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Skriven 2009-03-24 23:20:14 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Janis Kracht
Ärende: Priscilla & Toby
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-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 03-16-09 09:33 <=-

 JK> The trouble is if I start making it for him too.. man, that's a LOT of
 JK> dog food  to make sure you have around Lol.. But the biggest problem is
 JK> this: he's funny.. it's kind of a joke with people who have Labradors..
 JK> 'Females "tear up your house" (like chewing holes in furniture and
 JK> walls (g)), but Males Steal the Food off you Plate'.. especially if you
 JK> ever give them any "human" food :) :)
 JK> So we've learned from experience that if we toss Toby a piece of
 JK> hamburger at a picnic, or whatever, forget it.. he's a demon for the
 JK> next 6 months and no one's dinner dish is safe haha Nor is anything
 JK> related to human food you might leave out on a counter or table top :)
 JK> :) If you stick to "dog food" with him, he's very well behaved (mostly)
 JK> hehe 

Hmmm... ;)  (thinks to herself, another reason not to have dogs... [g]) 
We've had cats living with us... they aren't quite such a problem to
share a morsel every-so-often with, at least not if you don't cater TOO
much to them... ;)  We mostly only feed them cat kibble, but supplement
freely with little scraps of human food as appropriate... tuna water,
meat juices, tomato sauces... tonight, they got to lick up the pan with
some tomato sauce mixed with lots of cheese from the lasagna we had for
supper...  :)

 >> =*Priscilla's get-well dog food*= JK
 >> 3 lbs. hamburger, 3 cups rolled oats, 1 lb. broccoli from the garden
 >> chopped very small, 3 cups carrots chopped very small, 3 cups rice, 2
 >> eggs,  about 2-3 cups rice milk.
 
 > Sounds good enough to serve the humans... ;)

 JK> Not much in the way of taste for humans given lack of seasonings.. no
 JK> beef broth, salt, garlic.. etc.. no bread crumbs..

Guess that's a difference between a cook and a non-cook... I look at
that and see rolled oats and rice, ok that substitutes for the bread
crumbs... broccoli and carrots, well that will season some... the
hamburger meat makes its own broth... ;)  OK, the garlic is missing,
I'll grant that one... (G)  I tend not to use salt much if at all in
cooking, haven't for decades...  :)

 JK> She is doing really really well now :)  She's going outside and is
 JK> very much back to normal pretty much.. she still stumbles now and
 JK> again, being not exactly sure-footed, but not so bad all in all.    The
 JK> Doc says the thyroid test was normal so she's just gotta stop eating so

That's got to be a relief... :)

 JK> much... so we're cutting back down some more. Another visit this week
 JK> to discuss strategies and more exercise plans. Rough with the throat
 JK> condition she has, because you don't want to cause the dog to overexert
 JK> themselves.  Poor baby...This all started when she got spayed, she was
 JK> skinnier than Toby before that :( :( 

A delicate balance, to be sure.

ttyl        neb

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