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Can anyone recommend a butcher or chicken shop that sells puppy mince/ dog mince (minced chicken carcusses) around the Essendon area. I have no problems getting it over here in the east but the owner of two of my ex foster puggies is having trouble finding it over her side of town.

Yep another vote for a crate. You can get wire ones like this.... http://www.trenigens.com.au/shop/crates.htm

I wouldn't feed either as both are full of fat and preservatives and can cause dogs to choke when they get soft. Why not give her a raw meaty bone instead? I found this...... http://www.urbananimal.net/pdf/issue9/3pet_treats.pdf '''Rawhides have little or no nutritional value except some are high in fat and kilojoules and many have excessive amounts of sugar, salt, questionable preservatives or ‘flavourings’. In addition, corn,wheat and soy flours which are used as filler in ground rawhide formed bones are three of the biggest culprits in food allergies'''

RAW bones. Who knows what they use, what is added, to dry those other ones with. Raw bones from non weight bearing areas are the best. ie. necks, ribs If the bone is from a non weigh bearing area the dog will be able to crunch it up lessening the risk of choking. Flaps are the ribs of an animal. I always supervise when my pugs have bones. Both to stop them having fights and just incase they do choke. I've never had a problem with bones in terms of choking it's chicken necks and chicken wings that have caused some stress. Every dog owner should know how to perform the Heimlich Maneuver on their dog, a few broken ribs is better then a dead dog, and how to do mouth to snout.

RIP poor boy. Glad that he spent his last days knowing someone cared for him.

OMG. How negligent of them. Hope your puppies come through this ok. If anything good come out of this it will make the rest of us check and double check anywhere we stay with our own pets.

Go with what your vet says. And yes if he does get worse take him straight there. Have you contacted your breeder about this?

Fresh fruit and veggies chopped up into small pieces.

Keep persisting. The pug pups I just fostered, from 7 weeks till 20 weeks, used to literally chuck tantrums when they wanted to be out of the pen. They would gab the bars in their mouths and shake the whole pen and move it across the floor. I used the pen for when I wasn't at home, when I wanted to eat in peace, as a place to feed them and for when it was bed time for them. Basically when I couldn't supervise them they were put in there with thier bed, water, toys and newspaper. All other times they would be out and about, more and more as they got older.

I'd be a bit worried about a vet that gives a 12 week old puppy cortisone. The discharge sounds like it could be conjuctivitus. I'm suprised the vet didn't give you some medicated drops for this. Try cleaning the eys with a warm moist tea bag. I have used chamomile tea bags before but others have used black tea bags. Remove all grains from your puppies diet. The chicken mince you are giving her must contain bone as well as meat. Chicken shops and alot of butchers sell minced chicken carcusses which they call puppy mince or dog mince.

Clean up the poo as often as you can. Tell him off when you catch him. Sometimes dogs will eat their own poo because they are missing a digestive enzyme in their stomach so the food that goes into them comes out pretty much the same so they think ohh yummy second time around. Vets are able to test for this lacking enzyme and you can buy digestive enzyme capsules, which you break and sprinkle the powder over the dogs food, from health food shops. Does the chicken mince you are feeding contain bones? If not then you are feeding incorrectly and the bone to meat ratio your dog is getting is all out of whack which can lead to massive growth problems, Go and get some minced chicken carcusses, sometimes called puppy mince or dog mince, and feed raw. None of this cooking.

Have heard of other puppies getting this. Often because their milk/food goes down the wrong way and gets into their lungs instead of their tummies. Keep up with the antibiotics and the chest clearing exercises. When are you to see the vet again?

Give her a break she is still a puppy at 6 months and if you have only just gotten her then there is even more reason to cut her some slack. Take her out every hour, after she has eaten, after she has had a big play, after she has woken up from a sleep, to the place you want her to toilet and tell her 'go to the toilet go to the toilet' when she does make a big song and dance over it and reward her with a treat. If you currently have paper or puppy pads down inside remove them as they will confuse her into thinking that she can toilet inside. They key is to constantly take her outside.

I think that most pounds would do a C5 vaccination before release. Pounds have no idea of vacciantion records so assume dogs are unvaccinated and treat them as such. The people who believe that we shouldn't vaccinate at all will say that your dog will have lots of problems with being over vaccinated. I myself believe that vaccinating is safer then not to and still choose to do so every year and any rescue that comes in that we don't have a clue of it's current vaccination I am more then happy when they are vaccinated, even if this means they may have been done by whomever thier previous owner was just recently. But I suppose if you lost your dog you would never know if it did have any side effects of over vaccination.

Ohh that would hurt and burn.

