Hi new to the forum here and I find all this unreal reading thanks to all the experts out there. I'm an information glutton but for me it goes something like how I deal with my human kids...has to feel right!
My partner's beautiful english Staffy Casi (whom I have 'adopted' as my own as well) has just had 10 pups of which 9 are alive. We are so proud of her.
I have always been a big believer in raw meat being the main focus of a dogs diet. When i had my first dog sadly which i had to put down many years ago all i fed him was raw meat, and at times left overs from dinner. He was incredibly healthy and I never had any problems with him health wise.
I don't like my kids having junk food every day and in my eyes feeding your dog processed canned or dry food is something like feeding your kids Macdonald's every day VERY bad. We keep the dried food and some cans but they are for emergencies as we live out of town but to be honest she hates the stuff and will wait for something else before eating it.
I do have a question in that now that she has had quite a large litter some advice to supplementing her diet so she can cope would be great, the vets sold us milk formula for the puppies but we are more into simply making sure that she is well fed and able to produce enough milk for all of them herself instead of us forcing the milk down the poor little pups throats.
I have actually been giving her the formula as she is not drinking much water and seems to enjoy the milk more?? She has become very fussy with her food at the moment and use to eat just about anything (as in scraps from our dinners) but that is not to her taste. She still loves her chicken and kangaroo tails and minced meat as well as I have been feeding her at least one egg a day.
Is there anything extra at this time with her lactating that would help her keep up to the demands of feeding so many? I hope I have put this in the right spot as I know from what i have just written she is not on a complete pure meat diet at this time but it is because I believe at the moment she needs extra ANY advice would be great and I apologise if this is in the wrong spot.
Cheers
