Enjoyed Them

thanks marge, yes she a little something, yet she gets parky with her own food and smell around the kitchen floor also she must think there is s****s off our food but she gets a shock nothing to be had, shes never eaten her own dinner all day the little madam :D :D

 

Our Tina could get open a packet of crisps and eat the lot,just leaving the open packet on the carpet and Times I caught her with her head in the lounge litter bin,trying to find anything to eat.What she didn't realise was I used to empty the bin each day and all she could smell was my scent on the rubbish bin :D :D

 

Anyone who has had a lab will tell you that they have bottomless stomachs. I always used to say that Duke reminded me of a sixth form boy - he had a two track mind...food and sex! After we had him neutered for medical reasons (prostrate trouble) he had a single track mind.
Before we had him he had been a pub dog and he had a thing for crisps. Nobody could eat crisps without him appearing and drooling on to their knee. Members of the family would try to hide in the utility room to eat a packet but he could hear the rustle of the crisp packet through two closed doors and he would bang the doors open with his head.
My sons took him round to my in laws and Duke found my father in laws expensive chocolate liquors. He sampled half the box, spitting the inner parts out on the carpet.
Our present dog is much more fussy and lady like. She does like her biscuits, but won't steal. She responds much more to spoken words. So if you shout "biscuit" or "treat" she will come rushing in from whatever she is doing.

 

rosa is very fussy also, I stopped giving her our food as it made her worse so now i have her on her own food which is much better for her and sometimes she misses a day.
I now feed her in the morning and she just loves those dried tripe sticks and dried pigs ears.

 

One of the hard things I had to learn when I first had a dog, is if they are hungry they eat whatever it is. My first pups initially through my anxiety I even got to hand feeding, cos I was so worried about their intake. That stopped following advise - treats were limited, and set amounts of dog food was put down and taken up if not eaten. Food can become such an issue - less about the dogs requirments and more about the owner.

With Bonnie - I had learnt from what had gone before and the anxt is no more - and I am determined that he will not have more than is good for him.

I empathis with all new puppy owners - its difficult.

 

fran do you think these smaller dogs are parkier with their food as when i had large dogs years ago i never had any of this, they used to eat what was put down to them, but with rosa she is very fussy i get to the stage now i ignore her and just put the food down and feel well iff she is hungry she will eat it.