AZPops
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Pawz4me
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For a basically healthy dog, I think it would take many months of a very limited diet to develop any nutritional deficiencies worth worrying about. If you're concerned you could probably add in some calcium and a multi-vitamin w/o risking a tummy upset.
FWIW, I have a friend who swears her brother has fed his dog chicken and rice for his main diet for the dog's whole life. And the dog is around 11 or 12 now and apparently healthy.
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AZPops
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Pawz4me wrote:For a basically healthy dog, I think it would take many months of a very limited diet to develop any nutritional deficiencies worth worrying about. If you're concerned you could probably add in some calcium and a multi-vitamin w/o risking a tummy upset.
FWIW, I have a friend who swears her brother has fed his dog chicken and rice for his main diet for the dog's whole life. And the dog is around 11 or 12 now and apparently healthy.
Thanks, yes this is one of my main concerns in regards to if Harlee's getting what she needs. She still won't eat her regular food.
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PamfromVA
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My husband's grandmother cooked a chicken everyday for her dog. He also ate at the table with a full place setting. The first time we stopped by their house I know my mouth was hanging open the entire time. It didn't take me long to realize that "Charlie" was now their child. He lived to be 15 years old and was really a great dog.
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AZPops wrote:Pawz4me wrote:For a basically healthy dog, I think it would take many months of a very limited diet to develop any nutritional deficiencies worth worrying about. If you're concerned you could probably add in some calcium and a multi-vitamin w/o risking a tummy upset.
FWIW, I have a friend who swears her brother has fed his dog chicken and rice for his main diet for the dog's whole life. And the dog is around 11 or 12 now and apparently healthy.
Thanks, yes this is one of my main concerns in regards to if Harlee's getting what she needs. She still won't eat her regular food.
Pops
Add a boiled egg to her regular food. I've had them be on death's door from not eating and they just can't resist it when you add an egg. An egg contains just about everything one needs to sustain life too with the most easiest digestible protein.
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PamfromVA wrote:My husband's grandmother cooked a chicken everyday for her dog. He also ate at the table with a full place setting. The first time we stopped by their house I know my mouth was hanging open the entire time. It didn't take me long to realize that "Charlie" was now their child. He lived to be 15 years old and was really a great dog.
That was an extremely lucky dog. Eating cooked chicken bones can kill an animal.
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Bella is on a pureed diet so I need to be very careful about her nutritional needs....I add dried kelp/ bluberries along with Biovites powder which is a full dietary supplement...she gets cottage cheese in her puree for calcium....could you add some sweet potato to the chicken and rice...it is easily digested, a good source of vitamins and fiber .... you might be successful with giving vitamin pills...they have lots of good ones available for dogs...
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My buddy cooked chicken breasts, rice and green peas plus an occasional vitamin for his Dalmation who managed to go to 16 1/2 years. Finally got incontinent and hips went. He had to have her put down.
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Pawz4me
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nabi wrote:she gets cottage cheese in her puree for calcium
Cottage cheese isn't a very good source of calcium. The point of giving a dog calcium is to balance the phosphorus in other commonly fed foods. Cottage cheese has WAY more phosphorus than calcium, so it's actually detrimental. Calcium supplements, Tums or dried ground eggshells are better IMO.
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About 3 days on just chicken and rice. Longer if you give him some water too.
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