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If you check out the ingredients, you may find it's not something you necessarily want to have as a staple diet; sometimes the fact that the furfamily loves it can be indicative of elements that suggest putting it into the 'occasional' category, depending on your dietary beliefs! These kinds of foods can often have a high fat content, which is of course why Maccas will probably be soon adding a 'Doggy Pack Meal Deal' and 'Leash Thru' service as soon as the Hamburglar is suitably confident in clicker training.

FWIW, Fido have a product called "Bathing Wipes" which are basically wet ones for dogs that are really useful when bathing's not the go...or when a mud puddle's been too tempting!

Can't say I know; but I DO know that Fido's "White and Bright" is dazzling...

Don't know how many dogs you have, but my $45 Mistral Gourmet Wizard seems to do the trick for 1! I think I got it at BigW..

'Colloidal' is when minute particles are suspended in a solution. A colloidal silver has particles so tiny and light that they float in water. The difference with a heavy metal is that the heavy metal will sink. So, in our bodies, a heavy metal will lodge in the cells and be very difficult to remove, whereas colloidal metal will float in the bloodstream and cellular fluids that can be easily absorbed and eliminated. Colloidal silver takes the oxygen enzyme out of bacteria, fungus and viruses - which kills them in minutes, and oxygenates the blood, meaning increased recovery with the reduced infection. You can drink colloidal silver 'infused' water, or apply it as a topical gel as an antiseptic, and to heal allergies, fungal infections, burns, dermatitis and stuff like that. Claims that it can cure Parvo have been made, and I have no reason to doubt that it can!

Oh! And organic apple cider vinegar in her water every day. I'll shut up now!

Hm. We went through the whole gauntlet of incontinent drama, and from my experience, meds don't work in treating the problem, it seems that they just control it (until it doesn't even do that, and you have to start mucking around with dosages and stuff.) I seem to have completely gotten rid of it by a low purine diet (easy enough to find on the net) - which means completely removing things like heart, beef, oats, peas, sardines, and tuna. Lamb, roo, chicken are good; 5000mg fish oil a day seems to seal the deal. Sometimes the whole incontinence thing can be triggered by an emotional thing (change in environment, loss of familiar people or things) and Bach Flower Rescue Remedy can help here. I'd give it all a go before having to resort to a lifetime of hormone tablets; like you, I think 7 is a bit young to have to go down that track, and the experience for Spot the Dog when I was at the end of my lead with it, was that she put on about 3kg in a very short amount of time, and was very unhappy and lethargic on them. I wonder whether the extra weight puts pressure on the bladder, because dosage had to be changed about a million times to keep striking the right balance. Anyway, she just got to a point where she refused to take them (I found she'd be pretending to take them, and then spitting them out and hiding them under a blanket - did I laugh, or did I LAUGH) so I figured 'physician, heal thyself' was definitely the message there, so down the research track I went. Hope that helps in some way; be prepared for trial and error, but the longterm payoff is worth it when they're system obviously finds balance again without the dependence on meds (and at about $40 a month for the rest of their life - who needs it?!) Good luck, and diluted white vinegar spray gets rid of the smells and stains in the meantime!

Spot the Dog is allergic to wandering dew, and getting a job to support herself. I've found the best thing to alleviate the itch and stop her gnawing herself to death is "Pinnacle Herbal Cream" that you can order online. Would tell you that it works on the spot - but that would be a poor pun that could lead to some confusion. It works really well on lots of skin eruptions and cuts and stuff, (arthritis even!) so for about 38 bux, it's like having a first-year vet student in a jar.

Wot a shocker! Spot the Dog suffered intersusseption (or however you spell THAT expensive word!) some years ago after a butchered spaying, and eating a 5cm piece of soft electrical tape that would have ordinarily passed through; but instead resulted in emergency surgery 3 days after the butcher job, whereupon 2 metres of intestine, and a third of her bowel were removed. Interestingly, the butcher vet inferred I was just being neurotic when I rang to say she was very lethargic and seemingly not recovering well! Anyway, for the last 8 years she hasn't been able to digest bone, and I find that organic apple cider vinegar in her water seems to aid her digestion, and I'm sure it keeps her teeth clean and her gums healthy. (Or maybe that's just me figuring it can't really be anything else!) She does have the occasional dinosaur bone (and I must admit I've never seen her able to gnaw any of it off, as suggested by your vet - but hey, who can argue with an expert, eh?) I'm surprised that the vet suggests dry food at a later date - I'd probably keep well clear of that, but that's just me; we all know what's best for our babies! Chicken carcasses she can handle, but surprisingly, not chicken necks - so I do think it's a case of what individual dogs can, and can't do. I found that Manuka honey (30+) was great internally and externally for soothing the incision - twice in the same spot! - and ready for the third time when she ate a kebab stick in the park.... So sorry to hear an unlucky story, dismayed to hear another misguided vet response, and VERY glad to hear that all is on the mend. I love the way that vet's mistakes always seem to cost US - lol!

