[nagdu] Odie, what am I to do with You???

Mark J. Cadigan kramc11 at gmail.com
Tue May 8 19:41:49 UTC 2012


A thought is you could feed a raw diet. Giving them an enormous meaty bone 
sort of forces them to chew. I have the opposite problem. My dog eats way 
way slow. He picks up a peace, chews it, and then gets another.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lea williams" <leanicole1988 at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Odie, what am I to do with You???


>I know you can get for cats a ball with wholes and you put the food in
> it and the have to play with it to get the food out. Not sure if you
> dog will brake it though. Have you tried just pooring a smal bit in
> then wait a few minutes and add a few more?
>
> On 5/8/12, Criminal Justice Major <orleans24 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Yes, sub says it all.
>> Odie decided to swallow his food in whole again, adting as if he's never
>> been fed or just really hungry.
>> Just ten to twenty minutes ago, Dale had to pick him up and carry him to 
>> the
>> bathtub.
>> Odie then threw up.
>> Looks as if we'll have to go back to what we did earlier in the very
>> beginning: taking his food from him to be sure that he's chewing and
>> swallowing what is in his mouth completely and giv him his bowl back 
>> again.
>> I do have a couple of other options which I've not given up grying yet.
>> The first one I'm going to purchase a slow down ball which you stick 
>> inside
>> the bowl to make he/she have to search for the food.
>> Option B would be a bowl with divider columns, making it to where the dog
>> must slow down and each from each area of the bowl.
>> I hope that I can find a metal one though and not plastic since plastic
>> seems to wear out much faster.
>> Despite Odie's crazy quarks, Dale and I still love him very much as a 
>> member
>> of the family.
>> Bibi, husband Dale and son Odie
>> medical alert service dog
>> the happy spirited bounty labra wolf
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