Hungry dogs....

Re: Hungry dogs....

Alison Daff — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:01:50 GMT

Sorry to hear that - I will follow this up with the sales team as you should not feel that way as we still have lots of deals and you should be visited regularly. Please send me your practice address through private message and I will sort something out.

Re: Hungry dogs....

chris beasley — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:28:13 GMT

Do you mean our rep - we very rarely see her! Our last rep Sarah was lovely. visit regularly and always had deals for us. But now! We seem to be just a name on a list! Not sure if she would be of any help in this case. The client would not try samples- have spoken to her before about them.

Re: Hungry dogs....

Alison Daff — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:36:21 GMT

I would suggest you try the RC Satiety - the fibre blend does help keep dogs feel fuller for longer, is a great alternative to Obesity. If you speak to your RC business manager there are certainly things that they can offer you - we do vouchers, support, samples etc

Hope that helps

Ali

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Vicky RVN — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:28:03 GMT

Haha Caro what would we do without you?!

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Caro Laithwaite VN — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:50:53 GMT

ok ffs l just put that on the wrong thread was meant to go on thread about dogs and coptrahagia l just realised blame it on nights l intend to ffs

Re: Hungry dogs....

A Little TLC — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:48:09 GMT

HAHAHAHA!!!

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Caro Laithwaite VN — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:42:49 GMT

Pineapple juice/chunks work. I eat and drink the stuff and have no urge..

ok ok blame Fi she said to post this ....sneaking back to my corner

Re: Hungry dogs....

Emma Bartlett — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:48:21 GMT

Have you thought of trying Popcorn? Just the plain kernals popped in a pan...obviously not the sweet or salty cinema variety My dogs love it....and its low in calories

Re: Hungry dogs....

Rachel Jayne — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:41:58 GMT

I always use satiety as opposed to obesity, find it works much better.

Gets the weight off quicker & clients are more satisfied with it.

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chris beasley — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:02:05 GMT

I suppose I should give it another try, but I dont really want to get another lecture from the client on how I am wasting her money. I need to stay focussed on the dogs needs!

Re: Hungry dogs....

bongo — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:45:20 GMT

we use rcw satiety support for weight clinics who the owners say are still looking hungry wheh they have had their meals, seems to work quite well. do you have this at your practice??

Re: Hungry dogs....

loobylou — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:45:26 GMT

RCW is just another brand- royal canin waltham.
They have versions of all/ most of the diets hills do.

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Dodo bird — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:20:54 GMT

so sorry to sound silly but we are a Hills practice and i use rd alot - is RCW a dry food?? is there a tinned equivillent?? if so maybe you could use a little of both ?? or add a little water to it to take away hunger pains??

Re: Hungry dogs....

chris beasley — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:43:09 GMT

RCW wont give free bags anymore. But I dont think she would try even if I could persude her to. She is a very abrupt Dutch Lady. Has a very large garden so doesnt think it is ness to walk her dog!

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Maisy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:41:02 GMT

Chris your RCW rep might help (Are you a Royal Canin practice?). At my last place I had a client whose Lab would not lose weight, he was about 50kg so definitely needed to! Obesity didn't do a great deal and client didn't want to keep changing food as she didn't feel they worked, so rep offered her a foc bag of Satiety instead and this worked brilliantly. Don't know if anyone else has seen this, but Satiety really works well for the hugely overweight and scavenging dogs so this might be worth a go?

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loobylou — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:40:08 GMT

Isn't the rcw satiety support supposed to help keep the dog feeling fuller for longer?

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chris beasley — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:34:39 GMT

I have a client with a massively over weight lab. Now has cruciate problems which of course are related to weight. Wa on RCW ob diet for 3 mths - lost 1kg ! Has complained dog is bitting everyone as is so hungry, snatches things from their hands.

Put on Yartivan for 1mth. Managed to put on weight, Client was very abusive on phone as wasted her money! Its a client problem, she wont use all other trinks like puzzle balls and now locks dog in kitchen at meal times. Dont think she is going to speak to me again!

Re: Hungry dogs....

Caro Laithwaite VN — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:09:50 GMT

Back in Tenreife l was trying to get a friend to stop feeding his dog dime bars. He swore his dog would not eat any other titbits but them and if it did not get about 4 or 5 a day hell would happen.

No matter what if those dime bars did not appear from the fridge and anything else did there was howls screams and abuse from said dog.

So l had him use dime bar wrappers and put bits of titbit inside them and use those. The dog ate them. He figured the dog was fooled into it l figure it was just a guts that wanted anything.

Re: Hungry dogs....

Steph Phillips — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:09:23 GMT

Mmm.. Then she's probably getting it wrong... I reckon the dog's not hungery - just attention seeking, she needs to ignore it!

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Royalsuper_fairy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:04:32 GMT

The dog is used to the amount of food it has been on. Who knows

Re: Hungry dogs....

Steph Phillips — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:01:09 GMT

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it has to be vet prescribed but slentrol is an appetite suppressant so until the dog's used to smaller meals this could help.

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LOL.. I was just gonna mention Selentrol - you beat me too it!! xxx

Re: Hungry dogs....

Stella Skelton RVN — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:50:15 GMT

it has to be vet prescribed but slentrol is an appetite suppressant so until the dog's used to smaller meals this could help.

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Fiona Leathers — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:43:24 GMT

You could add in protexin pro fibre to the food, this would help bulk out the diet and make them feel less hungry, just started with my old dog who seems to forget she's been fed and it seems to be making a difference. Also she had started eating her own poo, and that has stopped since starting pro fibre

Re: Hungry dogs....

Stella Skelton RVN — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:19:56 GMT

You could try telling her that her dog has learned to play hungry!!

If the dog does something in particular - for example; whining at the food bowl or whatever - and if the woman gives the dog attention or food - she's reinforcing the action - i.e. dog whines - dog gets food or attention.

Tell her to ignore any advances that may make her think that the dog is hungry. Eventually the dog will move on once it realises that it's pleas are not working anymore.

Thought that a behaviour point of view may help too.

Re: Hungry dogs....

Royalsuper_fairy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:53:00 GMT

Hehe thanks you guys!

Just needed some body else to tell me what I already knew!