All you good folk who have man`s best friend (Dog`s.)

[DBK]

We feed Daisy our Alaskan Shepherd two meals a day, not big but one in the morning and one when we are having our dinner...
And through the day she has little tit-bit`s OR a few treats not many and a Dentu Stick last thing at night to clean her teeth.... she seems to thrive on what she get`s considering she only has one hour to two hour walk a day... Monday to Friday...
Although the vet said she is a little overweight, but very healthy we put it down to lack of exercise...

What do you give your little darlings, considering size and make of dog..???

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Check the calories in the Dentu-stik. Some of these chews are very high in calories. You can get low calorie ones though.

 

[InvictaMoto]

Our 17kg Patterdale/Lab X has two meals a day. He's been on raw food for around 9 years as he had terrible diarrhoea on much of the canned food we tried him on. He currently has two meals of 160g a day.

It's a PITA when we go to France and Spain but we have found some good stockists. He won't eat fish based food!

He's 14yo now and makes do with a single afternoon walk of about 30 to 45 minutes, any longer and he turns back for home.... We used to do two half hour walks in the morning and evening.

 

[Theonlysue]

Mia has 2 meals. One about 12 the other about 4pm. In summer, she's eats mainly eats in the evening. Give her dry dog food with a small amount of real meat on top. Her favourite is steak lol
I give her small treats, natures menu. They are small and soft. She's has lost a few teeth now. She's very fussy on treats and doesn't seem to eat anything else.

 

[Langtoftlad]

Why are you asking old-mo ?
Is Daisy seriously overweight ?

As they get older, they need less but don't understand, hence the "senior" formulations
It's easy to underestimate the number of treats/nibbles/snacks and their calories.

Luckily I have hyperactive greyhound:

...so don't have to worry so much.

 

[Hezbez]

For raw fed dogs the rule of thumb is to feed 2% to 3% of bodyweight per day.

If looking to lose weight edge down towards to 2%.

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[lindyloot]

"20 years ago after Richards German Shepherd died of Torsion, on the advice of the vet we stopped giving one meal a day . Our dogs since then had had their daily amount divided into two meals breakfast and dinner He has a dental treat and a boneo or gravy Bones for Lunch plus treats when training

 

[old-mo]

Why are you asking @old-mo ?
Is Daisy seriously overweight ?

Not really that much overweight, the vet said she should be around the 30 - 32 klw..

And she is 35 klw........ We know it`s because we cannot take her for her three good walks a day, and are having to pay some one dearly to take her out for and hour or so..

But at £80-00 for five walks Mon - Fri it hurts us OAP`s..

 

[Zoobec]

Not really that much overweight, the vet said she should be around the 30 - 32 klw..

And she is 35 klw........ We know it`s because we cannot take her for her three good walks a day, and are having to pay some one dearly to take her out for and hour or so..

But at £80-00 for five walks Mon - Fri it hurts us OAP`s..

Have you heard of borrow my doggy? https://www.borrowmydoggy.com/ I don’t have personal experience of it myself but I’m sure there will be people local to you who would love to walk Daisy, who maybe can’t have a dog full time.

 

[Langtoftlad]

Have you heard of borrow my doggy? https://www.borrowmydoggy.com/ I don’t have personal experience of it myself but I’m sure there will be people local to you who would love to walk Daisy, who maybe can’t have a dog full time.

There's also the Cinnamon Trust
https://cinnamon.org.uk/support-for-you-and-your-pet/day-to-day-pet-care/

A few years ago I tried to become a volunteer walker for them but they set too many hurdles - so I suspect the volunteers that do make the grade will be excellent & trustworthy.