What I feed my dog

[chuss]

I've seen a stack of rottweilers and I can guarantee you she aint fat. My mother in law has an oversize rotty and when they stand side by side, you'd think one is obese and the other annorexic!

I got the pics, just need to get them on a web page and post them up. I'll have them up next week sometime.

[susanlind]

Finally, supplements -- yes definately. Start with vitamin B complex, C, and Fish Oil. The B & C are both water soluable so give them at both meals because they can't be stored in the dogs system.

I disagree with giving vitamin C supplements. Humans don’t store vitamin C. Dogs however, manufacture their own vitamin C from glucose in their liver. Adding supplements of vitamin C can be harmful as the excess turns into a substance called oxalate, which can form into bladder stones. Excess vitamin D also encourages the formation of these stones and can lead to calcium deposits in soft tissue. I don’t give any supplements that contain Vitamin D. If you’re feeding your dog adequate amounts of organ meat (muscle meat is very low in Vitamins A and D), or if you’re feeding a high quality kibble, supplementation of these vitamins is usually not necessary.

I am careful not to over-supplement as higher levels of some vitamins and nutrients interfere with the absorption of others. I give my dog one brewers yeast tablet a day (recommended dose is 10 x’s that for my dog’s weight), and once a week, 100 mcg of Vitamin E and 10 mcg of zinc.

Carina43: that’s a great link you posted and just what I needed. I work from home, however I accepted a promotion that involves travel 5 to 7 days out of every month for the next 6 months. My dog will be in a kennel when I’m out of town. I feed a raw and cooked diet, but this kennel only allows kibble or canned food. I’m going to reduce the amount of homemade food in my dog’s diet for the next 6 months and gradually get him used to kibble. Any sudden change in diet upsets his digestive system.

I was going to start a thread on kibble recommendations as I’m not familiar with most of the brands. I’ll use the search function here and look for recommendations and comments on the brands that I’m leaning towards: California Nature, Artemis and Innova.

[Rott-Wiley]

susanlind,

You are very wrong in your logic! That is correct that dogs manufacturer vitamin C but the amounts are no where near the amount they require. Vitamin C in the form of Calcium Ascorbate is water soluble and if flushed throught the dogs body in a matter of hours, and cannot be stored. If you think the they are getting the C from prepared commercial foods, that is also wrong because the amounts listed on those foods are before processing.

[pfoley]

I think that the what you are feeding your dog is a little starchy and fattening although done with a lot of love in the preparation. Maybe you could cut down on the pasta and the potato. Rice is known to bind them, so if you see your dog is having a hard time doing her poop, I would cut back on the rice, too. You don't want the dog to be overweight as they tend to get arthritis as they age. I feed my dog twice a day too with dog cookies in between for treats.
I give her three handfuls of Iams or Purina with three tablespoons of canned dog food, Pedegree. If we have chicken or steak for dinner, I save a scrap for her. I am very conscious of her weight, and try not to let her get overweight. I walk her every morning and she plays in the backyard in the afternoon with my husband for a little while. Her coat is good and shiney, and she is beautiful. I see an awful lot of overweight Rottweilers. People are always trying tro make them as big as they can, but that is not good for them.

[chuss]

pfoley - how old is your dog?

I cooked up a bit of food again last night for Kiara. I went out and bought some lamb hearts and beef mince. I steamed and mashed some carrots, broccoli and zucchini. Then added that with the lamb hearts and beef mince to a big pot with a bit of rice. So her meal was 50% meat, with 35% veggies and 15% rice.

This morning before I left for work, I gave her some raw meaty bones. When I get back home i'll give her 3 cups of her stew I made.

I also did the check of her ribs, you can't quite see them, but you can feel them and you know where her rib cage ends.

[pfoley]

If you can feel her ribs, that is good. My vet said you should be able to run your hands over the ribs and be able to feel them but not see them. She said their body should taper in slightly at the waist. My dog is 7 years old. She weights 80 lbs. The vet said she is perfect right at that weight.

[macho rottie]

Pfoley, Iams, purina and pedigree are some of THE worst foods you can feed your dog! :( Anything you buy from a grocery store is garbage. Have you read what they put into that stuff?? :( Look up on the forums here and see what is a good quality dog food. Canidae, innova, california natural and some others. Even Nutro Natural.

What chuss is feeding is 100% better than what you are feeding.

[chuss]

I sent out some links before regarding what they put in dog food.. I nearly had cronic renal failure the first time I read it.

[pfoley]

They might not be the perfect dog foods, but I have had four dogs in my lifetime and I have never had a sick dog. I had a mini poodle, lhasa Apso, Chow Chow and now this Rott. They were all in perfect health their entire lifetimes. I never had to take to them to the vet except for shots and tests. I did subsidize their diets with meat scraps from the dinner table as well as dog cookies. I never fed them junk food. I never had an overweight dog or a sick dog. They all died at very old ages. There has to be something to be said about that.

[chuss]

ok, check her pictures at



That should tell you if she's overweight or not.the pictures are already posted in Chit Chat

[Rott-Wiley]

This is just my opinion but after seeing those pics, that is too much weight to put on a 10 month old puppy.

[PooPooPie]

Shes very beautiful, and HUGE for a 10 month old ... :)

Do you know how much her parents weigh?

[PooPooPie]

pfoley - the tiny extra cost for a premium is so worth it. I may sound like a pompous ass, but please reconsider what you feed your dogs.

Would you eat crushed up and possibly diseased eyeballs, brains, and tumors?

Most importantly, Iams and Eukanuba (Proctor and Gamble) perform extremely cruel experiemnts on animals as seen here:

Iams Atrocites

Oh, sheesh I forgot, they are just "dogs" ...

[chuss]

I have no idea how much they weigh but I can tell you that they were very large dogs. Her father was massive, a really big dog, a tad overweight, but very large boned. Her mother was a beatiful dog, quite large as well. I'd say they were up around the 130 lbs each..

[PooPooPie]

Looks like shes gonna be massive too ... again, very pretty dog ... I can never get enough rottie pics ... :D