Do I need to dock/clip the tail of my Rottweiler puppy

I will cook cabbage and feed my rottweiler.

 

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for someone who doesn't have much time, you sure seem to try to find ways to make things more time-consuming.

you don't have to cook food for dogs. you can get good pet food at the store, wet and dry. they even have food that is refrigerated now.

 

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Food in petshop contains preservative, artificial coloring etc.
Home cooked food is the best.
Right now I mix both types of food for my dog.

 

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The best food for a dog is raw meat ONLY, with small bones in. They can eat guts and stuff a butcher throws away, but they need bones or a bone meal supplement.

If you have to feed cooked food, feed ONLY cooked though, because mixing raw and cooked can make the dog sick.

Brown rice is easier for the dog to digest than other grains.
Be careful with COOKED bones, the dog can choke and die.

Dogs can eat almost anything but they need meat and bones, either whole and raw, or cooked and ground up very fine.

NEVER feed a dog chocolate, it can kill them. Garlic, I was told by my vet, is not good for them.

Have you taken your dogs to the veterinarian? Your dogs will need shots and heartworm preventive pills.

 

Rgarlic is ok but onions are toxic

 

ridiculous. there is also crap in the food you eat and there is crap in meat unless you buy organic. are you feeding your dogs strictly organic meat? lmao. if you want to spend time cooking your dogs three meals a day, then that's you and other crazy people who have that kind of time. i'm not talking about purina chow though the one formula is better. there are very high quality premium and even organic brands of dog food at pet stores.

a good pet food will have protein as the first and even second ingredient (not meal protein or corn), some will even include vegetables. there is a lot of variety out there and some very specialized formulas and they are going to be more nutritionally balanced for the dog than what you may feed them. even regular stores carry some of it but you will definitely find a lot at pet stores. i think it's stupid to cook for your dogs specifically unless they are sick.

you barely have time to walk them or spend time with them and you are talking about cooking for them. don't you also have kids? are you going to devote most of your time to your dogs?

all in all, you make no fuking sense. you seem to be a person with little to no common sense either.

 

We had a German Shepherd/Rottie that we got as a few days old pup... had its tail docked (had a local anesthesia used), but for a pretty good reason - last dog we had had a bad habit of knocking my little brother in the face/eyes with his tail (he was, I think 3-4 at the time we got the new one). He never seemed to have problems getting his intentions across without a tail... but then again, this dog was smart enough to housebreak itself, learn commands, literally, the second or third time you issue them, and even taught himself to open the door to the back yard whenever he needed to go out (and eventually learned to CLOSE the door on his way back in)...

*sighs* I miss that dog... never seen one as intelligent as him since...

 

yes, it was vaccinated once.
will take him to vaccinate for second time this month.

 

Does this imply that the food in USA is not safe to be consumed by humans?

 

If a burglar offers your dog poisoned food, will your dog eat it?
How to train dog not to eat anything from stranger?

 

i second that FR, my dog has an allergy problem so she is on a special diet that works quite well. The problem is that she will eat ANYTHING she can get, the cats food, anything that falls on the floor, plastic wrappers from choc or lollies. Its a bloody pain in the neck

edit to add, the "apears to be edible" apears more vollentry than mandiatory. Eats anything that doesnt eat them comes closer

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So do they actually eat mice and birds or just kill them for sport?

My now easy-going relaxed dalmatian jumped up once and in an instant 2 birds were cut in half, their parts all over the ground. It was shocking.

Also I found a dead mouse with its skin off next to her favourite sleeping spot one day.

 

Ha, point 2 might need an addendum: 'to a dog'!

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Mine eat Goose poo when we take them around the local nature reserve. They have no interest in chasing the birds, but they will try to get a little snack.

 

I read in newspaper that burglar threw poisoned food on the yard and let the dog eat first before breaking into the house.
The dog get poisoned and died on the spot or it was made powerless to bark aloud and fight intruders.
Basically, dogs do not resist food from strangers.

 

Yeah, on a related note, we found the carcass of a dead Goose at the local nature reserve recently, we could tell it hadn't been eaten by a fox, as they pretty much just leave the wings (this looks a little odd, a disembodied pair of wings laying about).