Skinny bitch

feldandjack · Guru

Skinny bitch

Valerie · Guru

Poor Cara - you didn't mention pasta? I believe that's an old favourite for weight gain - rice?
Biscuit weighs around 26-7kg, and from memory, Cara is a bit taller than him!

Biscuit must be reading your posts on this, cos I tried him with a chicken wing, and it was a farce -ended up binning about a dozen wings as he wouldn't eat it - too scared of it. Kept pushing it around the garden, trying to make it go away. blankstare

max · Enlightened One

Ye, pasta, rice and potatoes all nice and starchy to put on some meat on those bones. Putting on weight is not any of my lots problem it is keeping the weight off !! biggrin

Nora

feldandjack · Guru

Valerie wrote:

Poor Cara - you didn't mention pasta? I believe that's an old favourite for weight gain - rice?

If the pasta is normal size, she lifts it out her dish and hides it, so I break up the pasta tubes before cooking and hide them in the mince. wink

Rice gives her the scoots. Biscuit is just like Cara with the chicken, pushing it about until it gets lost somewhere furious

I'll give the spuds a go, it's a pity she can't have chocolate, I find that piles the fat on nae bother smile

max · Enlightened One

Sorry chocolate is a definate NO NO !!!!! lol biggrin

Nora

Murphyandco · Graduate

After lots of trial and error with our fussy dogs we have pretty much decided not to feed them anything that we wouldn't eat ourselves. Murphy especially is a very fussy eater and tends to lose weight quickly as he runs so much and so fast when he is out. Have you tried Cara with cheesy mashed potato? Just grate cheese into hot mash til its all melted in-very fattening and great for mixing meaty bits etc into!! I also boil pasta and veg with a stock cube and give it all a whizz in the food processor before i add the meaty bits. Murphy and Jazz love raw chicken wings etc,but Lucy won't touch them so I boil the meat or fish and use the water it was cooked in to cook the rice or pasta in-very tasty and full of fatty goodness smile

Good luck!

tootsmazza · Enlightened One

Does Cara eat eggs? Mason loves eggs, scrambled, fried or made into an omelette with cheese?
Mind you Mason's favourite food in the world is pizza, any type with any type of topping.
Also liver cake is good for a treat because you can alter the recipe to use as much liver, eggs, flour as you want to make it as starchy or proteiny as you need.
Do you have the recipe?
Marie

Thistle · Old Hand

Hi Marie,
Could you post the liver cake recipe it sounds interesting, I might try it out on my family, only joking but I know the dogs would love it.

feldandjack · Guru

Cheesy mashed spuds went down a treat with cooked oxtail mixed in smile

I think posting the liver cake recipe is a great idea. Cara does eat the odd cooked egg (pity, cause eggs are the one thing I have lots of, and I don't have to buy them.) I found a shop with the dog raw meat foods, they are frozen and you just thaw them out and feed them. Cara was not interested, so it's back to the coop mince etc. cry

Cara is full of beans (or should I say spuds) and all set for her wander with the GAL dogs tommorow, lets hope the weather is nice biggrin

I've filled my pockets with poo bags and sick bags ashamed

can't wait to meet Lucy.
Anne

feldandjack · Guru

Cara must have enjoyed her walk, just polished off a big bowl of haggis, neeps and spuds. Not sure if this is good for her, but she did eat it all and she is Scottish! wink

diane · Old Hand

Bella must have worked up an appetite aswell as she has just finished off an aberdeen angus steak pie and gravy with peas. Yum!

tootsmazza · Enlightened One

Thistle wrote:

Hi Marie,
Could you post the liver cake recipe it sounds interesting, I might try it out on my family, only joking but I know the dogs would love it.

My recipe is a large pack of liver whizzed in a blender with two eggs and six garlic cloves, with a small pack of self raising flour folded in.
Stick it in the oven in a large greased baking tin at gas mark 4 - think that's 180c, not sure - for 45 mins to an hour.
You can add less flour to make it less spongey or more to stretch it out and it freezes v. well.
It does stink but the dogs love it, you might even find the family do to as long as they don't see the blending bit bleh

Marie

Isla · Enlightened One

Sounds revolting! bleh

That's a dead cert that my lot will love it! wink

feldandjack · Guru

OMG!!!!! Grandchildren staying tonight, and Cara STOLE something to eat idea

she came accross their stash of toffee popcorn (we don't hide food here, cause she NEVER steals food) Cara likes popcorn weirdface

is it bad for her, will she pile on the pounds? I'm a wee bit stunned, she got quite excited about it, she may be normalish after all biggrin

Katie · Master

feldandjack wrote:

OMG!!!!! Grandchildren staying tonight, and Cara STOLE something to eat she came accross their stash of toffee popcorn (we don't hide food here, cause she NEVER steals food) Cara likes popcorn is it bad for her, will she pile on the pounds? I'm a wee bit stunned, she got quite excited about it, she may be normalish after all

LOL, what a wee sneak, let's hope she does pile on the pounds, we hide all the food, Lulu will try anything once...anything, she even stole some of my wine out of my glass the other night, little minx

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Thanks for posting the recipe Marie

, I'm off to the shops to get the ingredients this afternoon

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tootsmazza · Enlightened One

Cara the sneak thief! Who'd have thought it biggrin

Maybe you should try hiding all the food you want her to eat so she thinks its forbidden and see if that whets her appetite wink

Marie

Thistle · Old Hand

I made the liver cake this week, it was really easy to make, stank a bit when it was cooking ashamed

but both our dogs loved it

Thanks again.

feldandjack · Guru

I also made liver cake, but as I have poor sense of smell the cooking didn't bother me. Cara had four or five bits, then lost interest. My OH did notice the smell when it was cooking ashamed

but said the smell was much worse later on, once Cara had processed it. Does anyone else notice the wind getting up after liver cake?
We are having a family get together this weekend and I'm sure the 5 terriers (2 Border, 2 Lakeland and a Tibetan) and the 2 lurchers, together with nextdoors greyhound will enjoy the livercake thats left wink

Thanks for the recipe.

Anne

tootsmazza · Enlightened One

Glad the dogs are enjoying the cake, although trust Cara to turn her nose up.
I have to admit I haven't noticed any wind problems with it, but Mason isn't a particularly gassy dog, despite being a bloke.
Apart from his 'bow and fart' stretch routine after a long nap he's pretty odour free, thank goodness wink

Marie

scoobcleecook · Master

Have just found this thread and am VERY pleased to have done so! Myrtle is slowly losing weight at the moment (loads of tests done, all negative, everything working fine, vet says it's old age - she's 12 and a half), so I'm going to try some of the suggestions!

Re the liver cake thing, I always found it excellent to chop up for training purposes, and I was baking one, one day, when one of my friends came to visit. She got quite excited by the smell till I told her what it was....."Typical! You finally do some baking and it's for your b****y dogs!!!!!!" You can tell she was a cat person!!!!

Anyway, yours with fingers crossed

Jean

Shadows mum · Graduate

My dogs love liver cake. I don't mind the smell of it once its been cooked!