nhg
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Post by nhg on Aug 28, 2014 14:59:03 GMT
Do you feed your dogs the expensive, high end dog food? The advertising these days make it seem like you're cruel and a bad dog owner if you don't. I have to say that with four big dogs we just can't afford that and we've never fed our dogs expensive food regularly. Not the cheap crappy stuff, either, just middle of the road brands that we can get at Wal-Mart. And we've never had a dog that died before it's time. They've all been old and had typical older dog illnesses. The youngest dog we've had pass away was ten years old. Occasionally we did try the more expensive stuff but didn't notice that the poos were much smaller as they claim. Our dogs are happy, busy, shiny and have very few vet visits other than their regular visits for shots, etc. We also don't have issues with their teeth, they stay clean and in good shape. The one dog that we did have issues with for his teeth was my mom's bichon/shi-tsu that we inherited. She used to feed him Little Ceasar wet food and milk and slices of Mars bar as a treat. He was very overweight when she passed away and was only three years old. He ended up with diabetes and we had to get his teeth taken care of twice. He still lived to twelve years old, though, and was blind and had had diabetes for years by that time. And he was still pretty spunky. |
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Post by lorddaxter on Aug 28, 2014 16:09:06 GMT
I'm a bit of a dog food purist, mainly because I had a gsd with stomach issues that were only solved by feeding a raw diet, so my feeding regime for my dogs is not cheap, but in saying that all their teeth are like brand new and touch wood aside from canagans seizure issues my dogs are healthy.
I'd love to be able to feed a dry food and have on a few occasions tried various high end brands and even dried raw, but they all got either upset tummies or smelled bad so I went back to raw, maybe if you start with kibble it's ok, now their tummies are conditioned!
My cat is on a canadian high end brand dry food but I'm swithering at switching him too, his poop smells, bad, I find when on raw the poop had less or no odour, no kidding.
IMO feed what you can afford, do though check what the first ingredient listed on the bag is, if it's grain, chuck it, it's garbage, sometimes clients bring their dogs with the food and I refuse to feed it if it's crap, I'll use stuff I keep here, I can't help it, I never give them those Caesar cartons, I tell them to take that crap home or I throw it out, so bad for them, LOL!....guess I'm a bit of a tyrant, owner why they come back?!
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Post by horselover4life on Sept 2, 2014 14:51:02 GMT
Just saw this....
My dogs use to eat Purina Dog Chow and thrived upon it. We don't know what happened actually but one of my dogs started to chew their foot pads off from a allergic reaction to something..only thing that changed was a new bag of food that we knew of. Could the dog have been stung or walked through something, possible but we could not see or find anything.
So my vet said off of that and to go to Purina One Lamb & Rice...formula, mixture and ingredients never changes, period. Ever since then that is what mine eat and do well on it...they love it, look like they love it and it {food} loves them!!
I don't need the "higher" end food for working dogs with super protein levels and all the other stuff put in....
My dogs are pets...they eat what is good for them and that they do good on.
I don't feed "wet" food unless it is my table scraps, not from a can unless from the vet because the dog is sick...my dogs teeth are shiny, white, healthy gums and sweet good smelling breath. I like it that way!
I know there are many who say such bad things about Purina and their products... interesting enough is how many feed their subsidiary brands and say great things not realizing it is Purina as the parent company.
I hear negative about most brands and diets...
I think that if you find something that works, stop looking and use it.
My only other tidbit is don't buy any food product made in China, Japan or countries that have terrible regulations.
If they don't govern what goes into their human food, baby or adult, they surely don't govern, watch nor care what goes into pet products of food, treats or toys!!
jmo...
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Post by nhg on Sept 2, 2014 16:23:56 GMT
We often feed Purina One, too. We like to changer their food sometimes because Amigo gets sick of it and then I have to convince him to eat. The other dogs will eat his if he doesn't so it's important that he eat it when he gets it. We do give them table scraps sometimes but always in with their food. Well, I do, my husband is the sneak that feeds them from the table or while he's making something.
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Post by mingiz on Sept 4, 2014 4:42:55 GMT
I been feeding mine Kibbles & Bits. They like it and have never had any issues with it. Sweet pea used to get Mighty dog wet food. But when I loss the job she just got the dry food. I do give them table scraps like chicken and beef. No pork as it gives them diarrhea. They love when we have t bones. They get to have the bone. Never had any issues with that either.
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Post by horselady on Sept 5, 2014 0:21:31 GMT
I fed my 12 rotties and german shepard joy maintenance , by the 50 pound bag. and canned meat. pedigree.
now that i am down to two corgies and one chorkie , kibbles and bits, and mostly cooked chicken or beef. , i also give them venison that a friend has given us and if too long in the freezer than it becomes dog food.
again, no food from china, japan or made outside the usa.
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Post by hugs on Sept 5, 2014 2:31:50 GMT
Beneful is fun if you like rainbow colored poos. Yeah we feed an expensive dog food but we don't feed it because its expensive, we feed it because it came highly recommended by someone I trust who raises Golden Retrievers professionally and the food we had chosen for a similar reason wasn't working out well anymore. It was a natural progression in our ongoing responsibility to do the best by our furry, four legged son and seeing how he does, ruling out confounding factors and all the rest.
