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I'm doing better with my food but it is back to my boring routine. I have been focusing lots of time and energy on our new puppy Zeta who is adorable but she chews on everything and has some separation anxiety issues that we have to work on. She barks when we leave her. We have been trying hard to tire before we leave her alone but it isn't the total solution. A couple of the puppy books suggest giving the puppies a toy with peanut butter inside for them to try to lick out to distract them when you leave so I will try that. I will also try to teach her to bark on Command and teach her the Enough command for stopping barking. She is still pretty young though only 7 weeks so I don't know how much she can learn. She does seem to be learning to sit on command. Despite our best efforts she has had a few accidents in the house and in her crate where she peed but she hasn't pooped inside. She is so cute. As soon as I can I will put a picture of her on here.
I went today to get my bone scan. It took about 5 hrs. but thankfully I was able to come home and see the puppy for a while in the middle of the process. We are wondering if she is allergic to the corn in her Purina puppy chow because she is scratching a lot and she has had two flea baths so she should be flea free. We are thinking of changing her to Nature's Recipe but it is $14.50 for 8 lbs. compared to $4.50 for 8 lbs. for the Purina puppy chow. Ouch!
They actually scanned my whole body and not just my foot today. They even had me sit on the bone scanner which was weird. I go see my family doctor on Friday to get the results. I have a funny feeling that nothing is going to show up on it. I just hope she lets me stop using crutches. I used them at the hospital today and it was a huge pain.
Tomorrow all I have to do is spend time with my puppy - try to get back to my exercise routines (which I have missed for about three days now) and my other activities and go to therapy.
Diet Calendar Entry for 27 September 2010:
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970 kcal
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Fat: 64.04g | Prot: 59.26g | Carb: 48.08g.
Breakfast: Blueberries, Splenda, Baking powder, Cinnamon, Egg, Flax seeds. Lunch: Strawberries, Splenda, Cottage cheese. Dinner: Peanut butter. more...
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Good luck on your cute SMART puppy! I had my litter's sitting and doing downs on cue by hand and mouth by the time they were 5 weeks so she is very capapable of learning all sorts of stuff now! For goodness sakes get her off that crap food... sorry for being blunt but grocery store brands like purina dogchow... are the worst things you can put into your dog's body! A good midgrade price wise is Nutro, Avoderm (what I feed my dogs) and if you have a close by Petsmart their Authority is decent... these foods don't have by products and have protein as the first ingredient in the food which is what a puppy needs.
27 Sep 10 by member: Myree67
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We use only Purina, as that is what the Seeing Eye told my hubby that it was the only food they recommended for his Seeing Eye dogs. That has been a few years ago, but my vet has also told me that Purina is actually a good dog food. My dogs have been just fine on it for the last 30 years.
27 Sep 10 by member: ctlss
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I use only California Naturals. It is much healthier for them. They don't have to eat alot to be full and thier waste breaks down very easily. I have a couple old, retired dogs that are 15 and 16 years old and they are still full of vinegar. I give all the credit to Cal-Nat.
27 Sep 10 by member: LauPug1
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Ramble's dog trainer advised we get him the poshest puppy-food that we could afford as this early nutrition is most important. After he turned 1, we could switch to the supermarket specials (Tux!). We have stayed with Hills Science Diet, however his primary food is my own home made dog loaf: other than I don't bother peeling the veges, and my family wouldn't eat chicken hearts, it's practically healthy person-food with top grade (no fat) beef mince, hearts (or chicken livers), brown rice and lots and lots of veges. ___________ Incidentally, when our beloved wee cat started occasionally throwing up, our vet diagnosed a food allergy (to the expensive Hills Science Diet) and he recommended we switch her to Purina, so it can't be that bad. ______________ Wow: toilet trained that young? Ramble was banished to the laundry room for several weeks before we could trust him to have unsupervised run of the house. Mind you, we never bothered with a crate as the laundry could be lined with newspaper and closed off. Now-a-days when we go out, he's left home alone and has been fine (no damage to furniture). We tried the Kong with peanut butter but he was never interested, though I suspect that's the 3/4 poodle - not food focused - talking, not the 1/4 lab'! What he absolutely loves is a soft duck toy - with a "quacker" inside - but sadly they don't last long before he has it disemboweled and we have to get the quacker out in case he swallows it. I'm just about to put a picture up on the Dog Lover Group...
27 Sep 10 by member: Ruby_Jewell
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Very interesting pet food article in the UK's Daily Mail (dailymail.co.uk) this weekend said that dogs do much better eating raw food, including bones, "just as they would do in the wild" and investigation showed that the US petfood manufacturers were "the worst" for additives and inferior, often unnamed, products like ash, bones and cereals that would be banned from human foods. Also read (after my ex-=husbands 3 Cairns all died from kidney complications) that dry food is to be avoided because dogs don't tend to drink enough water. Whatever you do, make sure you've clued yourself up just as if you were eating it yourself. Or cook it yourself, like Ruby. My dogs? They eat Pedigree Small Dog sachet food and kibble, lots of carrots and raw mushrooms (I think Sam was a vegetarian in a past life), but are partial to the odd bowl of uncooked pig's liver and other inexpensive meat (but not the bones). They are fine at 5 and 6 years and haven't had any allergies. I am VERY impressed at the housetraining achievement! Well done you! And well done and welcome to Zeta!!
28 Sep 10 by member: chrisa1uk
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