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06-01-2006, 06:17 PM | #1 |
I heart Hootie & Hobbs Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: USA
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| 23 year old yorkie! Ok, so my husband and I ate dinner with one of his professors on Saturday evening who is from Taiwan and barely speaks English. We were telling him about Hobbs, like we do to everyone we meet, and he proceeded to tell us that he used to have a yorkie and a pomeranian that both lived to be 23 years old!!!!!!! We asked him how in the world he possibly managed to get his little doggies to live that long, and he said that he never fed his dogs dog food a day in their lives. He said that he and his wife (who is also Thai) fed their dogs whatever they ate, usually Thai food. It was quite apparant from our meal with them and our discussion of nutrition during dinner (he is a doctor) that they ate extremely healthily. We tried to get him to give us some sort of menu of things he fed his dogs, but we could barely understand him since he spoke little English. We did understand him say that he fed his doggies mostly chicken. I asked if it was boiled chicken, and he said that he fed them boiled chicken, baked chicken, grilled chicken, etc. Really it was just anything and everything they ate. I just thought this was SO interesting and wanted to share it. I am not about to take Hobbs off dog food, considering I don't know squat about nutrition for dogs, but is there anyone on YT that does not feed their yorkie dog food?! Just curious. |
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06-01-2006, 06:20 PM | #2 |
And Tila, too! Donating Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Cali
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| I fed Tila some chicken once, just the inside no skin at all and all cooked well and healthy and her body did NOT respond well. I don't want to get graphic so I'll just say that I had quite a bit of cleaning up to do in her crate, and on her. |
06-01-2006, 06:24 PM | #3 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: USA
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| I feed mine boiled chicken, green beans, cottage cheese, boiled egg, raw hamburger, peas, carrots, cheese, yogurt, raw spinach, apples and ice cream. They get a little dry kibble in their bowl with something fresh every day. Course mine aren't 23 yet! |
06-01-2006, 09:14 PM | #4 |
YT Addict Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hong Kong
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| I feed Brownie chicken and hamburger meat sometimes, along with carrots, watermelon, apples, bread and she still gets dry kibble in her bowl and will eat it when she's finished her human food. She also gets a lot of teeth cleaning chews because it's important to get them chewing something hard to get rid of all the plaque (sp?) and tartar. I don't really want her going for a teeth cleaning so soon.
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06-01-2006, 09:35 PM | #5 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Texas
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| wow that's really interesting. my mom once had a mixed retriever that lived for about 19 years eating rice and chicken everyday. However, I do not feed Buttercup any human food. He is strictly on dogs' food and dogs food only. Does that mean he'll have a short life? Who knows?!? We'll have to see about that... |
06-01-2006, 09:37 PM | #6 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | Cali eats only baked chicken and hamburger with the grease blotted off. I also give her Missing Link Supplement 2 x a day. I had one Yorkie, Zorro wh would only eat chicken and he lived until almost 13. I am going to try and get her on a dog fod diet soon. My Pom gets sick from chicken. I worked with a girl who had a pom that lived until it was 20.
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06-01-2006, 09:37 PM | #7 |
Banning Thread Dictator Donating Member | Screw the Yorkies! 23 years X 7 = 161! I'm changing my diet to Thai food!
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06-01-2006, 10:12 PM | #8 |
YT 6000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Seattle, WA
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| Wow, 23 is amazing! We feed Yoda lots of boiled chicken, but we avoid the salty foods that we typically eat, though he has been known to get some goodies snuck to him. Winky's too young right now to get anything else. |
06-01-2006, 10:24 PM | #9 |
Loved by Maddie & Libby Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: North Dakota
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| Wow...that's unbelievable! I wish we could all have our little yorkies with us for that long!
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06-01-2006, 11:47 PM | #10 |
My2Pearls Chelsey & Chanel YT Donator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: N
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| A lot of people feed their dog table scraps, specially before all these new and different brands of dog food came on the market, my aunt had a chi that was fed what they ate and she was 21. I really don't know what's the best, mine are on dry kibble because i know it's best for the teeth, they get cottage cheese, carrots, boiled chicken, apple, peer, banana, yogurt.
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06-02-2006, 12:56 AM | #11 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London
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| My mother has a little maltese who is 18 this year and still in very good health. She never liked dog food so only ever ate what we had!
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06-02-2006, 04:35 AM | #12 | |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Chesapeake, VA
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06-02-2006, 04:36 AM | #13 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: NY
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| mine eat homemade Mine get mostly homemade food and supplements. I got a recipe off the Animal Advocates website specifically for Yorkies and I alter it with different veggies. I bought the book and don't believe everything he says but I got by his recipe guidelines and what my breeder does too. His current meal is lamb, barley, Swiss Chard, Dandelion, and beets but that sometimes changes to hamburg (or another meat), broccoli, squash, green beans, carrots, etc. It depends on the week. He also gets a natural heartworm protocol, daily multi, and I will alternate and throw into his food EPA oil, Flavomax (from Shaklee for protection), acidopholis, and as treats give him Dr. Bob's Healthy nuggets for the herbs and oils. It sounds like a lot...but it really isn't. You just throw a pinch of this or that in the food you prepared ahead of time. suz |
06-02-2006, 04:37 AM | #14 |
YT Addict Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Halifax, NS
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| Wow 23 years We are only feeding Punkin People Food - fruit veggies lean meats, whole wheat pasta, brown rice etc. She gets it before we add any seasoning etc to it.
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06-02-2006, 05:14 AM | #15 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: North wilkesboro, NC
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| Wow that's hard to believe that a dog can live that long. Good for them.
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