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It indicates bile eruption which can happen with hunger, I guess it's similar when missing a meal ourselves where hunger turns to feeling a bit sick. Dieting the dog with a reduced intake may take an adjustment period, but a dog biscuit between meals generally stops the vomiting of bile. It happens with pups often overnight when getting over hungry. Does he need medication from the vet or should I just give him a snack? The adjustment in food i did over days not immediately.

My older dog vommitted yellow thick liquid today (before food). I've reduced the intake of his food by 1/4-1/2 as other posters has recommended for the past two weeks as he is a bit overweight. I googled on the internet and yellow liquid usually indicates hunger. Is this correct?

Could you please send me the link. I had a look but couldn't find the kind of clicker I posted above.

Does anyone know where i can get clickers that look like this that doesn't cost a fortune http://www.drabekweb.com/dogtraining/clicker.html I have one but the store has closed down... i got it for around $2.50. I'm looking on ebay and online and they cost around $10 including delivery - thats 4 times markup!

At what age can they start eating bones?

Great suggestion. I will give that a go thanks

how does this work? With my one, when he stops whinging, i approach him but as soon as i do, he whinges again. I m not quick enough to praise before he makes a sound

Oh and one more thing, would my older dog interpret the growling as aggression? So far he is okay and tolerates it but maybe as becks said he has the "puppy license card" at the moment. As he gets bigger, things can change

Artemis They recommend one and a half cups at that age. If i cut back by half, thats just 3/4 cup. Is that enough for a growing pup?. At the moment, i give him roughly one and a quarter cup, plus the fact he does not finish all means he is getting a bit over one cup. That doesnt seem to be much food really. Do the dog food company over state the feeding amount by that much ? Unfortunately i dont have the option of feeding three times a day due to work.

thanks all for the good advice. I'm going to try with the 2 meals a day and a snack in the arvo

I got one of these today..the bob alot... How do u wash it?

He looks good in weight but I've already decreased whats on the packet. One of the days i feed him the left over a couple of hours later and he gobbled it all up so I thought he may still be hungry.

I'm transitioning my puppy from 3 meals a day to 2 meals but i'm finding that he is not eating up all the food. I'm feeding a bit less than the amount recommended on the kibble package and the fact he is not eating it all up makes me worried he is not getting enough. Should I go back to 3 times a day or Should i take the left over away and not give him anything until the next meal He leaves about 1/6 of a cup untouched

Yep i feared this as well, thats why i moved them away very quickly. I feed them in the same room supervised and i think a little exposure of each other while eating is not necessarily a bad thing. They need to learn to be able to eat in each others presence - so long as its not dominating then should be okay.

Becks, could you recommend some good titles? thanks

I got a puppy last week and I may not be able to answer your question but I'll share with you my experience. Before I got the puppy, I feared that it was going to be a nightmare during feeding time as I have read and experienced for myself that dogs can be very protective of food. So i had it all planned out to minimise any negative experience as possible. I fed my older dog where he usually eats and the puppy about 8 metres away behind the speakers so he is not distracted and the older dog cannot see. The older dog gets the signal to eat first and then the little one. To my surprise, the older dog isn't protective of the food at all. Being the puppy, he was nosy and at one stage ran right to my older dog's bowl and started munching and the older dog just let him. Not a growl. Now he constantly goes and see what his big brother is eating or drinks from his water bowl. Big brother does the same. They don't seem to care but i still keep a close out on it and move them away quickly. So i think you won't really be able to tell until you see them together eating for the first time and only can you determine whether they will be ok in the same room. If you dog is not possessive of his food, then chances are they will probably be ok but i will still keep an eye out on them for the first couple of days/weeks. Being a kong, it will probably keep them occupied enough to care what the other is doing anyways. Good luck and congrats on the new puppy... it is very exciting.

Thanks this is exactly whats happening, but he sooks for like as long as he can and could go on for half and hour to an hour. I think i need to stop giving in and ignore him.

Thanks for that. His crying is a bit better but still prefers the preference of one of us to be with him when he sleeps. Even if he is with my older dog, he would still whine. He seems to whine a bit when he wants attention, how can i break this behaviour (for example, we put him outside to play and he plays happily until we walk inside the house but won't let him in)

okay thanks all. I will just let him be. When my older dog was a puppy, he was never that vocal so I wasn't sure whether it was aggressiveness or not. Thanks, now i know.

The reason why i ask is i am worried the "harmless" growl could turn into a aggressive one. After all, he is only a puppy.

hahah So should i intervene when he growls or just let it be as its not a show teeth growl?

Not sure whether this is normal or some kind of aggression, but my puppy when he gets frustrated growls. No teeth or lips raised up, he just makes the grrrr.....no snapping either It happens when he plays tug with my other dog and can't seem to get the toy off the other one.... but then it also happens when he is playing alone with a toy so i'm a bit confused whether this is his way of saying i'm frustrated. How can i correct this. I stop play whenever he does it but i'm not sure he realises its the growling that causes the play to stop.

When is it safe to start heartworms? The interceptor packaging says its safe for puppies from 2 weeks but do they really need it at that age? I was thinking of starting at 12 weeks but i am thinking about doing it a bit earlier. My puppy was wormed with all wormers at 8 weeks of age. Which means at 10 weeks i need to worm again. Rather than going out an buying all wormers which has several doses and only use one, should i just start him on interceptor (covers intestinal worms and heartworm) at 10wks?

How do you train 2 dogs? Do you do it together or separately?

interesting and very entertaining thread! Haven't seen any post about mini schnauzers. I don't actually know what people think about them to comment.