To stop him licking he needs and elizabethan collar so he can't get to it. You can get them at any vets. If you don't stop him licking he will continue to irritate the area. Bath the spot in warm salty water and dry it then get some Curash Powder, if it's really wet and yucky, or Curash ointment, if it doesn't need drying out that much. Curash is used for nappy rash and can be bought at supermarkets and chemists. If it doesn't seem to be healing in the next few days go to the vets.

Put it through the food processor, much easier. The theory is that whole veggies and fruit can't be digested by dogs because they can't literally chew them enough to break up the celloulose walls. If we do that part for them by mashing them up by putting them through the food processor or juicer or anything else that makes them into slop then they can get the nutrients out. This is how I make my veggie & fruit slops. Lasts two months if I am only feeding my two puggies. BARF SLOPS INGREDIENTS & METHOD Things I always include: - container of alfala spouts - bunch of spinach (roots cut off) - 1 to 2 green capsicums (stalk cut off & seeds out) - 1 to 2 red caspsicums (stalk cut off & seeds removed) - bag of carrots - bunch of celary - 4 zuccinis - 3 to 4 oranges (peeled) - 1 pumpkin (seeds removed) - 2 to 4 apples (pips taken out) - 2 to 4 bannanas (peeled) - 8 to 10 eggs (whole including shell) - flaxseed oil (approx 250mL) - kelp (approx 100g) What else you can put in: - bunch of silverbeet - turnip - squash - sweet potato - 2 to 4 pears - half to 1 pinapple - brussel sprouts - brocoli - cauliflower - bag of beans - Apple Cider Vinegar - Vitamin C Chop up then process up in blender/food processor so that things turn to slops. Put each blender batch into a big bucket. Usually leave the eggs & flaxseed oil for things that don't blend very well like the pumpkin and carrots. Ingredients should fill up a bucket. Mix bucket with big ladel till all mixed through then put into take away containers & freeze untill needed.

She looks fine. I think the problem these days is people see to many fat dogs and think that fat is how a dog should look. It's very sad. I would get rid of the tinned food and add things like bones, chicken necks and sardines instead.

Get her off all grains!!!!! This would included the current food she is on. Change her over to bones and raw food. Does she have a funny yeasty like smell? If so I can guarantee you that it's from a grain overload. It will take a while for her body to detox once she is onto a different diet so in the mean time to provide her with some relief you can use a human antihistamine such as Claratyne once daily (1/4 for her size) to help relieve some of the itching. Try a less harsh shampoo such as one that contains Evening Primrose Oil

Hope the laxatives work. Poor bugger wont know himself. I shouldn't laugh but I was looking after a puggy with stomach cancer and as a result of the cancer he had diarrhoea, he was able to control it and ask to go outside when he needed to toilet. But when he actuall went it was like big gush, my father named him Karcher Butt after those high pressure hoses. Lets hope your boy develops a Karcher Butt to flush out the blockage. Ohhh that's not good to hear about his prostate but seriously go ahead with desexing him, bad for you if he is a great show doggy and produces great offspring but if it saves his life then who cares. If he is healthy otherwise he will be absolutley fine being desexed at 7. In rescue dogs that are much older are desexed, everyday, with no problems at all. More raw veggies that have been put through the food processor. Alfalfa, spinach, carrot, apple, bannana, zuccini etc.

Poor baby. His food had no where to go. What sort of bones do you feed? Might be an idea to switch over to softer ones that are from the non weight bearing parts of the body. Also you could add some sardines or oils like flaxseed or Omega 3. And maybe some more food processed veggies.

When my boy was sick he only threw up once or twice a day and went to the toilet normally but his poo was runny. He actually refused any treats (which is very un pug like) and I had to cuddle with him for about half an hour to make him stop shaking at one particular time.

There has been a gastro going around lately. Could be this. My puggy boy had it about two weeks ago and was very un puggy whilst he was sick. What area are you in?

How long has this been going on for? What do you feed him?

'Grains' does not equate to 'carbs'. Beans are also high in carbohydrates, as are potatoes. Fruit is also another source of high carbohydrates. Reccommeded veggies & fruits for BARF diets contain less then 10 grams equating to carbohydrates per 100 gram portion of the food. Many of them have less then 5 grams of carbs per 100g gram portion. Whereas Cereals/grains such as white pasta contains 70.3 grams of carbs per a 100 gram serving and white rice 79.1 grams of carbs per 100 gram serving. Potato is not a recommended food to be feed to dogs, because they are high in carbs, but saying that it a pale skinned peeled raw potato contains 13.8 grams of carbs per per a 100 gram serving so is much much less then most cereals and grains. The beans that are high in carbs are the more oriental ones such as lima and kidney and lental. The common green bean, which is used in BARF feeding contains 2.4 grams of carbs per 100 gram serving.