Monkey Musing Daily Open Discussion #3 8/24 - 8/29/2007

[Artcolley]

Art, my boys were on a special urinary diet & it almost killed them. My vet changed their diet & told me to add boiled ground beef. He also said they could have green beans, carrots, greens etc.

Oh, Okay, Thanks , Yap. Mine eat boiled ground beef, leftover roasts, nice chicken breasts, ground turkey, and I mix that with oatmeal , rice or barley and some carrots. The other stuff they get when I am making meals! They sit there and get whatever drops off the cutting board! Oh, and they LOVE cherry tomatoes!

[mrs. red]

I hope the judge goes beyond the recommendation for Vick. I also hope he never gets to play ball again. IMO what he did is disgusting to put it mildly.

Me too!

[Artcolley]

Art, my boys were on a special urinary diet & it almost killed them. My vet changed their diet & told me to add boiled ground beef. He also said they could have green beans, carrots, greens etc.

Since my bro had a little old chi that died from the dog food problem, I cook for my yorkies.  I make sure they get black strap molasses, wheat germ, eggs etc. There are a lot of sites for making your own dog food.  The vet had me giving one of my yorkies science diet for overweight dogs, and guess what the first ingredient listed is?  corn.  Dogs don't digest corn well.  And since I've been cooking for my dogs, my porkie yorkie is at a good weight now. The vets make $$ selling dog food.  A lot of the food has rice in it as well. Rice?

Wow, I'll have to try the molasses and wheat germ. I have chickens so eggs will be no problelm. I use them in my homemade dog brownies. (shells and all)
BTW, Olga, my Border Collie STEALS the eggs as they come in from the barn if we don't hurry and get them to the egg carton, lol!

[Artcolley]

For all the Monkeys who have pets, Frijole told me about this line of pet food. It is all natural & I am looking in to it for my pets.
http://www.solidgoldhealth.com/

Thanks, Yap. I'll look into that! Right now I am doing a  lot of cooking for the "girls". With only two left now, I can do that fairly cheaply.
Oh, speaking of which, Mine LOVE ALL veggies. Are veggies all good for them? I know that pumpkins and carrots are good, but they also love onions, peppers, celery, bananas, oranges...actually they love everything.

Onions are not good for them.  No avocado, no grapes.  Sweet potatoes are good source of vitamins.  Eggs are okay, I even take the shells, wash and then bake in 250 degree oven, grind into food.  Good source of calcium

I see we are all into our children!  it's a good thing... I am waiting with baited breath to see whta the judge hands Mr. Vick tomorrow!

I hope they throw the book at him. He makes me sick.

[mrs. red]

I  headed out for a while.... gotta go buy some Prell

have a good day monkeys... see y'all later!

[Artcolley]

Muffy, my vet quit selling or recommending science diet. He now prefers royal canin.
My boys were on the royal canin urinary so. Their glucose level was 0, cholesterol level 0 & liver enzymes were extremely high. Just got my fat boy out of the vet intensive care on Friday. We were scared he wasn't gonna make it. Was touch & go for a few days.

Oh, Yap. Sorry to hear your little guy was ill
Is he doing okay now?

[Angiex911dsptchr]

I  headed out for a while.... gotta go buy some Prell

have a good day monkeys... see y'all later!

  LOL  Good luck.. let us know what happens

[Artcolley]

ART

 Is your email addy on AOL stil the same? The one with ummm.. Nord?   

YEs, Angie, Still the same!!!

[yapperz1]

So far so good Art. Thank goodness they developed pill pockets. Those things are life savers when having to give a dog a pill.

[Artcolley]

So far so good Art. Thank goodness they developed pill pockets. Those things are life savers when having to give a dog a pill.

They certainly are!
Glad to hear your little one is doing better, poor baby.

[MuffyBee]

So far so good Art. Thank goodness they developed pill pockets. Those things are life savers when having to give a dog a pill.

oh yeah.  my dogs simply love those pill pockets.  It beat even putting pills in cheese for us.

[Angiex911dsptchr]

ART

 Is your email addy on AOL stil the same? The one with ummm.. Nord?   

YEs, Angie, Still the same!!!

K Thanks Art 

[Dugga]

Art, my boys were on a special urinary diet & it almost killed them. My vet changed their diet & told me to add boiled ground beef. He also said they could have green beans, carrots, greens etc.

