Update on finicky dog

Texasmark1 · Oct 20, 2013

Was rummaging around the freezer yesterday and found some farm raised catfish chunks. Chunks as compared to fillets, are the undesirable parts of the fish like the meat (and fat) around the belly. I accidentally bought them meaning to get fillets.

Anyway I fixed the dog a pot of stew:

1 lb cut up catfish chunks
3 small apples chopped (likes apples but won't eat canned food)
1 can of non sugared fruit cocktail (likes fruit)
2 cans of Alpo Beef Chunks in gravy chopped (snuck in on her)
1 can of chicken broth
1 dozen small carrots chopped (likes carrots)
1 tablespoon of Worchestershire Sauce (likes human seasoning)
1 teaspoon of Lawry's Seasoned Salt (ditto as no salt in D food)

Simmered for about an hour and she was at my side the whole time. Served her up a bowl of it and she couldn't wait for it to cool.

Whoofed it down.

Finally I won one!

Mark

Anonymous-0 · Oct 20, 2013

Had a black lab a few years back that would eat anything. She would stand by me and beg anytime I was eating something. The only thing she would not eat was a bite of banana.

KYfarm · Oct 20, 2013

our dog, basset hound female, will eat anything there is also

except banana....thought she was the only one

Michael Soldan · Oct 20, 2013

We had a farm dog that would go out into the sweetcorn patch,pull a cob off and go under a tree and chew up the cob until he ate all the sweetcorn off it...go figure and they are called carnivores

oleozz · Oct 20, 2013

That almost sounds good enough for human consumption!!

Nancy Howell · Oct 20, 2013

We have a female basset named Lola. She is a great dog and adores James.

RBnSC · Oct 20, 2013

Thought about you this week when My cousin admitted that because of the allergies thier dog has they bought dog food that cost $92 for a 25lb. bag.
Ron

old popper · Oct 20, 2013

My old yellow lab is getting quite old and has problems with her teeth. (won't eat dry dog food any more) I feed her a softer variety, but she still likes her favorite snack. Cheetos.

js305 · Oct 20, 2013

Everyone should have the perfect dog at least once in their life. I have had one, only lived four years, but Beau was a jewel.

His eating habits were mine. If it went in my mouth, he wanted it too. I never found anything he wouldn't eat, including oranges, pickles, any kind of meat of course, bananas, you name it. He loved vanilla creme cookies too. He would separate them and eat the filling first, then the rest. As far as dog food goes, he would eat it too. He was about 2/3 Heeler and some kind of shepherd mix. His momma was 14 years old when he was born and wouldn't nurse him, so I had to clean him up and bottle feed him. Kidneys quit on him at age four. I will find him sometime later and relive old times.

Matt in TN · Oct 20, 2013

(quoted from post at 08:53:04 10/20/13) Was rummaging around the freezer yesterday and found some farm raised catfish chunks. Chunks as compared to fillets, are the undesirable parts of the fish like the meat (and fat) around the belly. I accidentally bought them meaning to get fillets.

Anyway I fixed the dog a pot of stew:

1 lb cut up catfish chunks
3 small apples chopped (likes apples but won't eat canned food)
1 can of non sugared fruit cocktail (likes fruit)
2 cans of Alpo Beef Chunks in gravy chopped (snuck in on her)
1 can of chicken broth
1 dozen small carrots chopped (likes carrots)
1 tablespoon of Worchestershire Sauce (likes human seasoning)
1 teaspoon of Lawry's Seasoned Salt (ditto as no salt in D food)

Simmered for about an hour and she was at my side the whole time. Served her up a bowl of it and she couldn't wait for it to cool.

Whoofed it down.

[size=18:dde93f1f82][color=red:dde93f1f82]Finally I won one!
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Mark

Yeah, you go right ahead believing that. I guarantee that dog has gone from believing you are god to believing he is god.

wisbaker · Oct 20, 2013

Our Lady Bassett will eat about anything but Citrus. We had her pretty well broken from begging at the table but do to our move she spent most of the summer with my mom in Michigan. Looks like we'll have to start all over on training the dog. Mom's happy she finally got to spoil one of her grand kids

Fergienewbee · Oct 20, 2013

Molly, our black Lab, was our best so far. You could leave a sandwich on the coffee-table and go away. It would still be there when we got back. When she laid down, the kids rested against her chest in the curl. She was a landing zone when they were learning to walk and there was never any doubt she would given her life protecting any of us.

Larry

Billy Shafer · Oct 20, 2013

I have been told my dog Bear is just like a man. Gets up in the morning scratches,goes to the bathroom has breakfast and then sleeps on the couch all day
. Took him out to the field one day. Thought he would enjoy doing some hunting. Nope he found a spot in the hay barn and took a nap

Texasmark1 · Oct 20, 2013

So, as the saying goes: Man's, woman's, children's best friend. I'm nursing 3 pretty bad cuts on my hands from playing with her awhile ago. She likes to play rough and if I get my fingers in the way of her toys, she doesn't know the difference. Latest toys I bought her are small and hard to keep the fingers out of the way.

Mark

cannonball · Oct 21, 2013

did fruit cocktail have grapes???....

Texasmark1 · Oct 21, 2013

No! I removed and ate them. No chocolate nor onions either.

Mark

W_B · Oct 21, 2013

We have our Boston terrier on a diet, vet suggested, of equal parts ground up yams, yellow squash and zuccinni at 1/2 cup per feeding mixed with 1/3 cup of dry dog food and a couple of tablespoons of wet dog food, twice a day. He likes it but craps orange! He's lost three lbs. so far, down to 25 lbs. He's on the large size for a Boston.

Texasmark1 · Oct 21, 2013

This one is large too. We weighed her at at 27 the other day.
Looking for a B cup bra for her. Ha.

Don't know if she'd go for that diet or not. Today she wouldn't eat
my concoction so I tried a can of chicken noodle soup which she
refused till I spoon fed her and I had to modify supper to get her to
eat. Feel like letting her starve but I have too much invested in this
pooch to do that.

Mark

Bret4207 · Oct 22, 2013

(quoted from post at 07:19:07 10/20/13) Thought about you this week when My cousin admitted that because of the allergies thier dog has they bought dog food that cost $92 for a 25lb. bag.
Ron

Unless that dog was spitting out puppies enough to cover 10x the cost, he'd starve to death before I did that crap! I like dogs just fine, I've loved a few with all my heart. But some of the things people do for their dogs just mystifies me.

Texasmark1 · Oct 22, 2013

Update on reply.

This morning for breakfast she had half a cup of yams and 1/2 a
weiner. Woofed it down. Great. At lunch she finished off my
chicken noodle soup, not much and ate half a dozen slices of fried
yellow squash. Thanks for the info.

Mark

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