Tootsie Roll

Thankyou all for your input and advice. She gets a small handful of dry food in the morning and last thing at night, when she goes into her room, and a chicken neck mid morning.I give her her main dinner early afternoon. Her previous owners fed only once a day,early evening as she was put her to bed in a shed. I am trying to change her habits of a decade gradually. She is about 3 kilos overweight, very active, chases rabbits on the farm in the main yard and gets 2 - 3 very long walks each day around the farm.Races around on her own instigation to check out the home paddock each day at brake neck speed when she first gets up to see what new "smells" have come into the yard. She looks good,coat shiny, eyes clear. I am paying a lot of attention to her coat as she had skin iissues when she was much younger, but I feel now that may have been as a result of fleas. For her main meal I have given her half a frame and a smal amount of dog roll, but she wisely chose just the half frame.

I am new to the use of chicken frames.Trying to convert a newly adopted dog from VIP chicken roll to a healthier alternative and it was suggested I use chicken frames.But I dont know how much to feed her.She is a healthy , slightly overweight active older cocker spaniel. The previous owners had her on the dog roll for years. Any suggestions would be appreciated. She does love the half frames I have given her, and takes ages to consume them.

I think if you are proud of the number of dogs or cats you have helped save/rehome, that it isnt necesssarily boasting. People get personal satisfaction from being successful, which then encourages them to continue to work even harder, with better or bigger results. Better success than failure. :) I adopted a dog I fostered,as he had settled in so well with my family, and there had been little interest from anyone else, nor support from the group that placed him.It semed cruel to rip him out of a home where he had settled so well, overcome his issues and was happy.I didnt take him on to adopt him,and wasnt looking for a new pet, but am so happy it turned out that way.I dont like the word failure, and before this thread thought the term"foster failure" was more of a friendly joke. I was amazed then at the suggestion that no more dogs should be placed with a foster carer that keeps the foster dog. I am naive it seems,perhaps because I am new to the game. :)