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04-26-2009, 09:39 AM | #16 |
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| It is ok for a cat to eat a little dog food but it is not ok for a dog to eat cat food. Many years ago when I was stupid, I had a very picky Spitz. I fed him cat food because he would eat it. When I told my vet he really came down on me. He said it is just too rich for a dog. My dog was much healthier when I forced him to switch to dog food. My last dog before Sadie was a Shih Tzu. She would occasionally "sneak" the cat's food. I caught her every time because she would throw it all up. I don't give the cat too much greif if she sneaks some of the dog food, but I keep the cat food at a level that Sadie can't reach. For me it's up there with onions and other things that a dog just can't have. |
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04-26-2009, 09:49 AM | #17 |
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| Oh my!!!!! Thank God your MIL adopted him and got him away from an abusive situation.
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04-26-2009, 10:21 AM | #19 |
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| We have a healthy 7lb male, and a healthy skinny 3lb female. She is TINY. You can feel all of her bones and I guess to others she may look sick. She is healthy though, and she eats a TON. She just has really high metabolism. So the size of the dog wouldn't really be much of a concern in itself. But she feeds cat food? That's strange, and I can't imagine it having the nutrion that a dog needs.
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04-28-2009, 04:09 AM | #20 | |
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And as far as the weight: no this dog was emaciated. I have held many kinds of animals and so am using my whole life experience, not just comparing him to my bigger Yorkie. For what it is worth you can feel my dogs ribs easily as well but her body is muscular and the ribs are not pronounced. This dog was a skeleton with skin.
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04-28-2009, 05:41 AM | #21 |
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| I free feed my boys, and my Fletcher is soooo skinny! He eats though, he always has food down for him, he eats Taste of the Wild. So good food, always available yet, he is all skin and bones! I did talk to the vet and he is healthy, he is just soooo skinny, you can feel his spine! I hate it! I would hope that noone would assume that I neglect/abuse or mistreat him in anyway. It would break my heart!
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04-28-2009, 05:48 AM | #22 |
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| I've always heard that dogs eating cat food is a big no-no also. We feed our outside cats after the dogs are put in for the night just so that they don't eat the cat's food. I wonder if her vet knows she's doing that.
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04-28-2009, 05:53 AM | #23 |
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| Cat food is okay for some dogs in some circumstances. It is higher in protein (which may not be a problem) and fat (which could be a problem but not necessarily). It can be done but I would do it under veterinary supervision only. A very popular animal nutritionist sometimes recomends feeding canned cat food to dogs to help them gain weight. If the Yorkie isn't being underfed, I'd wonder about EPI.
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04-29-2009, 06:59 AM | #24 | |
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04-29-2009, 07:05 AM | #25 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | I wonder if the vet knows she feeds the dog cat food? Different animals have different needs.
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04-29-2009, 07:39 AM | #26 |
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| Wel having a 3 lb yorkie and a few in the 6-7 lb range ,I can honestly say my 3lber eats a lot of high quality food and he never gets over 3.5.He feels like a bag of bones but I promise he does eat ,alot of it is genetics he is a well built small dog. However feeding cat food is a no-no.
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04-29-2009, 07:47 AM | #27 | |
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I about this, when I got Laci she was just 12 weeks old and the breeder has a little bit of origen cat food mixed in with her puppy formula, I always wondered why ??? | |
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