No, no puppy here yet, but I'm reading Ian Dunbar's Before and After
Getting Your Puppy. Aside from the doom & gloom doNOTscrewthisup!
undercurrent, it's good stuff. One thing that I question, however, is his
advice to make ALL of the new puppy's feedings by hand, spread throughout
the day, stuffed in kongs, etc. Wouldn't that make housetraining a lot
more challenging?

What do you all think about that bit of advice?

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Lynne

No, no puppy here yet, but I'm reading Ian Dunbar's Before and After
Getting Your Puppy. Aside from the doom & gloom doNOTscrewthisup!
undercurrent, it's good stuff. One thing that I question, however, is his
advice to make ALL of the new puppy's feedings by hand, spread throughout
the day, stuffed in kongs, etc. Wouldn't that make housetraining a lot
more challenging?

What do you all think about that bit of advice?



I am not sure, my only guesses are to help with blood sugar issues that
puppies could have? or maybe to teach the dog to follow you around since
you always have something for them?

on Mon, 28 May 2007 20:21:57 GMT, "MauiJNP" wrote:

I am not sure, my only guesses are to help with blood sugar issues
that puppies could have? or maybe to teach the dog to follow you
around since you always have something for them?

He goes into the why's of doing that in his book, and they make sense.
They have to do with training, not health. The reason I question it,
though, is that it seems to me it would cause the puppy to have very
frequent bowel movements as opposed to 3 or so. He does say to feed that
way only for a month or so, IIRC, so maybe it is worth trying.

--
Lynne

on Mon, 28 May 2007 20:55:11 GMT, montana wildhack
wrote:

We didn't find that to be the case. She had 3-4 bowel movements (she
has 3 per day now) and they were morning, noon, late afternoon and
night. But we were out with her for pee breaks all the time, so it
wasn't inconvenient.

That's good to know. If I am graced with a puppy again in this lifetime, I
am going to implement Dunbar's methods. They are all very positive and
logical. The only one I questioned was the feeding, but since you've done
it this way and pooping wasn't a problem, it sounds good to me!

--
Lynne

Lynne wrote in
. 97.142:

No, no puppy here yet, but I'm reading Ian Dunbar's Before and After
Getting Your Puppy. Aside from the doom & gloom doNOTscrewthisup!
undercurrent, it's good stuff. One thing that I question, however, is
his advice to make ALL of the new puppy's feedings by hand, spread
throughout the day, stuffed in kongs, etc. Wouldn't that make
housetraining a lot more challenging?

What do you all think about that bit of advice?


I think its great. Though I separate some of it out for using as rewards.

Annie has eaten exactly *one* meal out of a bowl. The rest are either for
working, or out of kongs.

Tara