sighthounds & siberians wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:03:08 -0500, chardonnay9
wrote:

sighthounds & siberians wrote:
On 23 Jan 2009 18:08:59 -0500, (Melinda Shore) wrote:

In article ,
Shelly wrote:
I'd not heard that rule of thumb before.
Well, damn. A friend recently published a second edition of
his "Rules of Thumb" book and I should have contributed
that.

But seriously, a common source of diarrhea is TOO MUCH
FOOD. Splitting it up into smaller, more frequent meals is
the ticket.
I've heard a rule of thumb for deep-chested dogs and/or breeds prone
to bloat that says no more than 2 cups per feeding. Since I feed half
the dogs twice a day, it's no biggie to feed them all twice a day,
even the little guys. Dogs look forward to meals; feeding more than
once a day seems somehow kinder.

Kinder? The dog never feels satiated when it's fed more than once a day.
This is what causes a dog to gulp it's food. They naturally gorge on a
kill now and then, they don't snack on it.

Chardonnay, you are seriously so full of **** your eyes must be a
deep, deep shade of brown. Even though my greyhounds look very
similar to the dogs seen on the walls of the pyramids in Egypt, they
actually have evolved quite a bit from 'dogs in the wild'.

I know of one person who feeds her dog once every three days and it
works for them. The dog stopped with the food aggression.

Heh. Well that sure as **** wouldn't work here, but you feel free to
try that with your blind, malnourished dogs.

Dogs need to feel full now and then to be happy.

I'm sure that's true. I'm equally sure that that has nothing to do
with how often they're fed. Dogs don't need to gorge themselves to
feel full, any more than people do.

You're a misguided crackpot and you give advice that is almost always
misguided, sometimes crackpot and often dangerous.



So what are your credentials that you can make such a statement?