home cooked diet in young giant breed dogs

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Mark Hedberg — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:56:55 GMT

Well, glad the male owner has a veterinary degree, saved us all a lot of time!

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Malcolm Ness — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:08:46 GMT

[quote user="james herriot lied"]I had a good chat with the female owner this morning about diet. Some chicken wings, but mainly chicken and mince without bones. Apparently it's OK, though, because they supplement with eggshells to add calcium. No idea of how much or often. And they wanted to return the meloxicam from yesterday, because the male owner doesn't think it's necessary.[/quote]

Sometimes you can see an orthopaedic surgery case coming from a long way off!!

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james herriot lied — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:00:22 GMT

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but she is still a miserable, obstructive. penny pinching cow. Perhaps you could try the same strategy.

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I would LOVE to be a miserable, obstructive, penny pinching cow. The best I can come up with is to be annoying, interferingly over-helpful and I spend money like water (had to explain to the OH this week why I've again spent half the grocery bill on down clothing)

I had a good chat with the female owner this morning about diet. Some chicken wings, but mainly chicken and mince without bones. Apparently it's OK, though, because they supplement with eggshells to add calcium. No idea of how much or often. And they wanted to return the meloxicam from yesterday, because the male owner doesn't think it's necessary.

I may have a job on here - currently on tea break and about to xray next.

Re: home cooked diet in young giant breed dogs

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:53:12 GMT

I had a client who insisted her kitten would not eat anything other than prawns, it developed nutritional osteodystrophy so severe it was suffering spontaneous fractures but still she would not listen to dietary advice. So I referred her to Bristol Feline Unit and they told her exactly the same but charged her £2,000 for the privilege and all she did was complain about how much it cost. She eventually got the kitten onto a correct diet and it thrived but she is still a miserable, obstructive. penny pinching cow. Perhaps you could try the same strategy.

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James Laidlaw — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:12:14 GMT

After listening to a vet podcast only yesterday there is an american site called balanceit.com, which can create a recipe for balancing BARF diets for all types of ages/breeds/life stages in dogs and cats. However it does appear to be selling supplements too, so I couldn't work it out too well. Might be worth a look though?

Re: home cooked diet in young giant breed dogs

Mark Hedberg — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:28:51 GMT

Well, in all scientific fairness, having read both the RMB book and nutritional research, pure chicken and mince doesn't meet Mr Lonsdale's definition of a balanced diet either...