Can recommend Manuka honey (30+) as a great antiseptic, and wound healer; also good for anytime pooch has an upset stomach, or having an 'off' day.

If that was home made olive oil, I'm jealous of the dogs!! And the floor! If it's an aroma not pleasant enough to feel like Roma, stick some bowls of white vinegar around the place and it'll instantly neutralise the smell.

"Pinnacle Herbal Cream" (easy enough to find on the net) is brilliant for pretty much everything human and furbaby - a 250g tub lasts forever, it's only about $38, and they deliver to your door next day. I use it for all cuts, abrasions, skin eruptions and allergies, bruising, insect bites....sounds like the House of Injuries here!

Errr this thread is about the suprelorin implant which is a grain of rice sized implant like a microchip, not the "ball implants" which are actual surgery, I think you got the wrong thread Thanks ShoeMonster for straightening me out on this one; with all the 'nad photos and not having read the first post, my confusion is at last alleviated!

I think it's Macca's for mutts. Don't know why it has to have guar gum in it, or why the meat has to be cooked. I think they use white, rather than brown rice, and I don't understand why there is only 2% more crude protein than fat (minimum); though this could possibly be why dogs like it. If they're so happy to list the ingredients, why aren't they just as happy to list the "essential vitamins and minerals" they claim to put in it?

I'm sorry that you seem to feel I've been "plugging that food in a few posts" cavNrott. I apologise if my opinion has caused some offense and accusations of 'spamming' - so to any and all that I have offended, I sincerely apologise.

Is there a reason to stick to the dry food? Could it be contributing to the weight gain?

FIDO! FIDO! FIDO! Smells DE-LICIOUS and gives the softest, sleekest coat in the world. No - make that the universe. And beyond.

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(Edited this bit, which means that all there was to say is...) Good luck, and well done for being so sensible and caring!

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Oh PUH-LEEEZ! If this isn't a clear case of human male ego gone mental I don't know what is....! Just because you blokes can't stand the thought of losing your nuts doesn't mean your dog does; and even if he does, it's not enough to have you not go ahead with the de-gonadding, is it!? What a brilliant idea - plastic surgery, and a foreign object permanently implanted into an animal that has no choice about the whole thing! Fantastic AND plastic! Geez, just when I thought veterinary surgeons couldn't think of enough things to overcharge for...what next? Penile implants? Brazilains? Get a grip you people!!!

If you're cooking her veges, that could be part of the problem, as well as the (chuck!) chum....check out the best food organic and nutritionally balanced I've ever found at Sassy Treats and they deliver to your door! ;)

All good - don't overcook it though; just drop the oats into boiling water for about a minute, and then cool it all under running cold water (they'll continue to cook when they're hot). They'll be nice soft(ish) flakes, rather than stodgy and glutinous - best for doggies!

My 10-year-old Dalmatian, spayed at around 2, started getting incontinent about 12 months ago and I was ASSURED by vets that the only thing that is effective is daily hormone tablets for the rest of her life (at 40 bux a month, I might add!) I thought that this must be complete bullshit and yet another avenue for veterinary science to keep the money vacuum cleaner going. FORTUNATELY, I did a fair bit of research and discovered that a LOW PURINE DIET is the answer (yay!) and Spot the Dog has returned to her non-leaky, happy-not-humiliated self. What she no longer has in her diet are things like oats, sardines, liver, heart, beef, peas, and yeast. I also found that "Bach Flower Remedies" seemed to work (just pick one that sounds like the symptoms to suit your doggy). Anyway, give it a go; you can find a list of high, medium, and low purine foods easily enough via the mightly www! Good luck with it all - I'm with you..try everything that doesn't involve medication first. I did try the hormones (I mean on her, not me!) and they work for a bit, but then you have to bugger around with the dosage, and poor Spotty put on weight and became very lethargic. Personally, I think the extra weight (that no amount of exercise will reduce, being hormonal an' all) puts more pressure on the bladder, and voila! Back to where you started, basically. Anyway, she just refused to take the daily medication after a few weeks, immediately dropped the weight, and made me get onto my serious search for solution. So she's back to being the princess, without the pee!