Wantto start 5 month old keeta on a miz of chappie and biscuit asap. Chappie is a great food and our older dog put on much more weight with that than just kibble. Keeta currently a little underweight....though vet unconcerned...and i'd like to try a few different foods to build her up a bit (ideally without breaking the bank as some feeds are totally extortionate).
I know this isn't what you asked, but I would be careful feeding chappie, as it is very bland and has lots of fillers in it. It is good to use when your dog has an upset tummy, but the dogs that I have known that lived on chappie had their legs go out at an early age. Chappie is lower fat then most foods, as it has a lot of maize and corn in it instead of meat. It is also very low in protein, and the vitamins that dogs need to grow, so I would definitely not put a puppy on it. We do keep chappie on hand for upset tummies, but I wouldn't want it in their regular diet. This is obviously totally up to you, so please don't think I'm having a go! Our dogs did great on Arden grange. It is not that cheap, but it was good quality. We recently changed them to a raw food diet, so I have some left over. I could send some to you if you want to try it out. Best of luck. xx
Hi, no offense taken. :-D both dogs receive kibble and our older dog gets half a can of chappie with his' (a really small amount in comparison to feeding solely on chappie). My parents have used chappie for their dog as a vet reccomended it for the dogs very sensitive tum. Dont want it as the entire intake as I want to keep feeding kibble (a working dog cariety with good ingredients and protein value)...especially on a morning...to help dental care (we're very proud of teeko's pearly whites :-D). Keeta just seems to be struggling with extra kibble...eating too quickly, slightly sensitive on it...and with the chappie in we hope it'll slow her down some plus combat the sensitive tummy side of it. (as this worked a treat for our older boy and he filled out nicely!) Thinking about raw once both fully grown.
That is one of the reasons I edited it, as it was only 2 dogs, and just doing research. If you will look at the can, it is low protein and low fat, so it surprised me that it helped him gain weight, but thinking about it, when we ran out of food and had to feed Chappie for a day, they all scarfed it down, and could have eaten 3 large cans each if I would have let them. :-) We looked after my sister in laws two dalmatians for 2 weeks, and they ran out of chappie, so we just fed them what we had, and they seemed to be able to walk a lot farther then they could while being on chappie. That was only after being on James well beloved ( that was what we fed at the time) for about a week. Before that, they could barely walk around the block, and when they went back to their mummy and daddy, they could walk all the way to the park, play for ages, and then walk homes with no problem. It could be something entirely different, but I always thought it was the chappie. I didn't understand your post properly, I thought you meant biscuits as in milk bones or something, not kibble! Anyway, I just wanted you to know, I'm not judging, or accusing you of doing anything wrong, I was just trying to share my experiences.
Lol dont worry so much :-). They both get csj kibble....which we're happpy with...and i'm waiting for some samples of different varieties from the csj nutritionist persony thing..(they've always been very helpful)....we just want to pad her food out a bit with something easy on the tum...hopefully help her digest her kibble more slowly and eventually gain weight. She's a diddy lil thing as it is! No idea why it helped with teeko...originally we added it because he was bored of his food...now instead of constantly watching his weight coz he's under...we're watching it to make sure he doesn't become a porker ha!
I know chappie is a great help for sensitive tummies....maybe in that way it helps their digestive system become more efficient and the kibble is easily absorbed?? Don't know! Just wish she'd get fat! She's been loving it this week though....the OH made her eggs for brekky today. Yesterday we added tuna. Spoilt pup lol!
Yups, we want to use as an addition not replacement for evening meal only but I wasn't sure if there was an advised age as couldn't see one on the tin. From other people though...5 months sounds okay so we'll give her a go on it for a week, see how she does! :-)
Mine are pretty spoiled as well! Foxie and Cocoa are skinny, although the vet assures me Cocoa looks perfect I still worry about her. Foxie makes Cocoa look fat! She is so small yet, the vet assures me that this is normal, so I try not to worry. Sam is a bit overweight, but we are working on that, and hopefully feeding raw helps! They get exercised twice a day, one being a morning walk, ( about an hour) and the other being an early evening run! Today we went 6 miles bikejoring, and they absolutely loved it! (Which is actually the furthest we have gone.) They are all clonked out now though!:wub:
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posits itself as blomkamp's Robocop but has virtually nothing to say about crime, police militarization or artificial intelligence and instead mostly functions as an ultra-violent, south african E.T. or Iron Giant, which is so blatantly mornoic and ill-conceived im almost inclined to give it credit for some of the all-timer comedy like patel yelling at chappie to nurture his creativity while he decides between painting & committing crimes or the scene where jackman (in his psychopathic catholic high school gym teacher aesthetic, complete with the mullet, lanyard and rugby ball) assaults and threatens to blow patel's brains out in the office and then deflates the situation by going "haha just a prank, guys, everyone go back to work" but the writing here is otherwise so embarrassingly earnest and the performances so miscalculated i just can't do it. still one of the most baffling studio releases of the decade.
A typically incoherent piece of exquisitely designed tech-fetishism from Blomkamp. Has virtually nothing to say about artificial intelligence, privatized/militarized/automated law enforcement, the limits of consciousness, or weird South African prankster rappers, but does continue his distinctive obsession with disrupting human bodies with technology, what metal does to meat. His films are never more compelling or beautiful than when they gaze lovingly at flesh being shredded by bullets like it was pulled pork.
blomkamp is so clearly of the same school as jim cameron and the wachowski sisters -- big themes, messy emotions, a craze for production detail, a fascination with subculture ephemera, a desire to find the transcendent ghost within the oppressive machinery of mundane life.
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