Penny & Greenies

[Lady's Human]

You have made some contradictory and inflammatory statements:


My dog won't be healthy if I feed him Dog Chow, he will be healthy if I feed him premium food.

Followed by:

I too agree to feed only what your dog does best on...

As to what to feed a dog, when I was growing up we got a puppy who had ricketts, fed her what the vet suggested to get her over the ricketts, and for the rest of her life fed her "cheap low grade" kibble, table scraps, and god forbid, bits of chocolate on occassion. This malnourished, abused dog lived to be 14, quite an old age for a dog who was 1/2 Great Dane and started off her life with a nutritional ailment.

And a statement guaranteed to upset people who feed their dog Kibbles'n Bits

"Kibbles 'N Bits is filled with crap and poisonous preservatives. "

I have known plenty of dogs who have been fed kibbles 'n bits, dog chow, etc, who have done fine, had healthy, shiny coats, and lived to be old animals in good health.

When you state your beliefs as the gospel truth, it tends to irritate people. I would suggest choosing words a little more carefully, you'll ruffle less feathers.

[Crazy-Cat-Lover]

It's not humour when he/she was clearly leaning the post towards me. Making me feel like a bag of crap.

I deleted my posts and would appreciate if others would delete the quotes. I feel this is not my place to post, since everytime I do, it turns into a heated conversation.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I can't believe this Greenie subject is back again. My dogs love greenies. They don't get them everyday because of the expense, but they do get them. I agree that they are as safe (if not safer) than other chews.

Though this thread isn't about feeding raw, I'll add my opinion on that too. I personally don't believe that just because a wolf chases down, kills, and eats a rabbit that it means pet dogs should be eating raw meat too. Dogs are not savages, they are domesticated pets. (NOTE: I'm not saying a dog who eats raw is a savage, I'm saying wolves are.) I personally am not a fan of feeding raw, it's simply not for me. I'm not going to tell someone who does feed raw that it's wrong, same as I don't need someone telling me that feeding kibble is wrong.

Also for the record, I wouldn't feed Kibbles & Bits, however some dogs do actually do fine on it. My grandma had a lab who lived to be 13, not too bad for a lab. He was a farm dog, he ran in the fields, he drank and played in the creek. He often slept outside at night. He ate kibbles & Bits and table scraps. He was never sick. He started slowing down do to arthritis when he was 12 or 13. My grandma had him put down at 13 because of the arthritis. I'm not saying he wouldn't have done as well or better on a better diet, but it didn't seem to really hurt him at all.

[Crazy-Cat-Lover]

Oh my, this was too wierd not to post here...

Thursday, March 9, 2006

Gemini Horoscope

Your Thursday Horoscope Nattasha!

A communication breakdown is likely. You will have spoken too soon or too confidently about a matter you know little about. To be quoted on the subject later will be potentially embarrassing.