Good Boy is a British treat brand, and one of the few where a dog will usually take the treat first time without any coaxing. The range splits into named sub-ranges that are not obviously different from the packaging, so it is worth knowing which is which before you buy.
What separates the sub-ranges
Pawsley is the biggest part of the range and covers the softer, meatier things: chewy sticks, twists, fillets, strips and dumbbells, mostly in chicken, duck, lamb and beef. Bag sizes run from 80g up to 350g, so it is the range to buy from if a treat gets handed over most days.
Superlicious is the one with vegetables and fruit worked in, chicken with broccoli and sweet potato, duck with sweet potato, turkey with brown rice and cranberry. Sticks and bones, 70g and 100g. Crunchies are small, hard and cheap, sold in 54g bags. Bites are the 65g bags of small soft squares in chicken, duck or beef. Chewables are the rawhide-free sticks, sold in packs.
Training treats and evening treats are different things
For training you want something small, soft and quick to eat, so the dog swallows it and looks back at you rather than settling down to chew. The 65g Bites and the Mini Bites with cheese are the right shape for that, and a 70g bag will get you through a lot of repetitions.
For the treat that gets handed over at the end of the day, the bigger Pawsley sticks and fillets last longer and feel like more of an event. Buying a 320g bag of chewy twists and using them for training is an expensive way to teach a recall.
The rawhide question
The Chewables sticks are made without rawhide, and that is the reason a lot of people pick them. Rawhide chews soften as a dog works at them and can be swallowed in lumps, which is the part owners worry about. If that has put you off chews altogether, a rawhide-free stick is a reasonable way back in. Supervise any chew regardless of what it is made from.
When another brand suits you better
These are made treats rather than single-ingredient ones. If what you actually want is one thing and nothing else, dried tripe or an ear or a bone, this is not the range for it and no amount of reading the back of the bag will change that. Go to Paddock Farm or Thistlers instead, both of which do the natural, single-protein end properly.
Dogs on an exclusion diet for suspected food sensitivities should also give this range a miss until your vet says otherwise, because the ingredient lists here are mixed rather than single-protein.
How many is too many
The usual guidance is that treats should stay under a tenth of what a dog eats in a day, everything included. That goes quickly with a bag of soft chewy sticks, and it is the commonest reason a dog puts on weight without the owner changing the food. Weigh out the day's treats in the morning if you are not sure, and take the equivalent off dinner. If weight is already a live problem, speak to your vet and have a look at our weight control range.