Types of Food Ilse LikesApril 7th, 2007 @ 10:04 am
When my Aunt Irene and Veeni (who is Ilse’s breeder) came up with Ilse, Veeni recommended feeding Ilse a few different types of dog foods, and we fed Ilse the recommended food for a while; then I discovered that Ilse also likes eating apples, tomatoes, and oranges. Also as our other dogs are fed a natural homemade diet I then told mum to switch Ilse’s diet to the one our other dogs are having, as I saw how much she liked eating natural foods.
We also try to feed our dogs a variety of foods such as: either raw chicken, or raw lamb bones, we also feed our dogs sardines, or tuna, and cooked rice and a variety of raw vegetables (but not onions). Mum does the vegetables in a food processor that I gave her a few years back, and she then mixes them in with the rice afterwards. We also don’t have any problems feeding our dogs raw bones, although Maddie did bring them up again as this is what some old dogs do.
Then thinking about what may cause this, I also know that mum was told by a vet that we should wash the bones before feeding them to our dogs perhaps this is to stop dogs from sicking them up?
Maybe I should ask mum about this and find out.
Feeding Dogs
Jo
said,
April 7, 2007 at 10:35 am
I asked mum about why a vet told her that she should wash the bones before feeding them to our dogs, and she told me that: the vet was referring to the chicken bones as he or she said that the chicken bones may have some sort of bacteria on them and was suggesting that that may have caused Maddie to sick them up.
But the vet mum said wasn’t quite sure about this being the reason so it could have been that Maddie was getting old and her digestion wasn’t as good as it used to be.
Jo
said,
April 23, 2007 at 6:36 am
Also if you find that your dog can’t stomach the raw bones then give them other forms of calcium, and then another thing that you could give them is pigs ears to clean their teeth; it is also a great thing to give puppies if they are teething.