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You folks laugh but I've been giving Tater a teaspoon of garlic a day and last week's supermoon was only the third time that he's turned into a werewolf.
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Dogdoo 8 posted:Small wonder he's having that problem! Did you know the more of an ingredient you use, the less effective it is? Well yeah, it's no silver bullet.
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Jun 27, 2013 00:31
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I'd like to get serious about maintaining Tater's weight. He's around 20 pounds and while it's tough to judge by sight because of his bigass fluffy coat I can feel his ribs fine so I think he's right about ideal. He's an averagely active 18-month old whose activity is two hours at the dog park chasin' and wrasslin' and tuggin' and havin' shitloads of fun, but not a whole lot on top of that. Right now the kibble of choice is Nature's Variety Instinct, which according to the bag is 3810kcal/kg. I'm armed with a digital food scale and have been offering up to 140g/day for the hell of it, which would be ~530kcal/day if he ate all of it. He doesn't, however. I think he's eating more around 100g/day for 380kcal/day (he only seems to really chow down every other evening, which is weird but whatever dude, your stomach). Throw in treats and let's call it 425. This link says an ideal intake would be almost 700/day but that seems really high... I'd practically have to force feed him that much which can't be right. The Waltham calculator also there says 570-650 which seems a bit more reasonable. Any ideas?
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Jul 4, 2013 19:27
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Braki posted:Calculations are guidelines and starting points. Every animal is different. If you had no idea how much to feed, then it would be good to use that and see how he does. If he's eating his food and he's maintaining his weight and you don't think he's too skinny or too fat, then what you're feeding is a good amount. Sounds like a plan, thanks.
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Jul 4, 2013 23:42
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C-Euro posted:This isn't a food-related question but it does involve eating: is it bad that my corgi only ever eats when I or my girlfriend is home (usually it requires both of us)? We were gone 12 hours straight yesterday, I filled up his food bowl before we left and when we got back he had touched none of it. He usually operates like this but yesterday struck as especially odd, as by the time we got home he hadn't eaten in nearly 24 hours. Par for the course for my dog  I measure food in the morning and leave it out for him during the day when I'm at work but he won't get around to eating until we're home from the dog park around 7pm.Dogs are weird.
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Nov 13, 2013 01:43
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Haha no but I've known other dogs to do that. One fun quirk he does have though: When he's finished off the bowl he'll "ring" it by tipping it slightly with his foot like a kick drum. It's a typical Correl bowl and makes a pretty distinctive ring. If he still has food left in his daily allotment I'll dutifully fill it back up, after which he verifies that yes, there is food in the bowl and then walks away, leaving the food untouched.
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Nov 15, 2013 05:38
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Not exactly wise to throw kibble from glass houses. Or something.
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May 8, 2014 00:51
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Be sure to bring a small tub of cottage cheese and show it to her so she knows you mean business. Also be prepared to alpha roll the breeder to establish dominance.
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Nov 12, 2014 22:55
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Tater gets a Greenie daily and his vet had to stop everything and admire his teeth last time we were there for an unrelated visit. Owns.
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Feb 26, 2015 05:59
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(Also he needs one after the dog park where he'll gobble up a heap of dog poo poo most days)
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Feb 26, 2015 06:02
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Mathematics posted:I got a dog unexpectedly. Normally the shelter around me has a huge waiting list for medium sized well behaved dogs so I wasn't expecting to get one for months but surprisingiy they called me a few days after I filled out my application. Amazon has a couple of legit options as a Subscribe & Save. Free shipping and you get a few percent off. Tater gets Nature's Variety but there's other good ones there as well.
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