Oh, Okay, Thanks , Yap. Mine eat boiled ground beef, leftover roasts, nice chicken breasts, ground turkey, and I mix that with oatmeal , rice or barley and some carrots. The other stuff they get when I am making meals! They sit there and get whatever drops off the cutting board! Oh, and they LOVE cherry tomatoes!

I've been hearing commercials on XM Radio for this stuff:

http://www.dinovite.com/

Supposedly, it's a miracle cure-all mixture for sickly dogs. I'm not surprised by the problems that a lot of us have had with the diets of our animals. You get so many mixed messages about pet food. Some people say "I fed my dog Old Roy (Sams cheapo brand) and he lived to be 20" and others swear that the cheap stuff is dangerous for our pets. I am inclined to believe the latter.

We've always fed our animals nothing but Iams, and they are all very very healthy. One of our girls, Rosie, is a little TOO healthy, if you know what I mean!

It looks like this Dinovite stuff might be really good to supplement dog food with. Either that, or I've once again fallen victim to advertising hype.

[MuffyBee]

One of my little yorkies has allergies to grasses and such.  On the advice vet, I give her a children's chewable benadryl tablet stuck in a pill pocket, when her allergies are acting up.  Works if they get stung by insects too.  I used to try to give her children's liquid benadryl, but ended up with more of it on us then in her. 

[Angiex911dsptchr]

I dont have any pets anymore 

Muffy.. what is a pill pocket??   

[crazybabyborg]

Check the lounge Angie! 

[MuffyBee]

Art, my boys were on a special urinary diet & it almost killed them. My vet changed their diet & told me to add boiled ground beef. He also said they could have green beans, carrots, greens etc.

Oh, Okay, Thanks , Yap. Mine eat boiled ground beef, leftover roasts, nice chicken breasts, ground turkey, and I mix that with oatmeal , rice or barley and some carrots. The other stuff they get when I am making meals! They sit there and get whatever drops off the cutting board! Oh, and they LOVE cherry tomatoes!

I've been hearing commercials on XM Radio for this stuff:

http://www.dinovite.com/



Supposedly, it's a miracle cure-all mixture for sickly dogs. I'm not surprised by the problems that a lot of us have had with the diets of our animals. You get so many mixed messages about pet food. Some people say "I fed my dog Old Roy (Sams cheapo brand) and he lived to be 20" and others swear that the cheap stuff is dangerous for our pets. I am inclined to believe the latter.

We've always fed our animals nothing but Iams, and they are all very very healthy. One of our girls, Rosie, is a little TOO healthy, if you know what I mean!

It looks like this Dinovite stuff might be really good to supplement dog food with. Either that, or I've once again fallen victim to advertising hype.

Do you remember the flap about dog food that was revealed when there was the big recall?  Companies that made dog food and sold it cheaply under name such as Old Roy took that same dog food and labeled it differently as a premium type dog food and charged more for it, but was SAME food as Old Roy?  A lot of consumers were mad, because they thought by paying more for the food, they were giving their dog a better product.  Not always so.  I guess we have to read the labels.

[Angiex911dsptchr]

Check the lounge Angie! 

  LMAO   I Love it.. Thanks ~!!!   

[Dugga]

One of my little yorkies has allergies to grasses and such.  On the advice vet, I give her a children's chewable benadryl tablet stuck in a pill pocket, when her allergies are acting up.  Works if they get stung by insects too.  I used to try to give her children's liquid benadryl, but ended up with more of it on us then in her. 

I agree, Muffy. This is great advice. We used to own an English Bulldog, Reggie. One day he got into something out in the grass and his face swelled up like a balloon. His folds were all gone away! hahaha. We shoved a couple of children's Benadryl down his throat and within 12 hours his symptoms had all gone away. We never did find out what he was allergic to.

Poor old Reggie. We ended up having to find him a new home in his old age. He began to develop really bad bathroom habits - not for health reasons, but for behavioral reasons, and we gave him to another faimly who could spend more time with him. He was a big turd, but he was fun.

[Anna]

NO RAISINS FOR DOGS!  Those can actually kill them if they eat a lot.

Linatone Shiny Coat is a supplement much like Dinavite but a liquid source of Omega Fatty Acids that ALL dogs need much like out taking fish oil capsules.

This is a terrific supplement for any dog but especially those with allergies and skin issues or scratching.

I buy it by the gallon!