Lucky Molly got to try the small-medium Scooby Snacks for me to review. The ones for medium-large dogs got the paws-up sign as they all got gobbled up. Since she's a medium dog (Lab mix), I got the small-medium box also, to see how well the medium dogs do in the 'overlap' zone there between the two sizes of biscuits.

Surprisingly, these aren't just smaller versions of the medium-large biscuits. These are different shapes all together, and one of the flavors is different! Instead of bacon, you get pizza flavor in this size. It's a 1.25" circular reddish-brown pizza with eight slices. Cute. In this box, chicken flavor is a yellow drumstick-shaped biscuit that is 1.75" long and just under an inch wide at the meatiest part of the drumstick. Beef flavor is a dark brown bone-shaped biscuit that says "ZOINKS!" and is 1.75" long and about 3/4" wide at its widest part. And the fourth flavor is cheese, an orange triangle piece of Swiss (judging by the three divots representing holes) that is 1.25" on each side. These biscuits are roughly half the size of the medium-large Scooby Snacks biscuits. The pizza wheel is about 3/4 the size of a medium-large biscuit.

I like these Scooby Snacks because they are small enough that my 3 year old daughter can actually push them through the dog's wire door on the crate at night when she's "giving Molly her bones" to tuck her in. When you're trying to keep your 3 year old from stalling any more than necessary to get into bed herself, every little bit helps.

I also like that these treats are completely dry--they help crunch the tartar off my dog's teeth so that I don't have to chase her around with a toothbrush or schedule as many dental scrapings at the vet's office (they're not cheap). I'm sure the treats break up the monotony of the dry dog food she gets every day (if they care as much about that as we do). At least I have fun giving her different flavors; it makes ME feel good. Not that she knows who Scooby is.

These do have real meat in them, although those ingredients are down the list and therefore not major ingredients. Topping the list is ground wheat and grain sorghum, then meat by-products (that could be anything from intestinal linings to eyelids, who knows?), animal fat, salt, beef and bone meal, animal plasma, beef, chicken, potassium sorbate (used as a preservative), dried cheese product (what exactly does that mean?), caramel color, natural smoke flavor, artificial pizza flavor, guar gum, yellow 5, minerals, vitamins, yellow 6, red 40.

It says on the box that you should not be feeding these as the sole diet, but then hopefully you have a brain!!!

Inside the box is a Scooby Doo dollar (either a $1, $3, or a $5). You can use them to buy *free* Scooby Doo stuff like travel mugs, dog toys, and coloring boxes. The cheapest *free* thing is $5 Scooby dollars, and everything is $1.99 shipping and handling. The odds are 1 in 20 that you'll get a $5, 1 in 5 that you'll get a $3, and 1 in 1.33 that you'll get a $1. I wouldn't rush out and buy these Snacks for the *free* Scooby stuff.

For $2/box (1.5 pounds), they're a decent deal. You won't get as many biscuits at that price as you would if you bought generic biscuits, but these are fun to feed. With 11% minimum crude protein, 5% minimum crude fat, and 4% maximum crude fiber, I suppose you could make a case that there is some nutrition in them. And there is a LITTLE real meat in there. . . somewhere. . . Molly likes them anyway.

Recommended: Yes