Dear JVolkman!

Thanks for your interest and your suggestions!

I saw on another thread - the diet of raw ground beef, fresh green beans and oatmeal - just wondering if Ben should be eating that instead of the Pedigree food that we feed him, currently.

Anyhow - please let me know if the diet you mentioned before is worth giving to him on a regular basis - or is it just to treat for cataracts? Also, I remember someone saying that the diet seemed more natural (I think this too!)....but I just wondered it it would be too rich?!

Any comments welcome....sincerely, Lisa

Thanks so much JVolkman, much appreciated! Lisa

Dear Lisa
You could also look at earlier threads which deal with doggy diets.
GM seems always to advise that the dog is presented with a plentiful supply of beef bones which he is then allowed to bury until such time as he deems them ready to mange pour son dejuner. This way the bacteria in the soil work on the bone to make its nutrients assimilable to the dawg. He knows when it's ready, 'cos he has a nose for it.
Any place for a dawg to bury his bones in Oman? Don't tell the gardener I said so.

Hi! Since I joined the BB last Fall, and took GM's great advice on giving my dog bones, I have a healthy pet, but a yard filled with bones waiting for her to bury. What's up? Why doen't she bury them? Do I have to do all the work? There's real soft soil out back...She digs holes for the fun of it, but buries nodda.

Mayb shes too urbanised, forgot that she is a dog, or you have given her so many, that she do only bury a few, they she needs.

A little pure speculation about dogs and their bones.
I wonder if it's only the dogs who need the bones pre-digested that have the digging/buring/remembering behaviour.
I know a dog who very badly needs it (in my opinion) but is forbidden from burying his bones in the garden because of the lovely flowers etc. He has all the behaviours associated with needing the buried bones such as loving big sticks (bone substitues), digging, remembering where he left his stick in the meadow from the previous day. Atrophy of his hind quarters show that he needs it.
By contrast the other dog (younger) has little interest in digging or sticks and she has no tissue atropy.
Another explanation is just that some dawgs are clever, others stupid.

Sorry - I hadn't checked this post for a few days....I'm laughing - while I picture Mselle's dawg staring blankly at all the bones in the garden, wondering, 'what do I do with this treasure?'

And Ben is a smart cookie....

He loves to bury his bones....he gets bones - but not regularly - as we don't always eat a lot of meat....But I can try to get them on a regular basis from the Officer's Mess! They should have heaps of them on a daily basis...but...one question...

Is is okay to freeze them (raw or cooked - either, cuz we'll get them both ways!)....wouldn't they still be any good? Just want to make sure we're not inadvertantly doing something so mundane as freezing - only to find out that this is no good and they lose nutrition...

I still stumble across a few old bones that he has not eaten completely - that are no longer buried...and I throw those away as they are sharp and my children have actually cut their feet on them!

Is the Pedigree brand of Dog Food good? Of course - not on its own - but if we add fresh ground beef daily - is it okay? He seems to like the biscuits..although I do remember when he was a young dawwwwg (about a year old) that he never finished them all, but he does now....please advise - cuz I have a hunch you're gonna tell me to quit this and go for something different.
Thanks all, Lisa

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Tomorrow I will teach my dog how to dig. I will get down on all fours and tear up the earth with my daintly red polished fingernails. I will then drop the bone from my sensuous pink tinted mouth into the gapping hole. Next, I will do an about face, and kicking soil up with my sweetly scented bare feet, (which a man in Paris once asked if he could kiss), fill up the gap. I shall then pretend to wagg a poodle cut tail by shaking my cute little *** . By nodding my empty, but pretty head in the "fait a comple" direction she will understand that it is her turn to prove her worth. I will report back after I get my head examined. dot-dot-dash- Mselle

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LOL!!
Lisa

Mselle, just what is it that you are trying to teach your dogette? More that the ususal line in burying if I'm not mistaken.