The dog thread is better than the cat thread, because it features dogs.

[Saffy]

Aww hello Quincy.

 

[quiet guy]

Quincy looks like he's going to be a real live wire

 

[eatmorecheese]

Quincy looks like he's going to be a real live wire

Strangely, he is pretty cuddly on the sofa, much calmer than our year-old Border Collie Jess, who never slows down. They are getting on well, plenty of romping

 

[Epona]

I met an absolutely lovely bulldog yesterday, absolutely gorgeous colour it was (a very rich reddish-brown, I'd not seen one quite that shade before) and it seemed to be breathing alright even in its excitement to see me which is good. Very sweet and friendly, was dead happy when I stopped to say hello (with permission from its human ofc!)

 

[Callie]

I'm at the seaside stroking all the dogs

 

[BoatieBird]

I gave the dogs a chicken foot earlier, Sunny's is long gone.
I don't think Dub really wants his, but he's determined to hang on to it so Sunny can't have it.
He's spent the last half hour or so wandering around like this

 

[Looby]

Any recommendations for a good cooked dog food that won’t bankrupt us?
All 3 raw fed but Lucy is poorly today and the emergency vet was slightly horrified our vet hadn’t told us not to feed her raw because of her sarcoma.

I’ve bought some Wainwrights trays for a few days and she’ll have steamed fish and chicken until her stomach settles.
Someone suggested butternut box but I’m assuming that’s going to be well expensive.

We’ve also come away with a shitload of drugs. Amitriptyline, Gabapentin, cocodamol, antibiotics.

Feels like a big jump in her care which has freaked me out. I cried all through the appointment which was slightly ridiculous.

 

[Rebelda]

Any recommendations for a good cooked dog food that won’t bankrupt us?
All 3 raw fed but Lucy is poorly today and the emergency vet was slightly horrified our vet hadn’t told us not to feed her raw because of her sarcoma.

I’ve bought some Wainwrights trays for a few days and she’ll have steamed fish and chicken until her stomach settles.
Someone suggested butternut box but I’m assuming that’s going to be well expensive.

We’ve also come away with a shitload of drugs. Amitriptyline, Gabapentin, cocodamol, antibiotics.

Feels like a big jump in her care which has freaked me out. I cried all through the appointment which was slightly ridiculous.

We use butternut. Can send you a discount code if you want to try it? I think it probably is eye watering for a big dog though

 

[two sheds]

Like this? Wet Dog Food | 100% Natural | Buy Online at Naturediet

Cosmo had that for the 12 years she was with me, loved it. Frankie seems really keen too. I do though just mix in 1/4 or 1/5 of a packet with warm water as a gravy with dry food. I get it from various people online.

 

[Saunders]

Chappie (the original, rather than the chicken) is worth a try. It’s cheap and seems gentle on a sensitive stomach, it was the only shop bought wet food that didn’t give my old greyhound dire rear.
Could you cook the meat the others have raw?
I make stew for mungo with meat veg and rice or pasta. He has about 1lb meat a day, which I get for £1-1.50 two handfuls of cheap mixed veg and 2 handfuls rice or pasta, all cooked together. He weighs about 20kilos and is fairly active, I fed the same to my old grey who weighed 30 kilos but was less active.
Meat is variously those frozen blocks from pet food shops, butchers scraps or cheap supermarket.

 

[Epona]

Feels like a big jump in her care which has freaked me out. I cried all through the appointment which was slightly ridiculous.

Absolutely not ridiculous, been there, done that.

 

[Looby]

We use butternut. Can send you a discount code if you want to try it? I think it probably is eye watering for a big dog though

Thanks, that would be great. I expect there’ll be a spreadsheet today.

 

[Looby]

Thanks all, adding everything to the list to check out. She said don’t cook what we use as it has bone in it. Shame as she absolutely loves her Wolftucker complete food.

We could cook all her food separately but it might be simpler to move all three onto something else.
She’s got basa fillets and carrots tonight.

Currently off her tits on morphine and hopefully about to have a good snooze.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Plain boiled rice is good for dogs when they're poorly (to add to the chicken or fish).

 

[Looby]

Next challenge, trying to give her medication. She’s off her food so rejecting the gabapentin hidden in a a ball of bread. She’s so stubborn!

 

[Steel Icarus]

Next challenge, trying to give her medication. She’s off her food so rejecting the gabapentin hidden in a a ball of bread. She’s so stubborn!

I've used cheese before, but it depends on the dog. One of mine checks everything, another would catch and eat a cactus if you tossed it his way

 

[Saffy]

I tend to drop her pills in the floor and yell at her to leave it. She jumps on it and gobbles it up thinking she's got one over on me.

 

[Elpenor]

We used to make a big thing of hiding it, sometimes by his water bowl, sometimes on the outside of the washing machine porthole. Made a game of it.

Sometimes the cheeky sod would lick the sugar off and then spit it out: in that case it was in the mouth and tickle his throat to make him swallow

 

[BoatieBird]

Cream cheese works for Dub, a blob on my finger with the pill inside and he's too busy licking to notice there's something in there.

I tend to drop her pills in the floor and yell at her to leave it. She jumps on it and gobbles it up thinking she's got one over on me.

This is genius

 

[Epona]

I tend to drop her pills in the floor and yell at her to leave it. She jumps on it and gobbles it up thinking she's got one over on me.

That's bloody brilliant, I wish it would work with cats

 

[UnderOpenSky]

It's been a long day. Once upon a time we said the dog wouldn't come on the sofa...

 

[UnderOpenSky]

And again...

 

[Steel Icarus]

Mrs Catsbum is away for five days. I feel bad enough but Dax in particular is sad when she's not at home. I wish I could tell her she'll be back!

 

[Saffy]

Mrs Catsbum is away for five days. I feel bad enough but Dax in particular is sad when she's not at home. I wish I could tell her she'll be back!

My husband's going away with work for a few days. He's had his suitcase and laptop bag in the dining room and been rushing about packing and Cassie is moping about following him. She actually ended up sitting in his case. Poor Cassie hates change.

 

[hegley]

My cats are typically cattish about taking pills but the last time I was at the vets and they needed pills I bought a pack of these (thinking I was throwing money away). Total revelation - the cats loved them and didn't spit the pills. They do a doggo version too.

 

[eatmorecheese]

Quincy, haunted by the fact he knows nothing about forensic medicine

 

[Saunders]

Quincy, haunted by the fact he knows nothing about forensic medicine
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He really is rather gorgeous

 

[weltweit]

It's been a long day. Once upon a time we said the dog wouldn't come on the sofa...

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Such a good looking dawg

 

[Epona]

Quincy, haunted by the fact he knows nothing about forensic medicine
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He's lovely, but how is he going to solve the case?

 

[D'wards]

Facilitated a private adoption between my friends brother and my cousin for Veeya, a ginormous staffie.
She is too strong and pulls, so the wife of the family couldn't walk her with her kids, so she rarely went out as the husband works long hours.
My cousin is a strong lad though, and has been in the doldrums a bit lately, and this has pulled him out of his funk.
They made a connection immediately completely bonded in days