Dog Owner Chat v2

[Joe Kerr]

@stricktlyspagetti
*Shepherd
She's gorgeous! At 5 months old,
she must be SUCH a handful, I
don't envy you xD I have a Rhodi mix
that was the absolute worst at 5 - 10
months old. Where'd you get Ruby?

[val.]

Crying. I HAVE SO TO PORTION OUT. WHY DO I FEED RAW AGAIN!?

Picked up 82lbs of free meat today. 27lbs of deer and 55lbs of grass fed bull. Uggghhh. The two bottem drawers of my frige are over flowing with ground deer, steaks, bone in chicken, and organs, about 15lbs worth that I didn't seperate a couple nights ago. Ugggghhhh.

It takes SO LONG. Fellow raw feeders, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU?!

i do feed raw diet, but pre-made raw diet. it is way easier to prepare, and not as bad as dry food (Science Diet, Iams ect.) i feed finn a pre-made diet called the honest kitchen. if you get past the bad smell (it's pretty....unsettling) it's quick and easy to make. just make sure you use hot water and wait 3-5 minutes for the food to cool off.

[Cardinal]

Crying. I HAVE SO TO PORTION OUT. WHY DO I FEED RAW AGAIN!?

Picked up 82lbs of free meat today. 27lbs of deer and 55lbs of grass fed bull. Uggghhh. The two bottem drawers of my frige are over flowing with ground deer, steaks, bone in chicken, and organs, about 15lbs worth that I didn't seperate a couple nights ago. Ugggghhhh.

It takes SO LONG. Fellow raw feeders, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU?!

i do feed raw diet, but pre-made raw diet. it is way easier to prepare, and not as bad as dry food (Science Diet, Iams ect.) i feed finn a pre-made diet called the honest kitchen. if you get past the bad smell (it's pretty....unsettling) it's quick and easy to make. just make sure you use hot water and wait 3-5 minutes for the food to cool off.

I like the honest kitchen, its just not economical at all for us. We feed nearly 3lbs every day of raw meat/bones/organs. One dog gets 1.5ish lbs and the other 1.25lbs ish. We source a lot of stuff for free or very cheaply.

[Keeki]

Anyone able to help with introducing crazy dogs to half feral cats? cats came first....

[Cardinal]

Anyone able to help with introducing crazy dogs to half feral cats? cats came first....

A lot of it is going to be judging your dogs and going off of what you know about them. Do they have a lot of prey drive? Is there a place the cats can retreat? etc etc. Lots of things to think about.

You've had these pups for a while, right? If you haven't done intros yet I probably wouldn't bother now unless you now exactly how the dogs will act.

[Symmy]

I think what I am going to do when my dog arrives is basically let him release/use the bathroom and letting him go to sleep on his doggy bed. I will probably try and see if he wants to eat near the evening to resemble a "dinner time". Otherwise, I will wait until he heals (7-10 days) till he can start playing and taking walks again.

[Rainbow Dash]

@stricktlyspagetti
*Shepherd
She's gorgeous! At 5 months old,
she must be SUCH a handful, I
don't envy you xD I have a Rhodi mix
that was the absolute worst at 5 - 10
months old. Where'd you get Ruby?

That face is just too precious! I dunno why but dogs with eyebrows and the widow's peak are super cute to me. How big is s/he? We have a Rhodi mix puppy in our daycare who grew like a little weed and had to be moved out of small dogs into big dogs since she had too much energy and legs she didn't know how to handle.

[stricklyspagetti]

@stricktlyspagetti
*Shepherd
She's gorgeous! At 5 months old,
she must be SUCH a handful, I
don't envy you xD I have a Rhodi mix
that was the absolute worst at 5 - 10
months old. Where'd you get Ruby?

ah sorry i keep spelling that wrong i feel so bad >.<
we got her from pendigrass flea market. and yeah shes a bit handful. i've been planning to take her to a dog park soon to run her around a bit more than she can in our middle sized yard. shes a bit aggressive when it comes to you popping her on the nose for biting at your face because whenever your sitting with her, she might nip at your face and my mom dosent want her doing that (neither do i) so we pop her on the nose but she gets aggressive.
and shes adorable!

[Cardinal]

... I'd probably get aggressive to it you hot me in the face...

[.muse.]

@stricktlyspagetti
*Shepherd
She's gorgeous! At 5 months old,
she must be SUCH a handful, I
don't envy you xD I have a Rhodi mix
that was the absolute worst at 5 - 10
months old. Where'd you get Ruby?

ah sorry i keep spelling that wrong i feel so bad >.<
we got her from pendigrass flea market. and yeah shes a bit handful. i've been planning to take her to a dog park soon to run her around a bit more than she can in our middle sized yard. shes a bit aggressive when it comes to you popping her on the nose for biting at your face because whenever your sitting with her, she might nip at your face and my mom dosent want her doing that (neither do i) so we pop her on the nose but she gets aggressive.
and shes adorable!

Age old saying fighting fire with fire feels appropriate here...
Try redirection when she gets nippy.
Link got super mouthy with his teething, and would just randomly start gnawing your hand if his head was near your hand when he was laying on the couch. So we started keeping a toy within reach of both couches, whenever he would start to gnaw a hand or nip a hip (usually mine since he likes to lay with his head slammed up against my thigh while I'm on the comp), we'd just shove a toy in his mouth and let him take it out on that.
Massive improvement in just a week of that. I've not been hip nipped like two months now. And my hand only gets gnawed when I'm using my mouse and he's trying to hand me a toy to throw for him. But it's not painful gnawing, more of a quick mouthful of drool on my mouse hand since he doesn't close his mouth down on hands anymore, he just sticks his open mouth on them, >.<