cleo

This is Cleo about 2 months ago. All grown up now!

The pup in my avatar is not Cleo but Pepper my Pembroke Welsh Corgi. Pepper died many years ago, rather prematurely at the tender age of 2yo. I adored her no end and still miss her despite the many passing years. Cleo is my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. This is Cleo on her first day home.

Ooohhh.... I am going to make you jealous!!! Cleo, who will be one in July, never got into the habit of chewing anything except her toys She is a dream puppy to have Took quite awhile to fully toilet train her though. 4 months before she didn't make a single slip up. I crated her in my bedroom, but only at night, so I knew when she needed to go toilet as she would "knock" on her crate door to be let out. Whilst she learned very quickly not to toilet in the bedroom, it took her awhile to learn not to toilet in the rest of the house. Now she just sits by the door and barks when she needs to go. By the way, any chance of posting more photos...... PLEASE ???!!!!!

Treat ball ;) Keeps them entertained for hours!

Apart from the scooting, when the anal glands are full they will sometimes leak. And the stench is nothing you have smelled before. When I first caught a wiff of it whilst driving pass Geelong, I thought it was the Shell refinery putting out noxious gas into the air

MSJ, I am so sorry about Jenna. I think you will know when the time comes. Give Jenna a kiss and hug for me.

I feed both mine eagle pack holistic natural too. Brigantia, that price is cheap. Where did you get it from? I am paying $85 for 15Kg but get it home delivered for free. Andromeda, I mix the EP in their chicken, beef and vegies. So maybe mix EP with the chicken, rice and vegies and feed half during the day and the other half for dinner.

pommy i know u are cleo's week at the office: monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday

Cavs, she will be desexed on Monday so will get the vet to have a look at IT then. So nervous about the desexing. Anyway I have increased her bone intake to a few small ones once a day rather than one large one once a week. Seemed to have cleared the problem until today. I was having a little snooze with her and well I was awaken quite rudely Pommy her diet isn't cheap. I think she eats better than me.

I have read that the anal glands can be surgically removed. Has anyone done this or researched extensively into this? Would really love to hear your thought and opinions on the matter. Thanks :D

Cleo is also extremely fussy with her food. She will eat when I pour some chicken broth over her food though so maybe you could try that????

Taking into account that chicken might be the cause of Cleo's problems, I have changed her diet to 1/2 chicken 1/2 beef mince. I have not fully switched over as the last time I gave her beef mince she had a severe bout of diarrhoea and the vet told me to put her on the chicken diet and to switch her over slowly. Anyway she was fine eating for about three days and now doesn't want to touch her food anymore Should I persist with the 1/2 diet of just switch her back to chicken? I have thought of boiling some chicken and using the broth to mask the beef?? Will that help?? I don't believe it's flatulence as she scoots sometimes which I doubt is caused by worms as she has been wormed every forthnightly.

Oh thank you CavsRcute and bstone7 for your replies!!!! Yes it happened last night whilst she was angelically sleeping in my dad's arms whilst he was watching Carols By Candlelight :p She certainly knows how to clear a room I still find if difficult to reconcile that something so vile can come out of something so beautiful Anyway I guess I will need to get the vet to show me how to clear it for her? Will the vet even do it?? It's kind of embarrassing having to broach it with the vet or are they use to such request ????? Is there any food she should steer clear of or is it an individual thing?

OK I just had a thought. Maybe Cleo isn't passing gas. I remember reading before that Cavvies have to have their anal glands emptied???? So could all this foul smell just be due to clogged up glands????

The first time Cleo farted we were driving pass some factories. It smelled so bad I didn't think it was possible for anything living to produce that kind of smell so I blamed the factories for producing noxious gas. Anyway the frequency of occurence has increased in the past two weeks. The room reeks for a long time after and I even have to wash her bum as it really smells foul. She is currently on a diet of chicken, bones, vegies and a small portion of eagles pack dry puppy food mixed in. Is there something else I should be feeding her or remove from her diet so that whatever she produces on the other end does not at least smell THAT bad?????? Mick is fed the same diet with the exception that he has eagles pack holistic dry food. He does not produce such noxious gas. Please HELP anyone. It's so horrible especially when she does it in the car. I very almost threw up the other day.

Poor little Minty. The raw mince or neck prob had salmonella or e.coli hence gastro. You could try boiling chicken mince with rice. That's suppose to be good for pups. Hope she feels better soon.

I use Revolution for heartworm and flea prevention and control and take them to the vet to be weighed and wormed which only cost $1.50. No need for appointments.

I hope there isn't anything seriously wrong. Good luck.

showdog

Thanks for your replies. I don't want to change their diet per se but just thought I should give them the best there is to give. I worry they might not be getting all the required nutients just from fresh food alone so tend to mix in a bit of the commercial stuff. I guess all the info regarding commercial food found on this site has just confused me somewhat. They are both healthy. Infact Mick who just turned 10 has never been sick a day of his life. Hopefully I will be as lucky with Cleo. She is 5 months and doing well so far. Thanks again ;)

I currently feed my dogs chicken, vegies, rice mixed with Hills Science Diet and once a week with sardines and a huge bone. Hills was recommended by a friend of mine who use to be a vet. After reading several threads regarding Royal Canin, Eagle Pack, Natura etc etc I am not so sure if Hills is good enough for my lovelies. Any opinions regarding what is the better option?