Dogs & Regular Food

[af1 1982]

Tips on making your dogs breath smell better?

My dudes breath is KICKING. Smells like an Asian fish market. I can't even play with him no more. We tried using this liquid floss spray but he just takes it and then goes right to his bowl to make his breath stinky again.

 

[AgentZero]

 
Tips on making your dogs breath smell better?

My dudes breath is KICKING. Smells like an Asian fish market. I can't even play with him no more. We tried using this liquid floss spray but he just takes it and then goes right to his bowl to make his breath stinky again.

I'm not sure if this is advised but when I was younger my parents would give the dogs we had some gum. They also had some mint flavored treats to chew on. That and brushing their teeth every few months or so.

 

[a-friend]

I've always been a pet guy. My mother manages a Apt Complex and at least once a month she finds strays that need homes. Over the last two years there has been a handful that she'd taken home after being unsuccessful in finding them homes, and two of those dogs I grew attached to so I took ownership of them. Long story short is, I was never aware that their diet was important because as a kid (a semi-poverished family) we only fed our dogs what we had left from the table, it's all we could afford most days. They always were healthy, it seemed.
Well, one of the dogs that I took in was about 2 years old this past April. She was a Bull Mastiff so she was 150lbs. I fed that dog everything leftover from dinners on a weekly. Sometimes this was full servings of Fried Chicken and sometimes steak, but I did this on top of her dogfood for the entirety of her two year life span. Now just imagine everything that you can eat in two years, and you will understand exactly what my dog was eating while she was alive. Yea, she passed away in April. When I found her she was completely paralyzed almost laying in her on feces and a puddle of drool. I immediately thought that my neighbor had poisoned her because she barked a lot at night and, I had other issues with this neighbor. After taking her to the vet she passed away an hour after being there and they too didn't know why but said that she had some type of gastric issue that had possibly flipped her stomach or something.
It was over the next few weeks when I came to realize that I had killed my dog myself and that my neighbor hadn't poisoned her.
In trying to find proof of poisoning via google and matching the things I learned with her symptoms, I actually found my proof that I had killed her over time with a poor poor diet.
I was devastated.
I took in another dog a month before she died that is a small breed, a Havanese specifically.
This dog only gets the proper diet with occasional meats/food dropped on the floor while cooking or eating at the table.

Sorry for the paragraph but I wanted to share my story of just pure ignorance in the hopes that it may save some friends of yours from the same fate in the future.

 

[jadakhanman]

Idk about the rest of you but I think wet dog food is absolutely disgusting. It gets all over their faces and it just looks like swill. Reminds me if school lunch sloppy joes from back in the day. I still get nightmares about those school lunches.

Random story: one time I brought my dog over to my friends house and he accidentally ate a w**d cookie. Worst night of my life. Thought the lil guy was going to die. He couldn't stand and he just laid there moaning. I swear i was in a full panic for almost 12 hrs. It was the night so there were no vets open. He recovered but now I hate my friend. Idk why but I couldn't stand to ever look at that dude again.

 

[Humbled]

I remember going to check the mail once, and when I came back in the house, my chihuahua that I had was going ham on both my Jack In The Box tacos. She finished off one, looked at me like "son of a *****, he's back" and started eating faster

Aw hell nah bruh. Dog would have gotten that Stone Cold mudhole stomping.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

This thread is HILARIOUS! Filled with the lulz

 

[degenerate423]

Odds are it's lipoma. Just a fatty tissue tumor that's not cancerous. It will annoy the dog and may get bigger. If it is getting bigger, you might want to get it surgically removed. Being on his back I imagine it could put pressure on his spine.

There is a slight chance it is actually cancer. Take him to the vet and get it looked at.

Co-signing this.  Not uncommon in older pets, but get it checked out anyway just to be sure.

 

[cobra kai]

used to even feed my dog ice cream when i was done, would do like a spoonful if it was like a fruit flavored sorbet.

but he eats his own dog food most of the time. he knows the rules.