weight problem

[Guest lady hunter]

I have a 15 month old bull cross, she wont put any weight on, she is all up to date with being wormed, she is feed fed twice a day , and shes not bein over worked and ran in to the ground, she is healthly but very thin, it looks like i have been starving her, any ideas lads ???

[skycat 6,174]

What exactly are you feeding the dog on?

[Guest lady hunter]

Its a complet dog food for working and sporting dogs, the other lurcher is fine on it .

[snoopdog 1,256]

try feed it speratly from the other dogs so you can moniter how much its eating the oher dogs might nickit and just give it more.. to put weight on a dog give it chicken and tuna cod liver oil ..just give it more food ...

 

try feed it speratly from the other dogs so you can moniter how much its eating the oher dogs might nickit and just give it more.. to put weight on a dog give it chicken and tuna cod liver oil ..just give it more food ...

iam going to hve to stop smoking this shit my spellings getting fecking worse..

[Guest JDF]

it might be worth trying the dog your having trouble with on beef or chicken for a few weeks to see if it makes any difference,you've nothing to lose by trying.

[Guest lady hunter]

she does eat away from the others, i couldn risk feeding them all together, im not skimping on her food, but will try her on some chicken an see how that goes, cheers

[skycat 6,174]

What suits one dog can starve another: they are all different. I have one dog who will do really well on a complete food, and another who will lose weight, and it goes straight through them. Each dog has a different metabolic rate as well, and it could just be that this dog of yours needs far more food:

 

Have you tried her on raw meat/whole carcases./meaty bones diet? Although I've always fed meat, I've only coverted to mainly carcase/meat diet over the past year and most of mine look great on it: though there are a couple who do need extra carbohydrate. (Saluki types.) Look up BARF on a search engine.

 

Also a lot of complete foods are not high enough in fat content: where a dog gets its energy from, or protein (muscle building). A young active dog may need 17% fat, and 25% protein.

ALSO only the very expensive complete foods such as Purina Pro Plan, Hills, Eukanuba etc are meat based: the cheaper ones are cereal based and not a natural diet for dogs as much of the cereal matter is not properly digested by dogs. ALSO (more ) a lot of complete foods contain soya and are bulked up with beet pulp, which does no good to dogs at all, apart from to make them crap a lot more. Hopefully somone else will add more to this thread (hint hint :whistle: ).

[spike 0]

What suits one dog can starve another: they are all different. I have one dog who will do really well on a complete food, and another who will lose weight, and it goes straight through them. Each dog has a different metabolic rate as well, and it could just be that this dog of yours needs far more food:

 

Have you tried her on raw meat/whole carcases./meaty bones diet? Although I've always fed meat, I've only coverted to mainly carcase/meat diet over the past year and most of mine look great on it: though there are a couple who do need extra carbohydrate. (Saluki types.) Look up BARF on a search engine.

 

Also a lot of complete foods are not high enough in fat content: where a dog gets its energy from, or protein (muscle building). A young active dog may need 17% fat, and 25% protein.

ALSO only the very expensive complete foods such as Purina Pro Plan, Hills, Eukanuba etc are meat based: the cheaper ones are cereal based and not a natural diet for dogs as much of the cereal matter is not properly digested by dogs. ALSO (more ) a lot of complete foods contain soya and are bulked up with beet pulp, which does no good to dogs at all, apart from to make them crap a lot more. Hopefully somone else will add more to this thread (hint hint :whistle: ).

 

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