Yes. The main apartment-specific concerns — smell, crumble mess, and storage — are all manageable. The treat smell does not fill a room or linger in furniture; crumble cleanup is easy; and the resealable pouch stores in any cabinet. The strongest consideration is scent: if you do recall training indoors in a small apartment, the treat smell may be detectable to guests.
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The smell question for small spaces
A sealed bag of Stewart liver treats stored in a cabinet does not smell. Once the bag is opened and treats handled, the beef liver smell is present on your hands and briefly in the immediate area — it dissipates within a few minutes. It does not transfer to furniture or carpeting from brief handling.
The place where smell becomes relevant in a small apartment is during training sessions: if you are working on indoor recall or extended training in a 600-square-foot space, the treat smell will be noticeable to anyone in the apartment. Most people find it mild; some find it unpleasant. The simplest management is to pre-break your session's worth of treats into a small sealed container before starting, which limits how long the bag is open.
Crumble and mess management
Freeze-dried treats produce a fine powder as pieces break during handling. This crumble can fall onto floors and furniture surfaces during training. On hard floors, a quick sweep handles it. On carpeted areas, the crumble may need vacuuming if significant accumulation occurs during long sessions.
Management: work on a hard floor surface when possible. Pre-break treats into a small container rather than reaching into the bag repeatedly during sessions — this concentrates the crumble to one opening event rather than throughout the session. A small mat or towel under your feet during training catches most fallout and is easy to shake out.
Storage in limited space
The 16oz resealable pouch is roughly the size of a large chip bag — it fits in any pantry, drawer, or cabinet without special storage requirements. The seal is reliable enough that surrounding items in the same cabinet do not pick up the smell. Do not store in the refrigerator (unnecessary and takes up food storage space) or in a car (temperature fluctuations affect quality). A regular pantry shelf or kitchen cabinet is ideal.
Indoor training in small apartments
Apartment dogs often have less access to large training spaces and may do most of their training indoors. Freeze-dried liver's high value is especially useful here: indoor distractions (other people in the apartment, sounds from neighboring units, visual distractions) require treats motivating enough to compete with the environment. Lower-value treats lose effectiveness in high-distraction indoor spaces; high-value liver treats maintain engagement.
For recall work in particular, the scent-driven motivation of liver treats helps a dog in a small apartment learn to orient toward you reliably even when distractions are present — a skill that pays off outdoors later.
Multi-dog apartments
Using high-value treats with multiple dogs in a small space can create competitive or resource-guarding situations. Management strategies: train dogs separately (one dog in a room, the other occupied elsewhere); use the same treat for all dogs to prevent differential excitement; work with a trainer if resource guarding around treats is present — this is a behavior issue to address directly rather than manage around.
The crumble aspect of these treats can also be a social eating point: scattering crumble on a lick mat for each dog creates a simultaneous, low-competition enrichment activity that occupies multiple dogs at once without requiring separate training sessions.