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robin4908 · 03-12-2009, 03:56 PM

thanks. i am a newby with an 8 yr. old felmale yorkie sweetheart. i love her to death but she has developed a few problems hopefully someone out there can help me with. first, she has a collapsing trachea which would require surgery to fix, not an option at this time. second she weigh 7 #'s and should wei 5-6#'s. she started have this huge budah belly and its always there.shes not gassy. i've researched food and put her on every diet or senior food out there, blue buffaloe being the last one, with no weight loss at all and a huge belly. so i started making my own homemade dog food recipe, which i found on line. she absoutely loves it, belly is a little smaller but not much wight loss. she can't excercise much because of her trachea. we go for slow walks and sometimes i put her on the treadmill for 10 minutes. she has been vet checked for everything. i took her in to have her teeth cleaned and they wouldn't do the surgery because of her trachea! so i'm trying to get weight off of her . she gets 200 calories per day. its a mix of elk burger,heart, brown rice, sweet potatoes, and veggies split up 3 X's a day. i also ad missing link (vitamin) anybody out there got any ideas for my sunni?

03-12-2009, 03:56 PM	#234
robin4908 Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: gaines, mi. usa Posts: 10	my sunni thanks. i am a newby with an 8 yr. old felmale yorkie sweetheart. i love her to death but she has developed a few problems hopefully someone out there can help me with. first, she has a collapsing trachea which would require surgery to fix, not an option at this time. second she weigh 7 #'s and should wei 5-6#'s. she started have this huge budah belly and its always there.shes not gassy. i've researched food and put her on every diet or senior food out there, blue buffaloe being the last one, with no weight loss at all and a huge belly. so i started making my own homemade dog food recipe, which i found on line. she absoutely loves it, belly is a little smaller but not much wight loss. she can't excercise much because of her trachea. we go for slow walks and sometimes i put her on the treadmill for 10 minutes. she has been vet checked for everything. i took her in to have her teeth cleaned and they wouldn't do the surgery because of her trachea! so i'm trying to get weight off of her . she gets 200 calories per day. its a mix of elk burger,heart, brown rice, sweet potatoes, and veggies split up 3 X's a day. i also ad missing link (vitamin) anybody out there got any ideas for my sunni?