treat.

On the label statement

Stella publishes no AAFCO statement for this product, and no "for intermittent or supplemental feeding only" line, which is what you'd normally expect on a treat. Its absence doesn't make it a complete food. Ask us if you want it confirmed off the bag.

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