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

Wed May 9 01:41:09 UTC 2012

Nicole,

Yes, I was told the same thing at TSE. The awesome thing is that Emma is a
GSD, so she stresses over the smallest of details in her life. I am saying
that she is a slow eater at home. 

Marsha 

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From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Nicole B. Torcolini at Home
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 8:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Odie, what am I to do with You???

At GDB, they tell you that your dog may get stressed out when traveling and 
not eat. Our particular class had all lab and lab/golden crosses. When they 
told us about dogs getting stressed out, they jokingly said that none of us 
would have to worry about it as we all had labs. Lexia is a moderate eater. 
She does not chow down, nor does she eat to slow. To me, it is comparatively

slow because our pet dog practically swallows her food whole. As a matter of

fact, our pet dog cannot eat the dental food that Lexia eats because she 
chokes on it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marsha Drenth" <marsha.drenth at gmail.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Odie, what am I to do with You???

> Mark,
>
> Your pup is just like Emma. Emma has to be the slowest eater ever. When I
> was in class at TSE, they would give us the food, she would eat as I gave 
> it
> to her just as soon as I was given the food. But every single morning I 
> was
> the last one out always. Usually every one else was in and done by the 
> time
> I was even thinking about going out. This made me late every morning for
> breakfast. Emma takes 30 minutes for one scoop of food. Its one bite, 
> drink
> some water, think, one more bite, and repeat. Its painful. And now with 
> Emma
> taking medicine for her EPI the process is long as her food has to stand 
> for
> 20 minutes before she can have it.
>
> Marsha, with Emma the slowest eater ever!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Mark J. Cadigan
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 3:42 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Odie, what am I to do with You???
>
> 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"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> 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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