Almost without exception, pre-packaged, prepared food is more expensive than buying say...bulk pasta and making your own sauce. Take the money you spend on boxes of hamburger helper and buy a bigger bag of pasta or rice. Poor, peasant people in China survived on a little fish, seaweed and rice. Rice is a cheap but good food and you can get a lot more for the money you spend on Hamburger Helper. You can buy cheap, store brand tomato sauce, a real onion and whatever else you need and it will make oodles of spaghetti sauce. The more someone else has to package something, the more money goes into it. You can also make very nutritious, homemade soups in large amounts for very little money. I use a lot of Ham hocks for a base or those turkey drumsticks they sell in packages of 2. They're cheap, low in fat and very good for a quick turkey soup. Or a whole turkey is probably more ecconomical.
You should get a Chihuahua. They don't eat 10 cups of food a day. They eat less than 1/2 cup per day. No matter how poor I get, I think I'll be able to manage two meals each with less than 1/4 cup each a day. I would never have a dog that ate that much. It would put me in the poor house and I'm not that close to being poor.
I don't know that much about sighthounds, granted, but to me, those pictures, just instinctively disturb me. Something in my maternal instinct causes me to re-coil. But I'm glad you're working on putting weight on him. I hope it works. I realize that no dog should be fat and that lean is good. My dogs are a tad on the pudgy side because when they stay at me ex's, he over feeds them, even though I show him how much to give. He just can't believe that so little is enough. So, now I'm working on cutting them back, little by little.
If racing dogs are bred to be so lean, their metabolisms selected that way, since it must make them run faster, maybe some modification should be done in breeding, so there's a happy medium. That just looks unnatural to me. He looks like some of those dogs on Animal Cops. But then again....it's true. I am not a Greyhound person. I'm a mother though, if that makes any difference.
At any rate, I know you're not purposely neglecting him and that you will do everything you can to get him back where he should be.
It looks like that was a fun day at that beautiful beach and your little boy is adorable.
You should get a Chihuahua. They don't eat 10 cups of food a day. They eat less than 1/2 cup per day. No matter how poor I get, I think I'll be able to manage two meals each with less than 1/4 cup each a day. I would never have a dog that ate that much. It would put me in the poor house and I'm not that close to being poor.
I don't know that much about sighthounds, granted, but to me, those pictures, just instinctively disturb me. Something in my maternal instinct causes me to re-coil. But I'm glad you're working on putting weight on him. I hope it works. I realize that no dog should be fat and that lean is good. My dogs are a tad on the pudgy side because when they stay at me ex's, he over feeds them, even though I show him how much to give. He just can't believe that so little is enough. So, now I'm working on cutting them back, little by little.
If racing dogs are bred to be so lean, their metabolisms selected that way, since it must make them run faster, maybe some modification should be done in breeding, so there's a happy medium. That just looks unnatural to me. He looks like some of those dogs on Animal Cops. But then again....it's true. I am not a Greyhound person. I'm a mother though, if that makes any difference.
At any rate, I know you're not purposely neglecting him and that you will do everything you can to get him back where he should be.
It looks like that was a fun day at that beautiful beach and your little boy is adorable.
