 Re: Experience with rescue dogs (sato, dump dogs)?
[Re: Simon Tai ]
#288720 - 07/29/2010 09:01 PM |
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That sure doesn't seem like much food.
What are you feeding him?
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Re: Experience with rescue dogs (sato, dump dogs)?
[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#288721 - 07/29/2010 09:06 PM |
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I wouldn't worry about the crate for one second.
He does walks, right? And he goes places? It's not at all weird that a newish rescue dog who is indoors prefers his "den."
And the tail not being up? I know I'm harping on marker training too much, but you will be so surprised at the confidence level that the dog reaches as he learns and is rewarded by his own new behaviors. He will also learn to play. Remember when you first got him? Look at how different he is after 4 short weeks!
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My most recent rescue took many months to go from tucked tail to flag. Now he is a feisty little senior, always ready to chase something, and when he came, he hung back from all people, watching everyone warily from a distance, ducking his head if he thought someone was going to touch him. (Now if he thinks someone might touch him, he flips onto his back, spread out like a starfish, and pleads for a belly-rub.)
Yea we take him on 4 walks a day: 2 short 15 minute potty walks and 2 longer 30-45 minutes ones around the area. And my wife take him out for half hour runs twice a week. He's generally very good on the walks. He only tugs/jumpy if he's scared or there's lots of people/noises.
Thanks for the reassurance about the crate and behavior/marker training. It really builds confidence in the handler (me) and reminds me to be patient through this teaching/learning process. Thank you.
Louie!
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Re: Experience with rescue dogs (sato, dump dogs)?
[Re: Jennifer Lee ]
#288722 - 07/29/2010 09:19 PM |
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That sure doesn't seem like much food.
What are you feeding him?
Not much food at all. That's why I feel bad not feeding him to try to build food drive.
We feed him a combination of Nature's Variety grain free kibble with some meat (so far tried cooked chicken meat, ground beef, chicken liver). Eventually I do want to go raw but must finish this 40lb bag of kibble first. We feed him 6-8 oz at a time (8am, 6pm, 11pm) and he's only finished the whole bowl completely twice. And that's after not touching his food the previous 2 meals. He always seems to hit a wall after a certain point. Also he likes tipping his bowl over sometimes. Not sure why he does that.
Louie!
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Re: Experience with rescue dogs (sato, dump dogs)?
[Re: Simon Tai ]
#288725 - 07/29/2010 09:29 PM |
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http://www.workingdogs.com/doc0179.htm made with tuna instead of liver is completely irresistible. It'll stink your house up but I've used it for low food drive dogs. You get a few hundred training treats out of it. Freeze the pieces after they're cooked and it will stay together better. I've also had 3 completely different based training bags(1 tuna, 1 bacon, 1 cheese/beef) that I randomly grabbed from for a special case with no drive of any kind. Dogs are gamblers. They will work harder for a jackpot reward if they don't get it every time but get it often enough to know it still exists.
The daily meals are so important for an underweight dog. When we had underweight rescues they ate a dry/canned mix 3 times a day. You could also look into "satin balls" or a food like the natural balance meat rolls to get a higher amount of calories into a dog that won't eat much. The food rolls are generally so appealing to dogs you can use them as treats too.
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Re: Experience with rescue dogs (sato, dump dogs)?
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#288726 - 07/29/2010 09:34 PM |
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Canned tuna or fresh tuna?
Louie!
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Re: Experience with rescue dogs (sato, dump dogs)?
[Re: Simon Tai ]
#288727 - 07/29/2010 09:35 PM |
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Have you tried mixing any canned in with it to make it more palatable?
Or hot water to make it smellier?
Is this the only kibble you have tried with him?
I'm guessing he lived off of trash for most of his life, and was probably used to empty and upset stomach a lot of the time.
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Re: Experience with rescue dogs (sato, dump dogs)?
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#288728 - 07/29/2010 09:36 PM |
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Canned tuna or fresh tuna?
Canned
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Re: Experience with rescue dogs (sato, dump dogs)?
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#288731 - 07/29/2010 09:43 PM |
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Have you tried mixing any canned in with it to make it more palatable?
Or hot water to make it smellier?
Is this the only kibble you have tried with him?
I've tried pouring some home made chicken broth into the kibbles to better flavor it. It did help in the beginning to get him to start eating the kibbles, but he still hits that wall and stops eating no matter what kind of food we give him. And of course when it's a kibble/meat mix he'll pick out the meat first and leave some kibble. That said, we've given him 8 ozs of pure cooked meat (chicken/steak/etc) and he won't finish the whole thing.
He was VERY malnourished/anoexeric looking when we first got him. Over the past month we can see him filling in a little bit, albeit very slowly.
Louie!
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Re: Experience with rescue dogs (sato, dump dogs)?
[Re: Simon Tai ]
#288775 - 07/30/2010 07:00 AM |
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Simon, one thing you may want to consider is adding a good probiotic capsule (beneficial bacteria, like the type found in yogurt) to his food daily. This will help replenish his gut flora, leading to better digestion and overall health, IMO.
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Re: Experience with rescue dogs (sato, dump dogs)?
[Re: Lynne Barrows ]
#288778 - 07/30/2010 07:19 AM |
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Have you tried putting half his food in the dish, and dumping half on a mat near the dish? Maybe he will eat more if he has to scavange a bit...
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