My dobie Chica is a rescue-we have had her for two months-we know she was fed very poorly (Old Roy), was way to skinny-she has put on a good deal of weight and still needs to put on a few more pounds, but we have feeding times (they always kept her bowl full with Old Roy -she ate very little, of course, but something tells me she was not eating much because her bowl was not always full)...
Anyway, we are feeding her whole foods to help her belly and help her gain weight...we boil a whole heritage chicken, So she gets the broth (about a half quart), about 4 ounces of chicken, about a cup of a rice, oatmeal and uncured, nitrate/nitrite free bacon ends mixture, along with homemade applesauce or bananas. She gets to have a short pipe bone that has marrow in it a few times a week, but does not always work for it to get it all out and now wants to have a new one, which we now refuse to do. We also make peanut butter, so she'll get some of that and also avocado once in a while.
I also mix extra water with her food as well.
She gets that every morning around 6:30-7 AM-ish and the same time in the evening.
I just gave her a little more rice mixture with the chicken broth...she is gaining weight, I know she is manipulative (she'll whine or start shivering, mouth and all, but only while I am looking-my husband notices she stops and just wags her tail if I am making her a treat or her food and will start shaking again if I look).
The point is, she is a Blue dobe, small boned and to me, she is eating plenty! The meals are about as much as an adult would eat!
I know she will hate it when we switch back (we've started to enter in the Blue Buffalo to eventually switch her to hard food again) to hard food (she'll get 2 cups in the morning and two cups in the evening along with a half can of wet food mixed with water to make a gravy at night), but to me-right now-she is eating plenty of food!
Is she just being manipulative -could she really be that hungry? Our old 140 pound (yes, his weight was a healthy weight for his breed) ate 5 cups of food a day with some wet food at night, pipe bones, etc...she has chews that are available as well, but she will even try to steal our food...
So...does everyone agree I am giving her a good amount of food...or can she seriously still be that hungry?
Ideas? Thoughts?
Thank you!!
Anyway, we are feeding her whole foods to help her belly and help her gain weight...we boil a whole heritage chicken, So she gets the broth (about a half quart), about 4 ounces of chicken, about a cup of a rice, oatmeal and uncured, nitrate/nitrite free bacon ends mixture, along with homemade applesauce or bananas. She gets to have a short pipe bone that has marrow in it a few times a week, but does not always work for it to get it all out and now wants to have a new one, which we now refuse to do. We also make peanut butter, so she'll get some of that and also avocado once in a while.
I also mix extra water with her food as well.
She gets that every morning around 6:30-7 AM-ish and the same time in the evening.
I just gave her a little more rice mixture with the chicken broth...she is gaining weight, I know she is manipulative (she'll whine or start shivering, mouth and all, but only while I am looking-my husband notices she stops and just wags her tail if I am making her a treat or her food and will start shaking again if I look).
The point is, she is a Blue dobe, small boned and to me, she is eating plenty! The meals are about as much as an adult would eat!
I know she will hate it when we switch back (we've started to enter in the Blue Buffalo to eventually switch her to hard food again) to hard food (she'll get 2 cups in the morning and two cups in the evening along with a half can of wet food mixed with water to make a gravy at night), but to me-right now-she is eating plenty of food!
Is she just being manipulative -could she really be that hungry? Our old 140 pound (yes, his weight was a healthy weight for his breed) ate 5 cups of food a day with some wet food at night, pipe bones, etc...she has chews that are available as well, but she will even try to steal our food...
So...does everyone agree I am giving her a good amount of food...or can she seriously still be that hungry?
Ideas? Thoughts?
Thank you!!