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    Making It Work With Puppies And Babies

    in General Dog Discussion

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    I will start looking for new homes for the dogs now because I know the poor puppies will get rehomed anyway. It's a silly thing to do really. Stubbornness is one thing but unrealistic thinking is another. Does this potential new mum really understand the demands of a newborn, let alone 2??? Even with family support twins are hard work. Twin bubs and twin pups-- please. That's asking for trouble.

    I totally agree with this.

    I have two adult dogs and 9mo twins. I have to say you can't imagine how hard it is to have twins until you have two screaming newborns and only two hands.

    Dry Food.

    in Health / Nutrition / Grooming

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    Mine have been eating Royal Canin but my GSD has decided its awful and would rather starve to death than eat it. I have tried mixing it with other lovely goodies but she will just lick that off and leave the dry.

    I have a tub with 3/4 of a 15kg bag in it. It does have a weird smell to it and I am thinking that maybe it is a bit off? It was definately in date when I bought it. I got it because it was on special at Petbarn. They have eaten and devoured it before. It is stored the exact same way I store all my previous dry food.

    I am thinking that maybe I might have to chuck it out and start again but the thought of throwing away a hundred dollars kills me!

    You can return it and get a full refund. I did that with a 15kg bag (half eaten) of RC food a couple of years ago. Good brands have a palatability warranty :laugh:

    Dry Food Comparisons

    in Health / Nutrition / Grooming

    Posted · Edited by laffi

    twodoggies2001 I think you confuse "meal" with "by product".

    Meal just means that most of the water has been removed from the ingredient. Dry food that contains chicken meal and salmon meat as the first ingredients is the way too go :D

    Even though Artemis - Fresh Mix M/L Breed Puppy lists Chicken and Turkey as the first 2 ingredients, once the water is removed (this happens during the rendering process while making the dry food) these two drop in their position significantly.

    So the first true ingredients are:

    Chicken Meal, Salmon Meal,Pearled Barley, Whole Brown Rice, Oatmeal, Millet, Potatoes, Dried Egg, Tomato Pomace,Chicken Fat

    which, ingredient-wise, makes this dry food one of the best ones available in Australia.

    It does not mean your dog will go well on it. It just means that potentially your dog can do excellent on it.

    Hope that helps :)

    ETA: I feed prey-model diet and am not here to argue "what really is in pet food".

    Feeding Barf Without Offal

    in Health / Nutrition / Grooming

    Posted

    Good point ellz :laugh:

    Could you feed cooked offal? Surely cooked offal is better than no offal?

    Sure you can feed cooked offal. It just isn't as nutritious as raw. I think it's better to figure out the way to make your dogs eat offal (by introducing it cooked and cook less and less until they can it raw; or having it mixed with something they really love, like sardines for example) rather than trying to innovate with your own version of raw feeding with no or cooked offal.

    Hope that helps :( and good luck!

    Feeding Barf Without Offal

    in Health / Nutrition / Grooming

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    For the fussy ones, try a lamb heart, most will eat it without a problem. If the lamb heart is not accepted well then try to lighty cook / boil it and then wean back to raw, retain the juices to encourage them to eat it. As for liver it is usually the texture that they don't like.......you could start by lighty cooking it and then slowly weaning them back to complete raw and again retain the juices and use with the offal. It is what I do for baby puppies until they are able to eat large chunks of it without fussing over it.

    As for kidneys my guys are not fans of it and neither am I and you can forget the brains, I am not even going to go there.......... ;)

    We feed BARF and have for a few generations now but the only offal that we use is lambs fry and lamb heart (it is all I can cope with and the dogs love it).

    Hearts shouldn't be counted as offal; it's muscle meat :eek:

    I think if you want to feed 100% raw diet, it has to contain offal (liver/fry, kidney). If you cannot get your dogs to eat it, then I think feeding a good quality dry food is a far better option.

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