stones

[Eggy]

hello on here and i know you are on here .
my pup at 6 months is picking up stones playing with them then swollwing them i did mind the pea size ones but they are now about 3 inches long now so i am concernd . all throughts would be welcome . atb colin :idea:

[Kat67]

A potential operation in the making! Not good m8..has he access to these stones when you're not keeping an eye on him then?

[Gerry4292]

One of my dogs keeps playing with stones,I just tell her no and take them out of her mouth.It takes her a long time to give something she likes doing but she will in the end.(Ain't that just like a women :lol: :lol:)

[Kat67]

One of my dogs keeps playing with stones,I just tell her no and take them out of her mouth.It takes her a long time to give something she likes doing but she will in the end.(Ain't that just like a women :lol: :lol:)

LOL if she actually understood what no meant you wouldnt still have to constantly be removing stones:roll: Sounds like you've got a great game developing there Gerry:rolleyes:

[Gerry4292]

LOL if she actually understood what no meant you wouldnt still have to constantly be removing stones:roll: Sounds like you've got a great game developing there Gerry:rolleyes:


Yeah only trouble is she don't like losing games lol.It's not funny though I'm running out of peashingle as well as my sense of humer with this game.:lol:

[Jiff]

i've had lurchers of one strain or another for the past 30 years, when i got into falconry i got me self a brittany spanniel, when he was a pup he ate more stones than food, i can remember posting on here myself about the same problem mate, my dog grew out of it, but it is worrying at the time, i went fishing once and took him with me, as i walked the river bank, casting a spiner/plug for pike i let him do he's own thing, on the way home i called at the shop, i left him in the car for the few minutes, when i returned the stench was unbareable even for me, in the front passenger footwell were enough stones to make a decent dry stone wall along with twigs and weed and what ever else he decided was edible.

[Sprout]

I've operated on more than one dog to remove stones!!! Some huge, others you'd think would pass through.

[Jiff]

years ago when we fed sheeps heads and brown bread we never had this, do you not think sprout, that today's modern foods may be lacking in mineral and or trace ellements, which then becomes a problem for the dog, and the dog knowing much more than we do about it's own well being feels the need to add these ellements to it's own diet, and so eats the stones after just one lick, because it knows what it needs is within, just a thaught!

[Sprout]

years ago when we fed sheeps heads and brown bread we never had this, do you not think sprout, that today's modern foods may be lacking in mineral and or trace ellements, which then becomes a problem for the dog, and the dog knowing much more than we do about it's own well being feels the need to add these ellements to it's own diet, and so eats the stones after just one lick, because it knows what it needs is within, just a thaught!

No. Buy a top quality diet from one of the top producers who spend millions each year to determine the ideal intake for a dog.

[Gerry4292]

No. Buy a top quality diet from one of the top producers who spend millions each year to determine the ideal intake for a dog.


3 house bricks and a breeze block,thats my rots usual intake :lol: :lol:

[Sprout]

3 house bricks and a breeze block,thats my rots usual intake :lol: :lol:

At least there is variety:supz:

[Jiff]

i see you're point mate but untill dogs learn to talk, who exactly determins theire dietry needs, us! again you will need to convince me on this one, my brittany is the first dog i've fed on wholely commercial food and he ate bricks like that thing out of never ending story, now in my opinion for a dog to do that it's trying to replicate something that is lacking.(iams is good) not! most commercial dog foods are made up from mostly cerial matter, as carnivors as you know(alot of people think that a carnivor is a meat eater) but in essence a carnivor is a whole animal eater, which means they not only eat the flesh of the prey but also the internal organs and some bone, they get theire vegitable matter and protein from the dietry tract and stomach of the prey animal, depending on theire instinct and need depends what they eat, a lion taking a zebra, will after killing the beast break it open and sometimes eat the stomach first, because it feels the need to do so, it is'nt equiped to graze grass but never the less requires somesort of vegitable protien in it's diet being a carnivor, the same goes for dogs, replicating chemicaly the protien and mineral content of a food is only beneficial to the owner readin the label and paying for the fancy bag, the dog can't read and if it could it wouldnt part with it's hard earned cash for a bag of musily.

[Sprout]

i see you're point mate but untill dogs learn to talk, who exactly determins theire dietry needs, us! again you will need to convince me on this one, my brittany is the first dog i've fed on wholely commercial food and he ate bricks like that thing out of never ending story, now in my opinion for a dog to do that it's trying to replicate something that is lacking.(iams is good) not! most commercial dog foods are made up from mostly cerial matter, as carnivors as you know(alot of people think that a carnivor is a meat eater) but in essence a carnivor is a whole animal eater, which means they not only eat the flesh of the prey but also the internal organs and some bone, they get theire vegitable matter and protein from the dietry tract and stomach of the prey animal, depending on theire instinct and need depends what they eat, a lion taking a zebra, will after killing the beast break it open and sometimes eat the stomach first, because it feels the need to do so, it is'nt equiped to graze grass but never the less requires somesort of vegitable protien in it's diet being a carnivor, the same goes for dogs, replicating chemicaly the protien and mineral content of a food is only beneficial to the owner readin the label and paying for the fancy bag, the dog can't read and if it could it wouldnt part with it's hard earned cash for a bag of musily.

I don't need to convince you of anything? If what you feed suits your animals then who am I to tell you to change??? If you want a deeper understanding of HOW the big companies formulate their diets I suggest you phone them or visit them - its certainly an eye opener!! And believe me, it takes more than just asking them what 9 out of 10 dogs prefer - they spend millions on experiments determining what percentage of this, that and everything else makes the ideal diet - it is science. I personally don't know what is the best or what is required so I use what the experts tell me to use - they do the research, I have no reason not to believe them.
Dogs are omnivores.
Cats are obligate carnivores.

[SmythShep]

going off the thread a little.weve got 2 basset hounds and every so often they will eat grass then throw it back up again,they have a well balanced diet and plenty of exercise,anyone know why they do this.

[Kat67]

Yeah only trouble is she don't like losing games lol.It's not funny though I'm running out of peashingle as well as my sense of humer with this game.:lol:

Think you're missing my point! Why on earth are you still allowing this behaviour? No means bloody NO... not no but if I dont see you then oops.. Get on the case man..