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    Rottie bone cancer

    He runs like the wind on his three good legs, but the spinal disease has entered mine and my wife's conversations several times. I just want to do all I can to make all the time he has left as worthwhile as possible. Last October I got a call telling me that my dad on the other side of the...
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    Rottie bone cancer

    Hi all, it's been quite some time since I've been here, but I have a decision to make and I'm looking for some input. Last fall my Rottie, Thor, was diagnosed with a degenerative nerve disease in the spine, and given 1 to 2 years to live (I don't know the name of the disease, but the vet said...
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    Natures Variety: Instinct

    My dogs love Instinct. I rotate the chicken along with EVO, Innova, and Prarie. I've tried the rabbit, but I've never seen dogs turn their nose up to a food like they did that. One thing I noticed lately is that one of my female min pins tends to be a pound or two overweight, and tends to be...
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    Alternative for the bail out...

    As far as the $425/pc. Can anyone think of anything they'd like to do with $425??? If given a choice, would you give it to a bank that's most likely already charging you that much interest monthly, or even yearly. Or would you like to use it to pay off some of that debt, or even use it to...
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    Alternative for the bail out...

    The really hilarious part of it is that if they give the money to the banks, and it causes my federal tax to go up 1%, it will cost me well over that $425, then, if the people I buy my food from get that same tax increase, it causes that 1% to go up further. IF, the companies that haul my mail...
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    Laptop owners

    This has been common knowledge for a few years now. Laptops aren't very efficient, and if you block any of the fan flow at all, they become a toaster. Best bet is to only use a laptop on a tabletop, and a tabletop without a tablecloth. A few years back, Pentium 90's didn't need airflow to...
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    This isn't dog related...but...

    Latest update, we went out this morning with me riding her, no problems at all. We took it really easy on her, and took her up and down a few hills just to try to give her some excersize. She did great, never balked at anything, and the minute she started to seem tired, we took her back to the...
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    This isn't dog related...but...

    I really second Boston Banker's opinion on this one. Last year, hay in western Montana was $90/ton for straight alfalfa. This year it's anywhere from $225 to $250/ton, but a lot of people are selling it by the bale for $10 to $15, which works out to $300 to $500/ton. I know plenty of people...
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    This isn't dog related...but...

    Well, I guess you'll be happy to know that my wife took her for a ride today, on a dirt road, since she doesn't have that one shoe, I rode another of our horses right next to her, and it was pretty uneventful. At one point, a pheasant jumped up about 3 feet from the edge of the road, and the...
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    This isn't dog related...but...

    Thanks everyone for your well wishes, it's been 3 days now and the change is really beginning to show. She doesn't have any muscle in her hind end yet, of course, but she has a full belly, and whether it's me or my wife that goes out to her, she knickers the whole time. Also, she no longer...
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    This isn't dog related...but...

    I just wanted to show off my new rescue. She's a 10 year old registered AQHA Appendix, her name is Ima Kaycee, and even now she's gorgeous. My wife and I went to the Missoula horse auction yesterday, just to take a day off work and spend some time together around horses. We were walking...
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    One last post, even I'm getting annoyed

    Okay, 4 Min Pins, one Rottie. The two female Min Pins will eat anything you give them, and overeat if given the chance. The Rottie will eat anything, even if it's not food, put wood in his dish and he'll eat it. Until recently, the Rottie and the 2 girls were on Canidae, but with the...
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    Best dog food

    Sorry for the sarcasm, but I felt it was appropriate. I'm glad you're all pleased with it, I try to control myself, but in this case, with the ads on his post, I just couldn't help it :)
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    Best dog food

    Which flavor of Royal Canin, the one with corn as the main ingredient, or the one one corn by products as the main ingredient?
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    Wellness Core vs.TOTW?

    You could try Instinct Rabbit, none of my Min Pins would eat it at all, and to me and my wife, it stunk too bad to feed, but we dumped it in our Rottie's dish and he loved it. Our Min Pins love EVO and every other flavor of Instinct, it was just the rabbit that they hated. Maybe it will...
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    How Did You Decide On the Food to Start Your Puppy On?

    I switched all of my puppies over to good food as soon as I got them. One was on Pedigree, one was on Pro-Plan, one was on Eukanuba, one was on Science diet. I didn't take the time of transitioning them, I wanted them on good food, so I just started giving them Canidae, Solid Gold, and...
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    please help decide on new kibble

    Hi again, I'm glad it all worked out for you so far. I just looked at the two bags I have here, the Chicken is 393 kcal/cup, and the lamb is 373 kcal/cup, so they're close, but the Chicken is higher in calores. Even so, the chicken recommends 3-1/2 to 4 cups per day for a 100lb dog, and...
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    Nature's Variety Instinct and Raw

    I see you got your answer as far as the raw question, but since you asked about the different kibbles, I figured I'd chime in. We currently feed our pack Instinct chicken, Solid Gold Barking at the Moon, and EVO RM. All of these are grainless formulas, and we also feed Prarie now, and we...
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    Would your dog protect you?

    My wife was afraid at one point that our Rottie, who was always a sweet, friendly dog, (they say meet 90 people in the first 90 days, we made a point of taking him everywhere in Philly that dogs were permitted, so he met 1500 people, at least, in his first 90 days,) had no protection instinct at...
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    Confused about Canidae problems

    I've been reading here about people having problems with the "new" Canidae, and at first, I'll admit, when I heard they're changing the formula and having Diamond make it for them, I wasn't too happy. However, I have yet to see any of the new formula available at any of the 5 stores that I...
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