Green beans? Hummm. I'll have to let her know. So far my sister is doing great with the dog. They took her on two walks today and took her to the lake. They got her swimming a bit and even got her to go after a ball twice (they just didn't throw it too far).
My sister has good common sense when working with her dog. They already have taught her that bedrooms are off-limits and keep her out of the kitchen during mealtimes.
They plan on walking her twice a day and are going to switch to a better food after the Avoderm is gone and will be doing some supplements with yogurt and maybe some lean choppped chicken being very careful with her portions.
I think she'll be looking good in no time. My sister and her husband are very fit people and enjoy the outdoors so she'll be getting lots of activity I'm sure. But their trying to start her off slow until she gets in better shape.
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Good for them! They will change this dog's life (and health and longevity).
Yeah, that green bean thing has been around for years but I always ignored it because of the heavy cell walls in fresh ones and the salt in canned ones. But the no-salt canned ones seem OK to me.... as lomg as you're not looking to them to provide many vitamins! LOL
A club member whose dog got pretty chunky was having a tough time bearing up under the dog's disappointment when he looked at his moderate-size supper, so she decided to fluff it up with the beans. He was happier with more stuff to swallow instead of eating the whole meal on one inhalation.
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Our dogs get some kind of canned veggies on their dinners every night as a filler. Alistair's favorite is pumpkin. Elvis is an asparagus fan. Xena just loves everything. Of course we don't feed anything toxic but they just get so hungry with plain kibble. If we fed them enough to be full they'd get fat. The veggies helped a ton when we were first reducing our dogs weight to good levels.
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Checked out PetCo recently? They're carrying more of the good foods. My mom was able to get Pet Promise canned for our foster which is a good no byproduct food.
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Our dogs get some kind of canned veggies on their dinners every night as a filler. Alistair's favorite is pumpkin. Elvis is an asparagus fan. Xena just loves everything. Of course we don't feed anything toxic but they just get so hungry with plain kibble. If we fed them enough to be full they'd get fat. The veggies helped a ton when we were first reducing our dogs weight to good levels.
That's cool! I don't feed lots of produce (although I absolutely do give some), but I do think that soft almost-no-cal green vegs are a good way to fill up the hungry-but-not-so-slim dog's bowl.
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Checked out PetCo recently? They're carrying more of the good foods. My mom was able to get Pet Promise canned for our foster which is a good no byproduct food.
I am impressed. I was looking at Pet Promise canned bison recipe in the health-food store recently and thought that it looked pretty good.
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I'm using green beans with no added salt to get my 15 year old sheltie mix back down..........gave her a summer haircut and realized that she's porked out a bit and she's got bad legs as it is. What i like about them is she can get a bunch and feel pretty full.........usually 1 chicken neck or 1 chicken wing along with her supplements and a bunch of green beans and she acts like she's gotten a feast! Good thing too, she's turned into a total chow hound as she's aged!
I havn't checked out Petco lately. Petsmart is closest and really they don't have a whole lot. My sister does have a Petco near her house. So I'll tell her to check it out. I mostly go to our local pet store that carries better products than Petsmart.
I wonder if she'll like green beans or pumpkin. Considering her weight I bet she'll eat most anything.
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