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Only 8 posts and ranting already :laugh:

I gave her a small bit with roo meat, which is yuk to handle, and a couple of necks for brekky, and she scoffed it down! wouldn't leave the bowl. So i am toying with which meat, will see if i can get a better price on roo meat, what is 'Leonards" ?

Thank dog he is home, i reckon your hard work with the posters paid off, someone had him. Wonder if they pinched him ? Can you go back on hols? :laugh:

I was about to ask about roo meat too :laugh: I bought a bag of VANS today to try on my BT, and the shop suggested roo meat, rather than chicken to go with it, so i bought their roo rolls, as they said they had no preservatives in. Does it contain preservatives if i dont buy it in rolls? Its pricey at $5 a 800grm roll as she has 395grms each meal .

I bought a bag of VANS today for my bully to try first.( Sensitive) I have mixed it up ready, smells yuk, but will see what she thinks :laugh: , my main concern is what meat to use aswell. Petstock got me to buy their roo all natural roll, as they said it had no preservatives in, does that mean if i buy roo meat it normally has them in? Its just a bit pricey at $5 for 800grms, if i move all 3 dogs onto it.

Thinking of you just checking in again

Perhaps you could push the lifeguard to working dog rescue? they may have something.

Lets hope the little tyke went for a wander and is safe with someone overnight and will turn up somewhere tommorrow. You probably won't sleep much tonight.

I think hubby could be right, i find 3 more than enough Bull breeds count as more than one as they are not easy! Glad he made rescue anyway.

I wish i was nearer to help search, so sorry, good luck

Just a tip, i buy my Advocate on line, saves about $40 a packet, try ebay, the power sellers. Also, alot of the premuim foods like Proplan and Advocate give you a bag free after you have bought 10 bags, makes the price per bag much better, check my petstock does it.

OT Shewolf, but did you add that extra member? forgot what thread it was to go and check. :D

Its hard isn't it when they go, but i always say, if they can go somewhere where they get a better life than with me, you have to let them go. Don't base your decision on wether you will get to see him, it might be worse seeing him, and for him too. Take into account though he will have company more at a busy home, where will he be while the lifeguard works? alone at home alot, does he go out alot at night too? he may take him everywhere, but may also be left alot? all things to ask him.

You are doing a great job, and there are some wonderfu people here who will help you. If you are on a budget, you may find Proplan expensive, but you need to feed much less of the quality food than the cheap stuff, which poo's straight out the other end, so it works out ok.

The majority of my breed i see advertised as mature dogs have to go to one dog households, not fiction, fact.

There you go, perfect advice I was about to say one meal is not enough either, poor girl.

My BT looks scary, but if anyone actually came in it would be my cattle who would protect me. Very loyal, great with all other animals, even bunnies that run out in front of him being chased by a dally

I used to own a Weim, would be no good with chooks being a gundog, mine killed many bunnies and low flying birds. Cattle dog?

I would be using Advocate, and change her diet to no red meat, say chicken and rice, just very bland for a while, and keep using the malasab. I have had several BT's with bad skin, and plain food works best.

I think the issue here is more about breeders having large numbers of dogs, running a few on, but not socialising them, then rehoming them. And i don't think its just byb that do this, in fact its probably less likely to be them. I have had a mature dog from a breeder, not shown ,due to fault, but bred,twice, then after rehomed to me, and i can see exaxctly where the op is comming from. My girl jumped the first time a car drove past her, didn't know how to walk on a lead, and arrived with dry eye ( untreated). In my quest to find a mature dog, most said they had not been run with other dogs, so had to go to a home without dogs. I also know of several other friends who have bought other breeds as mature adults, and all have lived in kennels and needed to be shown the 'real world" for the first time.

Thankyou for all the advice, i am going to try the sensitive to start with my bully, she has started to have pink feet and lower legs again this week, and is knawing them. If it goes well i will switch the other 2 onto adult aswell. I always thought raw was best, but being a single mum, self employed ,3 dogs, cooking up veggies is just not on the agenda ,after a week or so i just give up

And they turn up on your doorstep when you are working telling you if you don't take it now its going to the pound, as they know you have something to do with rescue ( Then 2 months later have another dog, same breed, but a mini, so not destructive....apparantly, and now looking at breeding, so kids can see pups) And then there's the neighbour who turned up at the door wanting a good home for his dog too, but then wanted to know if he got the adoption fee when she was rehomed( after the rescue got her desexed, vacc's etc), and he drove a sports lexus!

So out of interest, when bloods are taken, are they tested for just anything and everything? And how expensive are they generally? I have never had any bloods done with my lot, never been offered, perhaps its something to think about.

He wasn't my vet, another from the practice, that i don't like, but had no choice, won't be using him again anyway.( another story!) So you think 5kgs, would be ok for 3 big dogs?. And then raw chicken mince, or necks ,wings? It was the sensitive skin one i was looking at for my BT.

I find the whole food debate mind boggling For years i fed Supercoat sensitive to my dally, after he had a blockage from stones. He has to be fed a low purine diet. I also own a bully, have owned several over the years, and they are prone to bad skin. I found feeding Advance chicken and rice dry, and chicken wings and necks has worked for them all. I do feed raw eggs most days too, might stop that one. I am an average owner, and its so confusing, i need a food good for my Dally, good for my BT's skin, not going to break the bank, and not time consuming ( boiling veggies etc) I was recently told by a vet not to feed raw wings and necks as they were full of salmonela, and i wouldn't eat raw chicken, so why give it to my dogs! Now i am completly confused, and just want to do the right thing. I just looked at the Vets All Natural, but its over $200 for a big bag then i have to buy mince ontop.