I know for myself I can live on less quality food than I eat. I sure the heck know I can live better on less food, but I'm not willing *blush* Its a personal choice all the way around.
It would make my life alot easier if I could live on dog food.
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Post by nhg on Sept 5, 2014 14:19:16 GMT
Oh  , you make me laugh!
My daughter has our pitbull Chloe now. She has a rescue dog that was behaving badly so Chloe is living with her being the friend for her dog which has really improved her behaviour. She lives in the basement suite of our home so Chloe and Sammie come upstairs to visit often. Amigo, Brodie and Bella seem to be a perfect group. They all play together or two will play. Usually Bella and Brodie. The two of them are totally in love. In the mornings he lies across her front feet and she carefully cleans his ears. They often snuggle together and even snuggle with Amigo. I'm so glad everyone gets along.
Back to the subject. I recently read a book about a veterinarian and her cancer battle. She was talking about her cases in the book and discussed feeding a raw diet. Dogs on raw diets can carry salmonella in their mouths. Her patient was a golden retriever that was a therapy dog that visited hospitals but wasn't allowed to once she was on a raw diet in case she passed salmonella on to the people she was visiting so the owner took her off of it. The vet did say that the dogs have a much nicer coat when they're on the raw diet. |
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Post by diamondgirl on Sept 9, 2014 0:35:22 GMT
Beneful is fun if you like rainbow colored poos. Yeah we feed an expensive dog food but we don't feed it because its expensive, we feed it because it came highly recommended by someone I trust who raises Golden Retrievers professionally and the food we had chosen for a similar reason wasn't working out well anymore. It was a natural progression in our ongoing responsibility to do the best by our furry, four legged son and seeing how he does, ruling out confounding factors and all the rest. I know for myself I can live on less quality food than I eat. I sure the heck know I can live better on less food, but I'm not willing *blush* Its a personal choice all the way around. It would make my life alot easier if I could live on dog food. My daughters dog ate a box of crayons and had rainbow poop. I also saw on facebook last night, (actually my daughter had posted it), about a capsule that would make your poop glitter, It said the capsule contained actual gold flakes. I think maybe $400.00 a pill, or something like that. I don't get on facebook very much. I have weird kids. |
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Post by hugs on Sept 9, 2014 0:58:12 GMT
Oh my goodness, gold glitter? Hey, but it does make me think of a GOOD idea for coloring poop... now if that's not a weird sentence but think of folks who live in town and walk their dogs after work in winter when its dark, the dog poops on the boulevard, but where?! Fluorescent poop! Now at this point I haven't really researched this yet, but poop that glows would really help folks out.
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Post by nhg on Sept 9, 2014 14:17:03 GMT
When my daughter was little I often had to pick up rainbow coloured dog poos. One time there was even a little cowboy sticking out of one. I'd bought her one of those package you used to be able to get with about a hundred tiny horses and cowboys in them.
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Post by hugs on Sept 10, 2014 1:39:50 GMT
Ngh, a cowboy, that is hysterical! Did you wash him off? I don't suppose.
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Post by nhg on Sept 10, 2014 1:46:35 GMT
No! It was funny because he was sticking out a bit and had one arm raised. It must have been nasty passing it.
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Post by hugs on Sept 10, 2014 2:56:34 GMT
That is funny, shoulda taken a picture of that  |
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Post by mistersmom on Sept 10, 2014 13:21:34 GMT
The first time my BIL met my cat he (the cat) has Christmas tinsel sticking out his rear. Of course now I know better than to use the stuff.
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Post by nhg on Sept 10, 2014 14:07:21 GMT
You just reminded me. My mom's bichon/shi-tzu that we later inherited had been chewing a rolled up rawhide when she was still alive and had him. They were at the park and he was trying to 'go' and she saw that he had a piece of it sticking out of his rear. So she took a Kleenex and got ahold of it and pulled. It turned out he had the whole thing in him and she pulled about two feet of it out and he was screaming by the time she was done. He never got another one after that.
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Post by mistersmom on Sept 10, 2014 14:37:51 GMT
oh I'd be afraid to pull, especially something like that!
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Post by lorddaxter on Sept 10, 2014 15:38:09 GMT
I pull kids socks out of dogs asses all the time here!
I did have a condom once too, still have a pic somewhere, I show the owners incase something happens later lol!
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Post by horselady on Sept 10, 2014 18:42:11 GMT
smileys-smiley-with-sign-100241how horrible for the dogs. , eek.
i had a black lab that chewed cell phones and tv remotes. and i am sure he expelled the parts some where on the farm smileys-dogs-171634
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Post by hugs on Sept 10, 2014 21:59:53 GMT
We don't feed rawhide chews anymore because our vet said that they aren't digestible. But goodness sakes, that poor little doggie but who would of guessed it would be so long in there?!
I do like the tinsel one, that's pretty cute and festive.
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, you make me laugh! 
