On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:15:27 -0400, "cshenk" wrote:

"Amanda George" wrote
"cshenk" wrote

What pills is she taking?

An anti-flea and an anti-inflamatry - half of each pill twice a day

Probably Garlic for the fleas I bet.

Not sure... one is pink and the other is white and neither of them smell
of garlic - should I go and see to make sure?

No need. It's just a common one to see. It won't smell of garlic but it
makes the dog smell 'funny' to fleas.

Which may not, of course, actually discourage said leas from attaching
to said dog.

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:31:45 -0400, sighthounds & siberians
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:15:27 -0400, "cshenk" wrote:

"Amanda George" wrote
"cshenk" wrote

What pills is she taking?

An anti-flea and an anti-inflamatry - half of each pill twice a day

Probably Garlic for the fleas I bet.

Not sure... one is pink and the other is white and neither of them smell
of garlic - should I go and see to make sure?

No need. It's just a common one to see. It won't smell of garlic but it
makes the dog smell 'funny' to fleas.

Which may not, of course, actually discourage said leas from attaching
to said dog.

Fleas. Discourage said fleas from attaching to said dog.

"cshenk" wrote in message
...
"Amanda George" wrote
"cshenk" wrote

What pills is she taking?

An anti-flea and an anti-inflamatry - half of each pill twice a day

Probably Garlic for the fleas I bet.

Not sure... one is pink and the other is white and neither of them smell
of garlic - should I go and see to make sure?

No need. It's just a common one to see. It won't smell of garlic but it
makes the dog smell 'funny' to fleas.


Ah right! Thank you!

BTW, you are crossposting to several groups but most of us don't so you
may be suprised to know that the rpd.behavior group has several messages
for you that were trimmed of the excess groups. I'm repliying from
there and find that most folks seem to be here and 'may' be in the other
groups.

I'm in all the groups I'm cross-posting to... hold on while I sync the
groups again :-) There are up to 15 messages in the other groups and
I'll go and have a look in them when I've finished posting to this
thread! :-)

Ah ok. Didn't realize.


They were mostly replies in this thread! Oops!

Since your thread is mostly behavior related, seems to fit here well.
After this message, I'll be trimming the groups to just rpd.behavior.

I've just done it for this message... I only sent the message to the
other groups because I thought it should go there too :-)

It's ok. There's more than one thought on how to do it. Many of the
messages spanned to the health group as well for topic.


My ISP would only let me send to a few groups so that I wasn't seen as a
spammer, so I just posted to what seemed to be the most appropriate ones
:-)

"Amanda George" said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

My ISP would only let me send to a few groups so that I
wasn't seen as a spammer, so I just posted to what seemed
to be the most appropriate ones

A good idea, though I dislike that ISPs have to take an active
role in this. Many newsgroup users use their newsreaders to
killfile posts going to more than 2 groups.

And thank you for posting to only the appropriate groups!

--
--Matt.

"Matt" wrote in message
...
"Amanda George" said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

My ISP would only let me send to a few groups so that I
wasn't seen as a spammer, so I just posted to what seemed
to be the most appropriate ones

A good idea, though I dislike that ISPs have to take an active
role in this. Many newsgroup users use their newsreaders to
killfile posts going to more than 2 groups.


I don't like it either but it's not my choice of ISP (it's my husband's
choice because he pays the ISP fees). I don't usually cross-post but there
are times, like with the original message that I do :-)

And thank you for posting to only the appropriate groups!


No problem :-)

--
--Matt.

On 8/14/2010 1:36 PM, Amanda George wrote:
"sonofdog" wrote in message
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On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:54:29 +0100, Amanda George wrote:


I didn't ask for advice about food, I asked for advice about training
our little girl!


Our little girl is happy with the dried food so we won't be changing
:-)

Amanda, it seems that you are missing Char's point re food, it is not
weather food is dried or not but what it is containing, ingredients of it
do count.

We're using the same food she was eating before we re-homed her... same
amount, same brand, same everything :-)

Well that one went right over your head. ROFLOL!

And actually, that the food is dried does make a difference. A dog's
digestive tract wasn't designed for food that dry. It really screws them
up and drinking more water helps but isn't the answer.

Rabbits are the same way. Pet rabbits that eat dry pellets drink a lot
of water while those allowed to graze outside like they were meant to
may not even drink at all.

On 8/13/2010 6:25 PM, cshenk wrote:
"Amanda George" wrote
"Dogman" wrote

do it in conjunction with your VETERINARIAN.

She's doing a lot better than we were expecting and the vet is happy
with her so we'll keep on with the dry food unless the vet says
otherwise :-)

Works. Raw feeding costs more although it may not be too much more if
you have access to a good supply of cheap meats (bone in and organs and
variety). It gained ground in the USA due to the huge melamine issue
from China sourced foods.

It really makes no sense to fix what ain't broke.

Agreed. Unlike with cats, dry kibble just isn't the same issue with dogs.

It's not? Dried out food is not natural for dogs either.