DOGS

Your sweet lil Lacy tears stuff up?  Say it ain't so...funny, none of our critters have ever torn up stuff...wonder why that is?

The bitter apple sprays available at the pet store are usually pretty effective at preventing Fido from chewing up what Fido is not suppose to chew up.

Powdered alum does the trick also...mix with water and make a paste...one taste and you want no more of that...probably close to brushing your teeth with preparation H.

I tried the bitter apple. Eli likes it.

I have to watch my GSPs carefully with bones. They crack them and that results in sharp splinters. When that starts I confiscate them and ditch 'em— over protests of course.

Quit giving my dogs bones a long time ago, my Old English Sheepdog Columbo, quit eating and drinking for about 3 days, I was in the middle of a turnaround when wife says some thing is wrong with Colombo. I tried to open his mouth and he wouldn’t let me, finally got it open and a bone was piercing his upper mouth, got a pair of pliers and finally gor it out, the wife had given him some soup bones, one had a sharp point. After that no bones for my dogs, I want to say my dogs eat as good as I do, but no bones.

Try the powdered alum.

If he likes that you might have a cyborg dog, and it is just a matter of time till he neutralizes you.

These are mostly flat blade bones. knuckles and some leg long bones. No small bones.

Too cute!

She finally ripped up her 5 year old Lambchop so I broke down and got her a new one. She carries it everywhere.

Made our puppy some dog food today. A mixture of brown rice, chicken breast and scrambled eggs. Make it about once a month as a supplement to her regular dog food.
She has a sensitive digestive system. Nothing too debilitating, but if she eats the wrong thing, she'll have diarrhea for a week to 10 days, and most of the time we don't know exactly what it was that set her off.
AND, if she goes without eating for 6 to 7 hours, she throws up. I have to feed her at midnight to get her through the night. Hopefully she will out grow it, but she's more than a year old now.

The homemade food is gentle on her system. I made it for our last dog who needed it due to extreme old age.
And we recently switched her regular dog food to one for sensitive stomachs.
So far, so good. She hasn't had any problems for 3 months now.

We give Lacy these probiotics we get from Amazon and they seem to make a huge difference.
LEGITPET Probiotics for Dogs with Natural Digestive Enzymes + Prebiotics for Allergy & Itch Relief + Coprophagia Treatment & Anti Diarrhea for Dogs

Sadly, I've just had to complain for a second time about the noise from my neighbor's dog. They bought it, and then changed nothing about their lives or schedules. They go off and leave it alone all day, every day, including most evenings and weekends. They come home and let it out for 10 minutes before bedtime, and that's about it. Unsurprisingly, it gets lonely, barks, whines, and howls, like it's doing now.

The dog's gonna get the raw end of the deal, but the problem is the owners. Knuckin' fuckleheads.

I mean, people make mistakes.  They get in over their heads sometimes.  That's okay.  But then you have to do something about it.  You don't just leave it for everybody else (including the poor dog, in this case) to deal with.