It's a dog, dog, dog, dogworld

by **mickbayne** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:32:29

The B1G Piece wrote:Try pumpkin, it worked for both of our boxers when they get indifferent about food.

+1 but make sure it's plain pumpkin and not pumpkin pie filling. The cans are usually very similar.

by **JUburton** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:35:37

I've always been hesitant to try something like that lest she refuse to eat the kibble without the pumpkin in the future. Do your dogs just go back to the kibble no problem after having that nice bonus on top?

by **Uncle Milty** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:42:39

Be very careful with the amount of pumpkin, especially if she's usually loose. Once threw away a crate and an area rug after feeding a constipated dog too much pumpkin.

Mine gets stubborn about eating sometimes too. The hunger strike is usually over a disagreement in the amount of attention she receives. A little bit of scrambled egg primes the pump every time. She goes back to eating normally after. The other routine snack she gets is carrots which will also usually work if put in her dish. A few drops of oil worked with previous dogs but that might loosen the stool further.

What kind of snacks and people food? This one gets almost zero dog treats. Carrots are #1 followed by completely plain popcorn.

Dog before this one occasionally ate grass but never got sick. Seemed to stop when she got the crunchy part of romaine lettuce a couple times a week.

by **The B1G Piece** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:44:29

JUburton wrote:I've always been hesitant to try something like that lest she refuse to eat the kibble without the pumpkin in the future. Do your dogs just go back to the kibble no problem after having that nice bonus on top?

Yes, it's normally a careful introduction and stabilize the dogs eating / bowel movements and then slowly weening off.

by **mickbayne** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:50:12

JUburton wrote:I've always been hesitant to try something like that lest she refuse to eat the kibble without the pumpkin in the future. Do your dogs just go back to the kibble no problem after having that nice bonus on top?

Yeah mine's fine with that. He usually gets "special food" (aka regular food topped with something like pumpkin, carrots, green beans, wet food, etc.) about once every couple of weeks. Or when he's at my parents' house my mom spoils him always adds extras lol. He's still mostly fine with regular food but does get finicky and do the grazing thing sometimes.

Sometimes when he has diarrhea I'll withhold at least one meal and then start him back up with a mix of rice and boiled ground chicken. A few meals of that usually gets him back to normal.

by **heyeaglefn** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:51:38

I switched my 11 year Golden to a raw diet about 3 years ago and she acts like a young pup. If she isn't feeling good we give her sweet potato only for a day to help clear up her digestion.

by **azrider** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:52:09

THIS is the distressing moment a guard dog chases and savages a schoolboy who had allegedly been pelting him with bricks.

The terrified boy, who is believed to be around seven or eight years old, can be seen sprinting away from a giant Alaskan Malamute which catches up to him and grabs his right arm.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12151074/guard-dog-savages-boy-threw-bricks-china/

don't throw rocks at doggo.

by **JUburton** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:52:22

Her human food is basically zero now. Her treats are almost exclusively those mini milkbones. We never fed her a lot but I'd always throw her a small piece of kale or a pinky nail sized piece of chicken at dinner and even that stuff has stopped. Vet said greens are probably hard to digest and not the best which is a shame because she's a total weirdo and absolutely loves greens. We'll still let her finish a yogurt cup's remnants from time to time because she's also a dairy fiend.

But really we're quite happy with her poop schedule and her consistency...it's just the hunger strikes now.

by **Uncle Milty** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:57:18

If her growth has slowed it could be simple as needing less.

by **jamiethekiller** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:57:29

heyeaglefn wrote:I switched my 11 year Golden to a raw diet about 3 years ago and she acts like a young pup. If she isn't feeling good we give her sweet potato only for a day to help clear up her digestion.

this guy on our block would feed his giant pitbull like dogs raw chicken everyday. bones and all. it was wild. dogs looked like a cartoon bodyguard.

by **heyeaglefn** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 13:24:39

jamiethekiller wrote:
heyeaglefn wrote:I switched my 11 year Golden to a raw diet about 3 years ago and she acts like a young pup. If she isn't feeling good we give her sweet potato only for a day to help clear up her digestion.

this guy on our block would feed his giant pitbull like dogs raw chicken everyday. bones and all. it was wild. dogs looked like a cartoon bodyguard.

Yeah my dog doesn't eat raw like that, I get a product that has the bones grinded up in the meat, not sure her teeth could handle hard bones. It really does make a difference though.

by **CalvinBall** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 13:27:55

this thread is discriminatory against cat owners

by **Slowhand** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 13:32:28

CalvinBall wrote:this thread is discriminatory against cat owners

by **Uncle Milty** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 13:35:52

Cats are the GOP of the pet world

by **azrider** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 13:45:47

Uncle Milty wrote:Cats are the GOP of the pet world

by **JUburton** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 14:11:18

Uncle Milty wrote:If her growth has slowed it could be simple as needing less.

Princess is eating her breakfast now after I put some kibble in a wobble toy to play with. I think she's maybe just bored and hates workdays. Same, dog.

by **Uncle Milty** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 14:13:26

It's so cute you named her after Tupay

by **JUburton** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 14:17:45

Well her name is Penny but she's acting like a gd princess right now

here she is in all her glory: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7dSFoevLSjpUQcJAA

by **Bucky** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 15:33:20

sounds like she doesn't even have a credit history

by **swishnicholson** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 15:44:40

Slowhand wrote:
CalvinBall wrote:this thread is discriminatory against cat owners

All this talk of poop is reminding me once again why I'm a cat person. Much more manageable. There are actually days that go by when I give no thought to my cat's poop at all. Don't think you can do that with a dog.

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