Getting bigger now..

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Originally uploaded by chipnjo1999

i have had problems getting the dog to eat......but not anymore. i had contemplated the BARF diet (raw food diet like whole chickens and beef bones, etc.), but that isnt any less expensive than commercial dog food. i have thought about pouring butter and gravy in her food. she is just so thin.

but, today, the light bulb went on!

i was in petsmart pricing different brands of food. after all i've read about kibble, its all crap. corn, wheat, oats....filler, filler, filler. some of which cause allergies in boxers. purina....crap. science diet....crap. iams, eukanuba, nature's science.....all crap. too many fillers and not enough actual meat. some are $20 a bad, some are $50, but all are crap.

so, if you are going to have to feed your dog crap, you may as well save the money and feed the cheapest crap you can find.

however, i looked at the canned food. how can they put corn in canned food w/o it looking like stew? well, most of them dont. they dont have the fillers. so, we are getting somewhere. and, again, they are all about the same independent of price.

so, why not supplement? you are supposed to vary the diets anyway. so, i bought a can of beef chunkies with gravy.....for a buck....and brought it home.

do you remember the smell of ALPO when the can opens? JACKPOT! an actual meaty, dog food smell. that got her going. but, canned food is not cheap when compared to dry, is it? so, you BLEND the two.......haha YAHTZEEEEEEE!

two tablespoons of meat chunkies and gravy mixed into a 3/4 cup of kibble, and presto. she ate like a freaking champ. she woofed (pardon the pun) that down in less than 5 minutes......licked clean. you couldnt tell the bowl had food in it...ever. a big drink of water, 15 minutes later a big you know what in the backyard, and 30 minutes of romping in the snow, and one hell of a nap!

now, i have a near perfect dog. and, that isn't likely to change soon. there will be no problem getting her to eat 2-3 cups of food per day now. she will fill out and i can easily control the intake now so she wont get too fat.

huge weight lifted off my shoulder because she was looking like one of the Serangheti Lions on nature shows that a vulture can kick the living crap out of. sort of like the kind of target they were looking for in my grandfather's cartoon.

"Patience, hell, let's kill something."

PHEW!!!!