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Sylvie,what a beautiful girl Miss Bree is and how sad that she has spent most of her life in a kennel
I suppose to many breeders,if a dog cannot produce anymore,she's no longer of any use to the breeder. Miss Bree is a lucky girl,what could have happened to her,if you did not come along I am certain with your loving care she will lose her insecurity soon
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Thank you Chico, I sure hope so. It breaks my heart to see her so afraid of me. But I do notice she is looking at the other dogs and trying to follow their lead.
At least she pee'd this morning, just need her to poop now. I just need to be patient with her.
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Sylvie, how sad that she is so nervous of everything. I'm sure though that with time she will take the cue from the other dogs and learn to relax and trust again. I agree with Mirela that everything I've heard says not to mix raw and kibble in one meal. You might want to be careful with that.
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With your TLC she will feel at home in no time Sylvie
What Mirela said about not feeding raw and kibble in the same meal due to different digestion rates, from what I understand it should not be done Sylvie. |
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She is just beautiful! With her new loving home she is going to blossom and come out of her shell in no time
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Ditto.
Sylvie , your best bet would be to give kibble 2 hours apart from the raw. And if she still hasn't poop , maybe a tablespoon of pumpkin puree (not the pie filling , the 100% pumpkin puree) twice a day with her meals. she sounds like a puppy mill dog they're always more comfy around other dogs but , you can use that. Once she sees that your other dogs are not afraid of you , she'll caught on. with time and patience ... but she will. keep us posted |
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If you could stick with raw, I guess it might be better for her. Was she fed raw before? - then she might do better if you could continue.
There is an entire subforum here to help you with this type of feeding. I don't feed raw so I cannot advise first hand but there are members here who do. I'm sure if you open a new thread with this type of questions you will get a lot of good responses. However, a good brand of kibble, grain free, should work as well. The transitioning process - perhaps "cold turkey" could work but I would suggest to give her a bit of time before you do that. Right now the poor girl has had enough changes in her life and needs some time to adjust to everything. IMO - for now just feed her raw at one meal and kibble at the other - what brand are you using? - and make sure she poops OK and pees regularly. Then you could reassess her diet in a couple of weeks. Just my Good luck. |
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I am feeding her Origen.
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Macie behaved very similarly when she first arrived, Sylvie. Cass and Cole took her under their paw and taught her to play and enjoy herself. She slowly thawed, but it took a couple of months. She's going to learn a lot by watching your dogs. Just give her time and watch her blossom!
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I don't feed raw but I know there is a lot of controversy on the internet about not feeding with kibble because of the different digestion rates.
According to Lew Olsen who has a PHD in Nutrition and owns the b-naturals.com website and also the K-9 Nutrition website it is fine to feed both kibble and raw together as long as the raw does not contain any bone. I have some information about it saved from one of her newsletters and will go find it and then post it here. |
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Okay, here is the information from http://www.b-naturals.com/newsletter/changing-diets/ .....
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And, here is a question and the answer (in blue) from the archives of k-9 nutrition http://onibasu.com/archives/kn/121809.html .... Quote:
And, another one that was answered by Mary Straus who used to be a moderator there but now owns the dogaware.com website and writes articles for the Whole Dog Journal http://onibasu.com/archives/kn/150921.html .... Quote:
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Thank you for all of your info Rainbow. It is helpful. I decided to go cold turkey and I am feeding her the kibble. She has started to pee and poo (although not in the right place yet) and loves the kibble, no problem with her eating.
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Sylvie - How's Breedie doing?
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I agree, you shouldn't mix raw with anything else!
She's beautiful!!! And.. so are you for rescuing her!! |
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Bree as she is now being called is doing quite well. She looks to our old girl Shadow for protection. It is really cute. If Shadow leaves the room then Bree follows her.
Shadow seems to like her. We switched her from raw to Orijen and she seems to be doing well on the Orijen. I will try to work on loading the pictures this weekend.
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Sylvie,I am so happy for Bree,I am sure she'll soon realize,what a lucky girl she is and life for her,from now on will be wonderful(as soon as she starts pooping in the right place)
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Thanks for the update Sylvie. Sounds like Bree (love it!) is going to be a wonderful companion once she has life at Sylvie's house figured out.
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What I find amazing too is that they all figure out how to get along and each learn diffierent things from one another??? Shadow is a good girl to follow the ropes with!!
Hopefully Winston didnt teach her any bad habits last week....I think he is still looking for his ball!!
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No no ball left...I was joking about Bree stealing his ball!
He always misses you guys you know that!! okay here is another sweet pic! I have to share! good luck tomorrow!!!!!
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Such a sweet pic.
And, I'm glad to hear that Bree likes the Orijen. |
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I'm surprised that nobody commented on the feeding raw and kibble together info that I posted. I'm going to repost it in a new thread in the Raw Food Forum as I'm interested to see other opinions.
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Interesting that the raw and kibble together controversy has come up here. It's being discussed on another forum I visit and no one can come up with any science to back up the notion that they are bad together. Certainly the idea that they digest at different rates and that one holds up the other is disputed. Several folks seem to be feeding raw and kibble in the same meal just fine. I think it's going to be like corn in dog food, OK for some, not for others. Or the notion of switching foods gradually, again, required for some, not for others.
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