Oh my! 77lb Dachshund!
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Yup^^^ most people just want to be right as opposed to giving sound, concerned advice. Carrots is a helluva lot better then other things and there was only one picture of carrots posted.... Raw feeders aren't the only dog owners out there... and it isn't the only efficient way of feeding. I hope that this dog can recover 
This. ^^ The giant donation button thingy at the top of their page made my spidey-senses tingle, and not in a good way. I kind of wondered if they'd only gotten $10 so far and really needed money to help, or if they're secretly rolling in $10,000 in donations. Who knows? They're not sharing. :dunno:
Also, I don't really care how someone wants to moderate their facebook page. It's their page. But I also don't see why we can't discuss stuff like this on Chaz. There's been a ton of helpful information on good alternatives to carrots for helping dogs feel full. People lurk, and if one person come away from this thread with better tools for helping their dogs get to a healthy weight then that's cool.
Also, I don't really care how someone wants to moderate their facebook page. It's their page. But I also don't see why we can't discuss stuff like this on Chaz. There's been a ton of helpful information on good alternatives to carrots for helping dogs feel full. People lurk, and if one person come away from this thread with better tools for helping their dogs get to a healthy weight then that's cool.
I'm not entirely sure that having every random internet person and their brother say how THEY think this dog (who they have never met or examined) should be fed/exercised/etc, IS very constructive. Sometimes people don't want suggestions, they just want support. However, we live in a culture where we tend to believe that since we have a right to an opinion and that everyone NEEDS to hear said opinion, so we tend to get all hot and bothered when someone tells us that (God forbid!) they have no interest in what we have to say.
The dog is under a vet's care, it's losing weight-support her or let her be.
The dog is under a vet's care, it's losing weight-support her or let her be.
^ Yes. And ask for donations!!!!!? That opens you up to critique.
I've heard many words of encouragement from certified nutritionists about keeping my dog full. I have never been told to feed carrots. Green beans, pureed leafy greens, etc but I was told specifically to avoid carrots. It's not that big of a deal... but who cares if people want to speculate on things like that? Should we just stfu if they were feeding him Beneful weight management too? I don't feel it's affecting them for us to discuss the dog's diet on this forum.
I've heard many words of encouragement from certified nutritionists about keeping my dog full. I have never been told to feed carrots. Green beans, pureed leafy greens, etc but I was told specifically to avoid carrots. It's not that big of a deal... but who cares if people want to speculate on things like that? Should we just stfu if they were feeding him Beneful weight management too? I don't feel it's affecting them for us to discuss the dog's diet on this forum.
Maybe the dog won't eat those things? Maybe nutricionsts have different ways of going about feeding a morbidly obese dog? Apparently it IS a big deal judging by all the "ZOMG carrots!" comments--it isn't Beneful, it's carrots. What bothers me is the insinuation that somehow these people are incompitant because they are feeding the dog carrots, when they are under the advice of a vet, nutritionist, and the dog is losing weight-it just seems incredibly negative and nit-picky. I think it's fantastic that these people have taken this in and are helping this dog--this story could have easily ended up with a dead dachshund.
There isn't ONE point of social networking sites. Just like there isn't ONE way to get a morbidly obese dog to lose weight. I have a page for my mushing stuff, just to keep it all in one place and off my personal page. It's not there to harvest unsolicited advice, it's there to share stuff with people who are interested. If random strangers were annoying me and nit-picking me there, I'd probably delete the comments, too. Why would I want to see that stuff in my space?
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and everyone else is entitled to their opinion of that opinion. My opinion of the ZOMG CARROTS in response to a single picture is that it's a silly overreaction. My opinion of the "feed him broccoli instead" comments is that for a dog this obese who is going to be losing weight over a long period of time, feeding high calcium veggies every day over that entire period could potentially cause its own problems and I think it's a better idea to rotate different vegetables. Even if one of them is carrots.