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Originally Posted by Ginny Merry  My Dixie is a week shy of 4 months old and she weights 6 lbs. Now how much more will she grow. I was told she will be around 9 lbs. Around what age will she stop growing. I think she is the big Yorkie. She is the size I would like to be now.
She scratches herself like she has fleas and I know she don't. I find pieces of her fur around the kitchen, I know she scratches herself more than she should.
She has been on Benadryl for a few weeks and is not any better. Does anybody have any idea what it could be. I take her back to the vet in 3 weeks.
I gave her a small raw baby carrot today and she loves it, is it O.K. to continue giving her 1 a day? Or is it better to cook it. Outside of that she only gets puppy chow and very little treats. http://www.dogster.com/dogs/453768  |
I would definately get her off the Puppy Chow! That is probably why she is itching.
Here is Puppy Chow's Ingredients: Ingredients:
Whole grain corn,
chicken by-product meal,
corn gluten meal, brewers rice,
soybean meal, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), pearled barley, calcium phosphate, fish oil, calcium carbonate,
animal digest, salt, potassium chloride, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, choline chloride, zinc sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, DL-Methionine, zinc proteinate, ferrous sulfate, brewers dried yeast, manganese sulfate, manganese proteinate, added color (Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 2), niacin, Vitamin A supplement, copper sulfate, calcium pantothenate, copper proteinate, garlic oil, pyridoxine hydrochloride, Vitamin B-12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate, Vitamin D-3 supplement, riboflavin supplement, calcium iodate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), folic acid, biotin, sodium selenite.
I pick foods with NO by-products, definately no animal digest and no corn, wheat or soy. Raw carrots are good as long as she does not choke. You can grate them if she ever has any difficulty with them.
I doubt she is done growing at 4 months so she will probably be a big Yorkie. But if you just want her for a pet, nothing wrong with that. Their Yorkie personalities seem to shine through no matter what size.