Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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... I know it sounds easy to just tell him to buy good quality kibble, or at least the same kind of bad kibble every time but with him.. let's just say I would end up having to do it. He just doesn't have the desire to spend the money or doesn't have the effort to "remember" to get the same kind of food. I'm sure I've said it before, it's just a very frustrating situation. We'll try the green beans and olive oil. Thanks again!
There is no advantage at all to buying the same kind every time. At least he is helping in some small way to cover more nutritional bases when he switches around. (There's no advantage to buying the same kind of good kibble all the time, either.)
Variety is the only way to even hope to hit most of the nutritional bases. The chances are terrible with crap-in-a-bag, of course, but they are definitely not improved by sticking to the same one.
As far as upping the quality -- THAT can save him some bucks. That might be a good thing to point out. Not just vet bucks, but quantity-needed-to-feed bucks ....
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I know variety is good, I just think it would be hard to determine how much of what food he should get, no? I wish the vet bills were a good argument, but with him it might not be. I'm almost positive that Carl is cryptorchid. We've shown him the dangerously high cancer rates in cryptorchid dogs, and he just said he'll get it checked out the next time he needs to go to the vet. He didn't think that time was now apparently. If I had the extra cash I would honestly take Carl myself. Maybe with this jumping situation he'll start taking our dog advice more seriously...
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I know variety is good, I just think it would be hard to determine how much of what food he should get, no?
I'm really not trying to be argumentative, but how would buying the same one every time help do that? That is, all of them have feeding directions on the package. They are all based on the same standards of required protein (and other requirements) based on the dog's size. They'll differ based on the ingredients, but still -- the directions are still right there on the bag. You might go lower (I would), but I'd go lower on all of them ....
Or did you mean that if he bought the same one all the time, he wouldn't ever have to read the label after the first time?
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Haha, that could work. Even before switching Conan to good quality food we never went off the directions on the bag. We still don't now. I've never really gone by the weight of the dog, more if they have defined waists and you can easily feel the ribs (but they aren't visible). Maybe I shouldn't. We haven't really gone by weight because of how large Conan is for a Corgi. Standard is 12" at the shoulder and 25lbs. Conan is 13" tall and 32lbs. He would be emaciated at 25 I think. But some people are real caught up on the No Corgi Should Be Over 25lbs rule.
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I should add that, from experience, using the recommended amount of food has always caused Conan to gain weight. I think I forgot to say that. My brain likes to cut out valuable pieces of information sometimes
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Yeah, I sort of realized all that after typing it and re-reading it. Apparently I have the ability to think out loud on the Internet too!
I know he really cares about Carl, he just doesn't know how I guess. Or he thinks his way is the right way. He just has a general attitude of "oh he's fine." I know many dogs and cats live entire lives on grainy foods, but if I have the knowledge I can't not use it! Thanks to this site and board I'm able to at least get some sort of knowledge. I have so many questions still, and I've already learned so much.
P.S. Never worry about sounding argumentative with me. I come here asking for your help, I would never try to argue over your advice. I hope I didn't sound that way! I ask because I either don't know at all, or think I could be wrong. I'm more than happy to be shown the right way of things
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You might go lower (I would), but I'd go lower on all of them ....
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