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05-13-2007, 07:30 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Africa
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| New to Yorkie Love Hi All I am from South Africa and am a new mommy to a 7.5 week old male yorkie. His name is Lee-Roy. He has been with us a family of 4 for three days now. I am so nervous as all the info I ever read is about illness and possible death. I have read a few posts on this site about food and have a question I would love to hear your opinions on and that is Q: Is chicken and rice a no no as that is all I have been feeding him. I boil the chicken and rice and then cut it up into tiny bits i then add a little milko pup and twice a day add to that some glucose, Is what I am doing ok? |
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05-13-2007, 07:35 AM | #2 |
It's a Yorkie Thing Donating Member | First of all WELCOME To Yorkie Talk and Let me be the first say you are now being OWNED by a Yorkie. I only feed bagged pet food I don't do my own cooking so I'll let someone else anwer your question. Welcome again, Dawn
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05-13-2007, 09:42 AM | #3 |
YT Addict Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Miami
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| As far as food. i suggest puppy food but i kno alot of people put some bits of chicken and rice in there. |
05-13-2007, 09:47 AM | #4 |
And Tiger, too! Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Moore, Oklahoma
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| Welcome to YT. I'm afraid we only feed bagged puppy food. We actually do a 50/50 mix of Purina Puppy Chow and Royal Canin for Yorkshire Terriers. Good luck, love to see some pictures of your new puppy!
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05-13-2007, 11:42 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: atlanta, ga
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| Welcome to Yt!!! I too only give my yorkie royal canin yorkie food!! I was always under the impression that human food was not good for their systems!! I am sure if I am incorrect that someone will post info to same from this site!! But welcome and I can't wait to see photos of your little one!!!
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05-13-2007, 01:09 PM | #6 |
YT Addict Join Date: May 2007 Location: Southern California
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| Certain human food is fine - as long as it's not loaded with fat or spices or anything. Things to avoid would be chocolate, raisins/grapes, seeds of fruit (but the fruit itself cut up into small pieces is fine), onions... You can give him rice and chicken but you need to mix that with a nutritional supplement for puppies/dogs otherwise he'll become unhealthy! Congrats on your new little boy. |
05-13-2007, 04:44 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Long Island
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| Welcome to YT...............congrat on your new baby! |
05-13-2007, 04:49 PM | #8 |
Kodi & Pixie 2 Donating Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: NEBRASKA
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| Hi welcome to YT Can't wait to see pictures. |
05-13-2007, 05:04 PM | #9 |
Loved by Layla Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada
Posts: 11,257
| homecooking is great but you just have to make sure he is getting a variety of veggies, meat and a grain... also make sure he is getting a suppliment like Missing Link. Cant' wait to see pictures!! |
05-13-2007, 06:22 PM | #10 |
My hairy-legged girls Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: lompoc, ca.
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| Hi and welcome to YT. Cooking for your baby is the most natural and safe thing you can do. Dog food is the most un-natural food you can feed and can only cause your baby some major health problems. I don't mean to scare you, but this is true. |
05-14-2007, 04:40 PM | #11 |
Yorkie Yakker | food Hi and welcome. Keep reading on here as I am also a fairly new Yorkie owner and I have learned so many things. As far as the food--- I tried several things when I first got Topaz and he got sick or have the scoots. My vet told me to keep trying until I found something that settled him. I finally tried puppy pedagree and it worked great. If I try to give him too many other things he throws it back up. Their little tummys are not strong enough for a lot of things and in the bagged food they get a lot of vitamins that they need. |
05-15-2007, 11:46 AM | #12 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: alabama
Posts: 65
| Hello. I feed Shooter and Emma chicken and rice of course they also get their dry food too. It hasn't seemed to affect them but I don't give them alot of it either.
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