What do you feed your dog?
 

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Watch out for the grain fillers or you'll have an obese dog on your hands.

http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/animals.htm

Do you really know what’s in your pet’s food? (scroll down for video)

http://www.healthypetnet.com//Health...lname=10042285

Vets are just like most MDs... There to keep you/your pet sick, and get rich while doing it.

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Purina, Been feeding Purina for 40 years at least. I put a little left-overs on top. My hounds are VERY healthy. Never had a problem.

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We feed our animals CANIDAE

Top seven ingredients are :

Chicken meal
Turkey meal
Brown rice
White rice
Lamb meal
Chicken fat
Herring meal

Of course, our two seniors get added to this :
White rice
hotdogs (2)
butter (for their coats)
and if they are really lucky - some chicken if we have any left over from a meal

What can I say? They are spoiled.

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Our Great Pyrenees and Great Dane KNOW they are people. Like you we feed them whatever we have supplemented with fresh meat from a slaughterhouse a few miles away. They process our cattle, hogs and sheep. Good people.

All year round we get their trimmings.

When they go away they borrow our Great Dane to watch their house.

CC

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QWAK,My dogs I regard as my children:heart: :love: and because dogs are basicly hard wired to be in a PACK they regard and relate to me as the undisputed LEADER of the pack, providing for and to them all of their needs including the basics FOOD and WATER but also the DOMINENCE they need to be DOGS. :bowdown:

They get a taist of what ever I am eating usualy, plus dog biskets frequently because they are good for them and clean their teeth.:thinkey:

They have a FEEDER box always kept full of high protean dry food I buy at Walmart in 50.Lb bags and I try to maintain 100 Lb . or more always on hand and stored in a clean plastic garbage can with a tight fiting lid so it is both water proof as well as protected from incects and vernin.

From time to time I need to sort threw my caned goods and freezer when things are a year or two (MORE?) out of code THEY think they hit the MOTHER LOAD in FOOD! :minidancesmall: :marchmell :ARMS1: :banana: Lately they have been geting a can now and then of "CHICKEN ALA KING" that has been here since preps for the (00) situation that did not happen.:eating:

I don't OWN them, I provide and care for them and they are esencialy free to come and go as they please but CHOSE to stay as they know that they have both a good home and a GREAT LIFE ,at least by DOG standards!:proud:

ALL my dogs have been DUMPED and some how managed to find this place,often injured and both scared and starved yet percieve me as being both trustable and perhaps their last hope. :adore:

The LOVE and LOIALTY they demonstrait daily is more than enough fair compensation for what I give them.:shakehand

IF people could just be MORE like DOGS this world would be a MUCH BETTER PLACE!:albertein

the DUCK

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Gasilat,
I'm sitting here looking at you dog's twin. He also gets pretty much whatever he wants.

The "official" food is Purina Large Breed. He loves it. He also lives off of anything the 2 and 4-year old will give him, which tends to be a lot.

We tried supplementing his diet with a Jehovah's Witness that would not leave us alone, but he won't eat them any more. That last one gave him gas.

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:haha: :haha: :haha:

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that's a pretty bold statement. Most vets don't make a whole lot of money compared to other professions that require the same amount of schooling.
I don't know of a single person at the vet hospital i work at that has a mission of "keeping a pet sick"

most of our time is spent trying to educate clients on how to keep their pets HEALTHY.

Generally the people that think their pet is a human are the ones that have chronically ill animals.

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[QUOTE=GOLD DUCK;439929]QWAK,My dogs I regard as my children:heart: :love: and because dogs are basicly hard wired to be in a PACK they regard and relate to me as the undisputed LEADER of the pack, providing for and to them all of their needs including the basics FOOD and WATER but also the DOMINENCE they need to be DOGS. :bowdown:

They get a taist of what ever I am eating usualy, plus dog biskets frequently because they are good for them and clean their teeth.:thinkey:

They have a FEEDER box always kept full of high protean dry food I buy at Walmart in 50.Lb bags and I try to maintain 100 Lb . or more always on hand and stored in a clean plastic garbage can with a tight fiting lid so it is both water proof as well as protected from incects and vernin.

From time to time I need to sort threw my caned goods and freezer when things are a year or two (MORE?) out of code THEY think they hit the MOTHER LOAD in FOOD! :minidancesmall: :marchmell :ARMS1: :banana: Lately they have been geting a can now and then of "CHICKEN ALA KING" that has been here since preps for the (00) situation that did not happen.:eating:

I don't OWN them, I provide and care for them and they are esencialy free to come and go as they please but CHOSE to stay as they know that they have both a good home and a GREAT LIFE ,at least by DOG standards!:proud:

ALL my dogs have been DUMPED and some how managed to find this place,often injured and both scared and starved yet percieve me as being both trustable and perhaps their last hope. :adore:

The LOVE and LOIALTY they demonstrait daily is more than enough fair compensation for what I give them.:shakehand

IF people could just be MORE like DOGS this world would be a MUCH BETTER PLACE!:albertein


Exactly my sentiments as well.

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QWAK,Sukhoi_fan, Not exactly what I was meaning how ever BETTER that then SKIMING,SCAMING and trying to EXPLOIT every percieved opertunity to TAKE what they can and give little or nothing in return not even RESPECT!:proud:

A sniff now and then don't hurt but a GOOSE ocasionaly does keep one ALERT and on their TOES! :haha: :haha: :haha: :tongue:

the DUCK

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That's what I fed my last dog. I buried her this summer. Cancer. I don't know what caused it but I'm not feeding any Nutro max to my next dog.



Why dogs are better than women...


