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To: DancesWithCats
what do you give your doggies as treats?

My dogs like raw baby carrots. And I cook up a goop w/ the chicken skin leftover from making broth along with ground turkey, brown rice, oatmeal & carrots. Shape into individual portions & freeze it on a cookie sheet.

15 posted on 09/16/2007 9:20:55 AM PDT by elli1
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To: elli1

My dogs are not vegetable eaters at all. But I’ll try the baby carrots. Just bought a fresh package for my own salads. Your ‘goop’ (doggie gorp! LOL) is an awful lot of fiber. No diarrhea problems? Our one dog consistently has a problem with that. Thanks for the tips!


16 posted on 09/16/2007 9:27:22 AM PDT by DancesWithCats
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To: elli1; DancesWithCats
Be careful with the raw carrots. Our little dog was enjoying carrots one evening and suddenly started choking. We first thought he just needed to go out to throw up, he was making that sort of motion, but when I let him out he ran into the middle of the yard and just fell over onto his side.

It was then I figured the problem was he couldn't breathe. I picked him up and tried to do a Heimlich like on a human but that didn't work. So I picked him up in a standing position and held him between my knees and squeezed his ribs as fast and hard as I could. That worked, and he made the most horrible screaming sound I ever heard, then I set him up on his feet and he was a little wobbly but getting along. Touching his ribs and chest area didn't seem to bother him so I don't think anything got broken, but it was about 24 hours before he was back to normal.

So Spike no longer gets raw carrots. He likes them so much he eats them too fast. But he still enjoys cooked carrots.

18 posted on 09/16/2007 11:15:09 AM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (Oregon - a pro-militia and firearms state that looks just like Afghanistan .)
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