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#2 ·
I'd consider changing the food to a different protein source and see if she's having a problem digesting or metabolizing the main protein in whatever you're feeding now.
What are you feeding, and how much?
 
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Some dogs just won't put on weight until they're older. How old is your dog?
 
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Lot of questions here...what brand and type are you feeding, how much per day, what is her exercise program. Does she have gooby ears, how are her stools ......
 
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ShotGunWillie said:
I am currently feeding 28/18 feed, can't seem to put any weight on my bitch. Increased the feeding and still seems like she isn't gaining. Are my percentages too far off, should I decrease protein and increase the fat percentages?

I know this sounds elementary, but crap man....
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I'd go to a quality 30/20 feed to start (assuming you are training/working daily), quite a few to choose from. But feed volume is only part of the equation & most dogs can only take so much before they develop lose stools. I feed once a day, in the evening. If I need to put some weight on one of my dogs, I add a small additional meal in the early AM, then train that dog last as one way to effectively increase volume without developing lose stools. Beyond that I add a scoop of K-9 Super Fuel (http://www.dogsafield.com/prodinfo.asp?number=R261-003), a 30/28 supplement which aides in recovery but also provides a low volume healthy increase in calories loaded with what working dogs need and can assimilate.
 
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Try the plain Yogurt, put a good dab on at every meal. Make sure it is NOT fat free. This worked well for me, and is a fairly cheap solution.:)
 
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When's the last time she was dewormed?
 
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Ken Bora said:
friend of mine gave his one slice of wedding cake.......
You should see her now:rolleyes:




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HahahaahhHAHAhahahahHAHAhAHahahahahHAHahahahahaa


I am Sooooooooo glad that I didn't say that.

You are going to get toasted for that one regards

Bubba
 
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Split your feedings up and crate your dog at night
 
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Ken Bora said:
friend of mine gave his one slice of wedding cake.......
You should see her now:rolleyes:
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Brian Cockfield said:
Dude, you ain't right!
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mjh345 said:
THAT is funny, I don't care who you are
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Bubba said:
HahahaahhHAHAhahahahHAHAhAHahahahahHAHahahahahaa
I am Sooooooooo glad that I didn't say that.
You are going to get toasted for that one regards
Bubba
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Mike Tome said:
Now that there is funny.... needed that today!!
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Coveyrise64 said:
That is funny, best one I've heard lately........:mrgreen:
Coveyrise64
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O.K. Guys,
Let me tell you a story.
The guy is named Jay and we have known each other since we were like eight years old. He is a great guy and is the one who works on my computer when it fills full of dog hair and crashes. In turn he calls me to borrow power tools and assist in home improvement projects. One Sunday morning he calls me and says “Can you come over with your plumbing tools and help me I have a situation” so I drive over and as I pull in he comes right out. This is odd as I usually park and just walk in the kitchen door and poor myself a cup of coffee. He walks up to the truck and says “LISTEN, I don’t want you to say anything!!!! Not one smile, smirk, funny story about a family member or parable….. Not one word!” Can you tell Jay has known me forever? So I ask, “what happened? He says “Lorie (that is the wife), Lorie slipped and fell in the bath tub” “Is she alright?” I ask. Now all this time we were walking together into the house and up the stairs to the master bathroom. “She is fine” he responds in a dead flat monotone voice dripping with issues I don’t even want to go near and we walk into the bathroom and I see the problem. She broke the bath tub!!! I never even knew bath tubs could break. He turns to me and hisses in a whisper like you use in the duck blind to a loud companion when the birds are coming in “NOT ONE WORD!” So I am biting my lower lip and breaking out tools and not saying anything. We remove the broken tub and take measurements and drive over to Home Cheapo and he buys a HUGE bath tub. I don’t say a word, just the guy with the truck and tools, they shop and they buy. We get back and are lugging this beast into the house, through the living room and up the stairs while Lorie goes into the kitchen to check on some crock pot meal she was preparing for us with cheesy bread I distinctly remember the cheesy bread. So we are lugging this monster up the stairs, and they are those L shaped stairs out of a living room and up. Once we turned the corner, Jay was going backwards up as he is the little feller and I was lifting from the bottom. So, once we turned the corner and he was on the top of the stairs and out of sight from Lorie in the kitchen I whisper like he had been doing “Jay”, “Jay”. “What?” “What is the difference between this tub and your wife?” “What?” “ It only takes two of us to carry this tub up these stairs!”. Well, that was what he needed. We had to set the tub down. He started laughing so hard he started to cry. From the cheesy bread he hears Loire screech “What is wrong are you hurt? Can you get it up those stairs?” “Nothing is wrong, stay out of the way” Jay responds with that same monotone voice from earlier.
Tub installed and cheesy bread consumed I leave without one remark. But to this day I can say to Jay, “that new tub holding up O.K.?” and no matter what is going on he cracks up. I never knew a bath tub could break. Honest to God this is true as I am not smart enough to make this stuff up.









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Oh Bora, you slay me! I'm freakin cryin here.
 
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