Thursday, June 16, 2011

Fooood!

Not so tiny anymore

There is definitely nothing wrong with the appetite in this puppy! She eats three times per day, and every meal is a bit different, but based on the puppy kibble. For breakfast I mix in a non-salted fresh cheese (normally used to fill burekas), and for lunch I let the kibble soak for a while in some of the liver bullion I got left over when I pre-boiled the liver to make oven-dried liver treats. In the evening she gets raw meat with the kibble, this week it has been from chicken, including meat, fat, skin, cartilage and some pieces of bone, to slowly get her used to eating whole animals. She is doing perfectly on it and has no problem whatsoever to digest it into normal poo. She also sleeps good throughout the night, except for that we take her out once or twice to relieve herself.

Then every afternoon she eats a good handful of the dried liver, during our training sessions, and then of course she chews on the bones that are laying around everywhere, both the marrowbones, but also different raw-hide bones. During the last few days she has gained 100 g per day, which is quite impressive, and we have a fun time weighing her. It is a game for her now, and we don't need to fight to make her sit still on the scale, or weigh her together with us. She just steps up and sits quietly until I allow her to step off again. She will hit the 5 kg mark before the weekend. On Monday she is three months old!

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