Pug dog questions ;)Now a coupla pics :)

[miss_thenorth]

Hi, no one has claimed the pug so far, so I am just contemplating her food situation. given her health conditions, pannus, shes not to have any inflammatory foods. I already make my own dog food, which is --this week, rabbit,mixed veggies, and a bit of rice cooked in bone broth. fat is added also to the rice. I add brewers yeast and they get yogurt and kefir also, and sometimes just the whey.

so, can the pug eat this or should I leave out the rice. (although the rice has some goodies in it which is why I feed it)and also how much does a pug eat? She's 18 lbs. I also give my big dogs a bit of kibble on top of their home made.

 

[Wifezilla]

Hmmm...

First of all your recipe sounds pretty darn good...especially with the bone broth. I don't feed ANY grains to my cats, but I know dogs are a little more tolerant of those things. I would try without first. See how she reacts.

 

[Dace]

I have no idea on the rice, personally I would skip it.

Kudos to your for taking care of that poor little thing. Any improvement in her eyes at all?

 

[miss_thenorth]

No, no improvement with the eyes. She is proving to be a great dog though. I am putting the ointment the doc gave me in three times a day, and wiping her eyes with a damp, lint free cloth several times a day. I want tolook at some type of moisturizing drops to moisten her eyes in between ointment. Would a dogs ph be the same as humans? as in, can i use typical saline sol'n as drops in her eyes, just to moisten them?

Dinner for her tonight was ground lamb (leftover from our dinner, mixed veggies and a bit of kibble stirred in. I nixed the rice for tonight. Even when i give it to my big dogs, it si just a bit to get the fat and bone broth into them. I think I might give her some next time, as rice is tolerated fairly well, and not inflammatory.

She has learned 'sit' today. We are working on 'come'. And she went pee outside on cue 4 times today. # 2, we are stillworking on. ( twice today in the house. ) baby steps.
Hubby is stil not in love with her. In his defense, he has been working 12 hour shifts for 10 straight days ovetime and still has to work the weekend, then go back to his regular shift. Plus drive an hour each way. He's tired and miserable. But I'm sure he will come around.

 

[tortoise]

RE: how much to feed. Is she spayed? How active is she?

 

[i_am2bz]

My pug was an extremely messy eater; I think things get caught in those jowls. When I had to give him rice, it ended up everywhere. It always helped giving him big chunks of whatever he ate. 'Course, he had no teeth either, so that probably didn't help.

BTW, the drops I gave my pug were called Tear Stimulator II, it's for low tear production.

 

[dipence71]

Pugs are highly allergic to corn & wheat, chicken & beef are not too well tolerated (or at least mine were)
I had to feed mine a lamb and rice mix only, until they cleared up and then after a year I slowly reintroduced chicken & beef in small amounts and they tolerated them pretty well when only given a small amount. But mostly a lamb and rice diet with fresh raw and scrambled eggs.

 

[miss_thenorth]

RE: how much to feed. Is she spayed? How active is she?

I am assuming she is not spayed. I tend to think she just had a litter of pups. Her teats are hanging low, but no milk. Activity level is , for now, not active. But that might change as she starts to feel more comfortable here. right now she is 18 lbs, did I say that already?

 

[Henrietta23]

Don't think so. The "specs" (sorry, long day and guests for dinner so I'm not thinking of the word I want) say a pug should be between 14-18 lbs I think. So that's a little heavy for a girl pug. My male is just 18 too and it's heavy for him.

 

[tortoise]

Pugs are highly allergic to corn & wheat, chicken & beef are not too well tolerated (or at least mine were)
I had to feed mine a lamb and rice mix only, until they cleared up and then after a year I slowly reintroduced chicken & beef in small amounts and they tolerated them pretty well when only given a small amount. But mostly a lamb and rice diet with fresh raw and scrambled eggs.

"Blanket" statements cannot be made about any breed, especially about diet. Some dogs do beautifully on crappy food. Some dogs do poorly on raw. I "have" littermates (I owned one and gave him away, I have the other) - 4 yr old purebred labs. 1 has to be on super calorie dense, high fat kibble. The other does well on regular stuff. Neither can be fed raw - they are Service Dog and it's a public health risk for them to be on raw.