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Old small dogs with gas. What do YOU feed yours?
fishinguitarman Offline
#1 Posted:
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When dogs get older they tend to lose the enzymes to break down many dog foods, especially
if they have too much grain or fillers. They also don't get as much exercise and tend tp gulp their
food so feeding them 1/2 as much twice a day is necessary.

Out of curiosity, what do you feed yours?

engletl Offline
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Just feed them deer meat
fishinguitarman Offline
#3 Posted:
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I just ate and I've got gas
Mrs. dpnewell Offline
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I usually feed the small dogs to the large "real*" dogs.

David

*Real Dog = Canines of 150 lbs. and up.
fishinguitarman Offline
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Mrs. dpnewell wrote:
I usually feed the small dogs to the large "real*" dogs.

David

*Real Dog = Canines of 150 lbs. and up.





So then you don't have tp feed either one
corey sellers Offline
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I ate refried beans today you really need to over here with me right now
fishinguitarman Offline
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corey sellers wrote:
I ate refried beans today you really need to over here with me right now





I had navy beans, so I'm good to go!
MACS Offline
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Feed 'em to the gators.

My old ass cat ran off... prolly got ate by a coyote. Now I need a dog.
Sunoverbeach Offline
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I always assumed the old farts got the old dogs to have a scapegoat to blame for the horrible gas. Therefore just feed them beans and broccoli and you'll have hours of excuses on tap
corey sellers Offline
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My Male healer will run you out of a room he is horrible

He eats healthy weight beneful
Sunoverbeach Offline
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My dad could go head to head (so to speak) with him. He eats nothing healthy
dkeage Offline
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MACS wrote:
Feed 'em to the gators.

My old ass cat ran off... prolly got ate by a coyote. Now I need a dog.



Petfinder.com


Just saying
fishinguitarman Offline
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corey sellers wrote:
My Male healer will run you out of a room he is horrible

He eats healthy weight beneful



check the ingredients and see if it is grain free ( corn, soybeans, etc.)

If not, change his food but do it gradually. Mix the 2 and increase the amount of new stuff in more and more until it's all the new stuff.
Try Purina Pro maybe
dkeage Offline
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corey sellers wrote:
My Male healer will run you out of a room he is horrible

He eats healthy weight beneful

Great dogs

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KingoftheCove Offline
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Yep......I had a red Merle for almost 15 years.....sad day when I had to put her down.
ZRX1200 Offline
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A can of Hormel chili
RMAN4443 Offline
#17 Posted:
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I'll tell you what not to feed them.....That Beef Stroganoff I made today.....it was delicious, but It's making me, and the wife and dog, pay for it now...d'oh!
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I never noticed a problem with my puppy-dog... She was 15 when I had to put her down.. but we fed her a mix of canned and dry foods.. as well as fat from ribeyes and stuff... She was a happy dog... Sad
fishinguitarman Offline
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DrafterX wrote:
I never noticed a problem with my puppy-dog... She was 15 when I had to put her down.. but we fed her a mix of canned and dry foods.. as well as fat from ribeyes and stuff... She was a happy dog... Sad




Is that the one in your avatar?
Ewok126 Offline
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Our little pupper gets fish,rabbit, and squirrel along with a variety of some veggies. She loves green beans, carrots, and she is kind of meh on tatters. She loves the occasional raw egg as well. The only reason I will add the raw egg in is for her coat and the protein and she loves em. We very rarely feed her any dry dog foods because I do not trust em for chit. As you said most are nothing but grain fillers.The high end foods that claim they do not have so much of the grain fillers are so damn expensive. The cost of buying or catching fresh fish is actually cheaper. Well, I say fresh fish lets go with non frozen from Sams is where I get ours. The other bigger 2 dogs get basically the same but they do on occasion get dry food as well. We only use the dry foods as a filler for them. I try to avoid beef with lots of fats and pork with lots of fats as they tend to get the chits. Any time I fix a meal that required beef bone they get it after I am done. All of em love the beef bone.

My issues are how picky they are. Our little one and Daisy the medium 3 legged dog will only eat fish raw, Moose will only eat fish if it has been seared. So needless to say he has his own cheap non stick frying pan from dollar general for that lol. All of em eat rabbit and squirrel raw and love it. Moose and Daisy both eat raw tatters. I can't help but to laugh at moose, He does just like what Rocco would do. Give him a whole raw tatter and that pugger will sit for hours peeling it. Damn fine shreds of tatter peeling next to his food bowl like fine sawdust. Daisy she eats her whole tatter skin and all. The small one since she is a teacup I always peel her tater and dice it up.

I know it sounds like a great deal of work but really it's not. Since most of the foods is a great deal of what we eat. We just prepare theirs while fixing ours. We do not season our foods while cooking for the most part with things like butter, salt etc, we do that after cooking so none of the BS goes in their foods. The Squirrels free and cheap with my trap just a matter of cleaning em then I will freeze em in the freezer in a good ole ziplock. Every day when I pull a thawed one out of the fridge to cut up for em, I put a frozen one in the fridge so it will be thawed the next afternoon.

Oh and chicken Raw they get a lot of that as well. No chicken bone though as these splinter and can choke the puppers. Again just cut up and prepared as we are fixing our meals.

Sorry for the book brother.

Oh and side note. We have been feeding our dogs like this for years. One of the things I have noticed. It does not take near the amount of food to fill em up as when feeding store bought dried foods so again CHEAPER. Also I have noticed over the years, all of our dogs seem to be more energetic vs lethargic. They seem to be very active and playful and more aware. Not really sure if it is due to the food but if I give them store bought dried food for say a week, I can see in them that this takes a big turnaround.
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ZRX1200 wrote:
A can of Hormel chili


With or without beans ? Chunky?

Maybe something Drafter eats ?
cacman Offline
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ZRX1200 wrote:
A can of Hormel chili

+1
Love the movie "Grumpy Old Men"!
fishinguitarman Offline
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cacman wrote:
+1
Love the movie "Grumpy Old Men"!




Fish in the backseat?
Bumblebee395 Offline
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Sometimes you need to experiment w/ different foods. By all means feed them a high quality food not 'Ole Henry" from
the Wal-marts.


Try cooking a chicken and mixing it with rice, carrots, green beans and such. They love it, its good for them and its

relatively inexpensive compared to good dog food.
victor809 Offline
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The takeaway is that ewok has squirrel defrosting in his fridge.

The woman has 2 small older dogs (one almost 16). She cooks all their food... It's a mix of salmon, egg, chicken, sweet potatoes, broccoli, kale carrot and blueberries I think. She used to add peas as well... This is for the one with boderline kidney disease, because he needs low fat. The other gets rotisserie chicken, rice and quinua as well.

All the food is organic.
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