Dogs don't cry

Dogs love it when your friends come over

Dogs don't care if you use their shampoo

Dogs think you sing great

A dog's time in the bathroom is confined to a quick drink

Dogs don't expect you to call when you're running late. The later you are, the more excited dogs are to see you

Dogs will forgive you for playing with other dogs

Dogs don't notice if you call them another dog's name

Dogs are excited by rough play

Dogs don't mind if you give their offspring away

Dogs can appreciate excessive body hair

Anyone can get a good looking dog

If a dog is gorgeous, other dogs don't hate it

Dogs don't shop

Dogs like it when you leave lots of things on the floor

Dogs never need to examine the relationship

A dog's parents never visit

Dogs love long car trips

Dogs understand that instincts are better than asking for directions

When a dog gets old and snaps at you incessantly, you can shoot it

Dogs like beer

Dogs don't hate their bodies

Dogs never criticize

Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across

Dogs never expect gifts

Dogs don't worry about germs

Dogs don't want to know about every other dog you've had

Dogs don't let magazine articles guide their lives

You never have to wait for a dog, they're ready to go 24 hours a day

Dogs have no use for flowers, cards or jewelry

Dogs don't borrow your shirts

Dogs never want foot rubs

Dogs enjoy heavy petting in public

Dogs find you amusing when you're drunk

Dogs can't talk

Dogs seldom outlive you

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Dogs can't cook. We feed our 5 year old Boston Terrier mix on a 100% raw diet. Raw meat, raw bones, raw veggies. The bulk of his diet is this:

http://www.farmoredogfood.com/

We also occasionally give him raw whole eggs, raw chicken wings and raw beef ribs with meat ($1.25/lb). His favorite treat are baby carrots.

He is the healthiest dog I have ever had.:beer:

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I feed Canidae. Good food, good price ($35 for 30lb). No corn. Dogs apparently don't digest corn at all, it's just wasted filler... like you or I eating cardboard.

I supplement with raw eggs, a chicken leg every now and then (before it goes on the grill) and RMB (raw meaty bones) from the butcher. Some people go so far as to bake and powder the egg shells to mix with kibble. My dogs won't eat the shells raw so it leaves a mess if I give them whole.

I never knew that giving ANY cooked bone was risky for the dog. I always thought it was just poultry bones but apparently EVERY bone splinters after being cooked. A couple of pictures of dogs with bone shard jammed behind a tooth was enough for me to only risk that very rarely. They do still love beef and pork rib bones. The pork bones don't seem to be nearly as splintery after cooking but one of the dogs gets some fierce gas afterwards.

For those that are concerned with feeding raw because of diseases such as salmonella should know that a dog's digestive tract is too short for these types of diseases to take hold. They can eat carrion, after all.

The scat can still contain the bacteria though, so scoop that poop!

On a related note, has anyone here ever given a "psycho" dog St. John's Wort? They sell it specifically for pets as a tincture in a pump like hand soap. You just put a squirt on the food and they'll get it. It's a mood enhancer for humans and supposedly has the same effect in dogs. I'm about ready to try it for our one rescue that has some aggression and socialization issues. At $8 a bottle, why not?

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Trespassers.


LG :coolbeer:

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Where do you think we keep our silver? Problem is we have to 'recycle' it after each BM to keep his value up.

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He gets a little of all that he wants from what I eat. At a hundred pounds he would have to consume about two pounds of very dark rich chocolate to be any serious trouble, so he gets a little bit of that also[with a lot of little designer dogs out there under ten pounds that could be done in by a big candy bar, I understand why that warning is necessary]. His main commercial staple is dog bones. For the SHTF situations I always like to keep a few dozen quarts of canned chicken legs on hand. I buy 40 pound boxes on sale at the meat mart[19-29 cents a pound] and can them myself in quart jars. If I find a road kill deer in good shape that produces an even better liked product when canned. If you use "Ball" brand lids you can get several uses out of each lid. Just make sure you cook it for at least 90 minutes at 10psi and carefully clean the lids after use so that there is a good seal and a good vacum formed in the jar. Throw away any food from jars with a popped lid or that don't go "whoosh" when you pry the lid up.

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All raw meats, chicken, fish, eggs, veggies, avocados, old fashioned oatmeal

We were able to bring back the health of a sick dog with this approach

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IF people could just be MORE like DOGS this world would be a MUCH BETTER PLACE!:albertein


You have never met my dogs!!

Any dog food without corn in it is normally ok. Beet is bad also in food or treats.

Chicken necks are great dog food!!

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Sensible choice dry and canned (base), table scraps (loves almost everything), bones and organs from our grass fed whole beef.

Treats of dubious nutritionally hot dogs which are much loved.

In a crisis she could make it fine sharing what we eat.

She could use about 200 acres to run, and has a blast when we visit rural friends with big acreage. But she is loyal, smart, and good protection. Clearly grateful for the home (adult big dog pound refugee, 6 months in the slammer). She considers the wife her alpha which is a bit distressing to my ego. (Aren't dogs good at that kind of structural thinking? Does that mean I'm not da boss and don't know it?)
:wavey:

Minds me fine too, though. Being extra protective of her is also fine. Very team spirited checking the yard with me. Clearly she finds it fun as well as duty. She especially likes showing me things to check and tell her if it is ok.

Dad taught me how not to have a yappy dog and his ways work. He grew up with working animals and really understood the teamwork. In his opinion dogs without work were unhappy.

He did not speak of it in the modern pack structure way. But he said dogs enjoy working with their humans, be it hunting, guarding, herding or finding. I find that to be true.

She has a lot of good instincts. Dad was very sad that AKC type breeding for looks was ruining working dogs it took a lot of work to breed up.