sardines

Do you give your dogs sardines ?
we do i find it helps there coats
my partner cant stand the smell though so muggins allways has to feed them :(

I used to give Jadey sardines but she went off them - I know what he means about the smell though!! I had the lovely job of dishing it up as well!!! :D

I have only just recently found out from Deb (Engladian) that the oil in fish isn't particularly good for dogs and you should give them flaxseed oil.xx

I do give Roxy sardines occasionally, i hate the smell to but she does love them. I have just started with the flaxseed oil. Great fun trying to get her to eat the capsule (she ain't silly!!)

Cut a tiny hole in the end of the capsule and squeeze it over the food, she won't know its there. I give them whole to Kane in his food but then he would swallow a golf ball whole if I hid it in food. oink oink

I think I will try that instead Deb, the snidey cowbag keeps hiding the capsules under her tongue and then spitting them out!

I just went thru that with giving Kane a worm tab. Shoved it near halfway down his throat and he still managed to cough it up. Got my thumb knuckle crunched a bit in the process and after several tries my son said why don't I just stick it in his meal, I did, and as usual it all went down whole...tab and all.

Good old Kane!! Has he always been so good with his food. How many pups were in his litter. Roxy was only one of 3 and one got taken away early (5 weeks - stupid people!) so I wonder if its because she never really had to fight for her food so she just picks at it when she feels like it. Do you free feed?

No I NEVER free feed any of my animals....makes for poor eating habits and as well you can never be sure of exactly how much they have eaten in a given day if asked by the vet under any unforseen circumstances. Yes Kane was from a litter of 9 but 1 didn't make it, but still 8 is a large litter with lots of competition for sure. Also I didn't get him till he was 5 months and there were still 6 there including Kane to shove and push at the dish with, so it very well could have made a difference. I have just never put up with fussiness when it comes to feeding tho. We learned in vet nurse course that a healthy dog will never let itself starve to death, might be stubborn, but will eventually give in and eat. So whatever I put down is what they get...take it or leave it. It's there for a max of 10 mins in the morning then taken away till dinner at 5. If they still don't eat it in the 10 mins at 5 then they wait till morning again. Absolutely nothing in between and I never fall for those big brown eyes either. :D

I used to give Tess sardines but now she just turns her nose up at them but she loves tuna, she only get's that once in a blue moon cause of the mercury in it tho, fussy moo LOL

both mine get tuna too they love it

Roxy loves tuna too!! I think she likes most stinky things!!

I feed mine sardines in sunflower oil / olive oil , sometimes pilchards

They dont seem to like the tomato sauce ones so much :no:

akasha eats the tomato ones also these ones make me boke :pale:

my dogs all love sardines, infact everytime i give the sardines, i say (fishys) so when im in the ring and i want the dogs to use their ears, i whisper ( fishys) :suspect: and hey presto ears go up all exept flare that is, she uses her ears non stop until we go in the ring and not even money will bribe her

Mine love Sardines, they have the ones in tomatoe sauce as then i sort 2 problems out with one solution :D

Tomatoe juice neutrolizes piddle so stopping the brown marks left on the lawn from females piddling every where :)
It dont seem to work on the males as Mayja has killed the bottom half of my fir trees :shock:

denise wrote:Mine love Sardines, they have the ones in tomatoe sauce as then i sort 2 problems out with one solution :D

Tomatoe juice neutrolizes piddle so stopping the brown marks left on the lawn from females piddling every where :)
It dont seem to work on the males as Mayja has killed the bottom half of my fir trees :shock:

ah i did not know that thanks

i give tito sardines once a week,in oil or tom sauce,just as a treat really and the oil is good for his coat and joints and lots of protein too.i mix it all up with his usual biscuits,blink and its gone he loves it!