Dogfish

I would not appreciate some dog jumping at me. And if it was jumping on my kids I would probably skitz out big time. Mine stays on the lead till it learns. If it never learns it will never go loose. Dogfish

Best advice I got from the site was to crate train. Took a couple of months ofgetting up a couple of times a night for wee breaks but everything has been really good for months now. She knows once she is in there it is rest time. Even put her in there in the day for a couple of hours nap if needed or we need to go out and cannot take her. Dogfish

I tell mine to shut up. It gets the message. Dogfish

That is what I use. Nearly covers everything. Perfect for a new dog owner like me. Dogfish

How do you get her to be quiet for so long? My lot start complaining around 5:30 am (They go to be around 10:00ish) Hi kamuzz, We don't really do anything. She has always been a good sleeper. We had her for about 3 weeks before we got the crate and she was a bit fussy with it when we first started using it but then she settled down. For the first few weeks in the crate I would take her out to do her toilet at about 11, just before we go to bed. But now she refuses to get out so I have just started leaving her. Some mornings she really takes her time getting out as well, as if to say "leave me alone, i need a sleep in". Maybe things will change later and maybe we have been lucky so far. She is good in her crate but makes up for all the lost time when out of it by being extra naughty. Dogfish

There is no way I would leave our Airedale in the house at night unless in a crate. Maybe later on , but at nealy 6 months old she is a whirlwind. She settles in at about 9 each night and is quiet till we get up at about 7 every morning. Some of the good advice I got from this site, and I am so glad we use a crate. Dogfish

I have been giving mine chicken necks and frames. Have just started in the last week to give her lamb flaps which she also loves. Local supermarket has the flaps so cheap so I have been stocking up on them. Dogfish

Well i can tell you know little to nothing about the BARF diet. The vegie mush is fed to the dogs to replicate the stomach contents of the prey they are eating which of course is mushed up greens. One of the few ways to replicate this, as dogs cant digest whole vegetable parts, is to use a juicer or processor. That is right. I do not know much of the BARF diet as I have no researched it fully as yet. I see no problem with mushing up left over cooked vegies but like I said I have not looked into it. Stomach contents of prey would of started to be broken down by the animals digestive system. This could possibly replicate cooked mush in the stomach. Is it also possible that some members of a wild dog pack never got to eat any stomach contents because of the pecking order of the pack? If they got to eat last or near last there may not have been anything left. Unless they had a really fair leader who divided everything up equally amongst them at the start. Dogfish

Mine gets Advance in the morning. Sometimes with some yoghurt. At niht she gets either a chicken carcass or som lamb flap. I also mix in cooked vegies if there are any leftovers from tea. Remember you should not give your dogs cooked stuff because wild dogs do not know how to cook. But it is fine to give them mush prepared in the blender because apparently they have learned how to use one lately. Dogfish

Well I was told not to feed cooked vegies on a previous thread because wild dogs do not know how to cook. But of course they can use a food processor to mush them up. Dogfish

This is somethng I am worried about as our Airedale is very active. We are thinking of getting her done at around 10 months. Hope she will be ok. Dogfish

All good and well. Some good advice. I still don't see a problem with giving her hard boiled eggs though. Does something happen in the cooking process that changes the egg's composition? She also loves fried eggs which she has had a few times before as well. If I do introduce something new in her diet it is minimal and I always see how she reacts to it. So far she has had good solid stools and so problems as far as I can see. I dont have a problem with giving her raw egg now that I know it is ok she will get it. I am trying to give her a good balanced dog diet. Dogfish

Ours had some leftover corn once and it came out whole embedded in her stools, also she loves getting into the malted grain which also passes out whole. I have to really watch her with the grain. She knows she is in trouble if she goes anywher near it. ;) And she only ever had corn once. She has certainly stolen egg shells from the rubbish before. I have only ever posted a picture of her when we first got her at 8 weks old. this picture is more current. Taken about 2 weeks ago. She is 5 months old now

The only reason I have given boiled egg so far is that I read there may be a danger of salmonella poisoning from the shell. Does this apply to dogs as well? As far as rice or spag goes, she may had had that maybe a dozen times so far. I will cut it out. I should also add that her vegies have been raw but I think they need to be mushed? Dogfish

Thanks for the answers so far everyone. She did start on Advance which she still gets about 50% of the time. I have introduced hard boiled eggs, sardines(which she goes nuts over) and if we ever have meat like chops or roast lamb / beef she gets a raw porton of that as well. Also vegies when we have them and she also seems to love apple. I am trying to apply a variety of food and am leaning towards the BARF diet. If I give her a carcass she will usually get it with some rice or spaghetti as a filler. I just need to research it some more then prepare for it. Probably have the dry food as a standby. One other question I do have is what is a meaty bone as opposed to a normal bone? Is a lamb shank/neck considered a meaty bone? Dogfish