Putting meat on her bones
From the original thread: SheepieBoss wrote: I wonder if adding some probiotics to her food would be in order along with glucosamine, calcium, etc. Such a young girl to be a mommy and now so skinny. Surely she is lacking some nutrients. The gluco and calcium just for awhile, probiotics maybe longer. How wonderful she is now in such a loving home. |
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| I would think just switching to a high quality food and feeding regularly (maybe a bit more at first) would be enough. Maybe add a can of soft food in just to get a little more into her if she's not interested?
I don't think people realize how much a lousy diet can affect the overall health of a dog. It reminds me of those old Total commercials where they used to say, "You'd have to eat this many bowls of raisin bran to equal one bowl of Total." It's the same with cheap dog food. There's no nutrition to it so the same amount of what you might feed of a quality food will need to be a lot more to get the nutrition out and, even then, I think the dog would get fat before he got healthy! |
| We rescued a young boy who was slightly older 19 mths he was vastly underweight at only 52 lbs, we have been feeding him Eukanuba puppy food large breed and build ing him up gradually at roughly 2 lbs per week. My suggestion is use a good dry food and increase the amount normally fed by about 50% to build up the substance, restrain the dog from playing and running to much until it has increased to her correct weight, then do soe biking to build up the muscles. Good food, attention and loving will have tip top in no time at all. |
| We're feeding IAMS Large Breed (what we've been using for years) because we've been really happy with it, even after some of the apparent changes a couple years ago. We talked about going to a puppy food last night, but haven't made the jump yet.
In response to SheepieBoss' comments I was thinking maybe adding a cup of live-culture plain yogurt every day to up the calcium and try the probiotics thing? |
chowderdawg wrote: We're feeding IAMS Large Breed (what we've been using for years) because we've been really happy with it, even after some of the apparent changes a couple years ago. We talked about going to a puppy food last night, but haven't made the jump yet.
In response to SheepieBoss' comments I was thinking maybe adding a cup of live-culture plain yogurt every day to up the calcium and try the probiotics thing? IAMS is in Europe EUKANUBA so you are on a good food, the puppy food is not absolutly necessary, we feed our new boy with yogurt, cottage cheese and fresh food as extra. Aim for an additional 2 lbs a week. If you increase the daily food by about 50 % it should be sufficent to met this target. |
| Phoebe was only 47 lbs when we got her. Prior to that, we know that she had gotten down to 41 lbs. That was at age 4 1/2 years. We fed her IAMS and cottage cheese and she shot right up to 56 lbs in no time. (Of course, we had her spayed.) She is still very lean but she is on the small side for an OES and the vet says she is fine.
She still gets her cottage cheese with every meal. If I don't put it on, she just sits and looks at me as it saying, "Where's the rest of it!" |
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