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Post by Romi on May 17, 2016 17:48:29 GMT
Sounds like you have found the nosh that lights her candle, well done. And a brilliant day out - what more can a hound ask for?
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Post by antoniaalfie55 on May 17, 2016 18:43:40 GMT
I am so loving your Margot updates, well done for getting her to finally eat . I also have three fussy Hounds who will turn their nose up at scrambled egg and tuna for breakfast
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Post by sighthounds on May 18, 2016 7:39:29 GMT
Great updates, you have a great way with words - you should write a book. Tripe is really good for them, although it stinks the house out, glad you have found something she likes.
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Post by Margot's Corps de Ballet on May 18, 2016 9:06:10 GMT
Good morning and thanks for the insight and invaluable advice and support. Margot slept well and I took her out to the garden for her morning ablutions, then dished up some raw food, (NI), for her breakfast. She not only ignored, but purposefully walked in the opposite direction. I didn't react at all. I then took it out into the garden, placing it on the high railway sleeper and sat down within 2' of the bowl and called her. She tentatively sniffed, looked around for 'permission' from me and proceeded to eat. This is the first breakfast meal she has ever eaten! Putting together her behaviours around other dogs we've met when out and about, her demeanour ranges from acutely submissive to outright fear to the extent that she *asks* for her harness to be reattached to the lead and for protection. She needs almost constant reassurance that I am 'there for her', looking back when off lead, never straying too far ahead or when lingering over a particuarly interesting scent marked clump of grass, races to catch up. She does seem to appreciate being *mentored* almost, by Freya and more recently Maxie who have encouraged her to "be more hound". These clues lead me to believe that she was fed only sporadically, on goodness knows what, was pretty low down in the rankings of the hound hierarchy and was bullied and terrorised by both hounds and humans. I feel she was a clown in a previous life as she truly delights in being able to make me laugh, literally, out loud, ( what must the neighbours think?! Haha!), with her seeming ability to morph, transform herself into so many different animals by her antics. She prances like a dressage horse when *really* interested in a scurrying mammal and potential kill in the undergrowth and leaf litter of the Forest. The way she arches her neck, tucking in her 'chin' when play-fighting, is cat-like when stalking the kamikaze wood pigeons, the way she uses her front legs reminds me of a boxing kangaroo and the grace with which she gambols is red deer/ gazelle like and when she jumps, could be mistaken for a springbok on the savannah. And not forgetting her deep, resonating, "Scooby-Do" vocals which are totally out of keeping with her gentle, delicate character, so much so that I ask myself, "did she really make that sound?" We'll have only a short walk today to buy up all the frozen minced green tripe which I will later mix with the Nutriment
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Post by Mimsmum on May 18, 2016 10:07:32 GMT
Time to go to happy endings poppet. You can still update it on that section Kaaren. We love the updates. x
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Post by Margot's Corps de Ballet on May 18, 2016 16:52:11 GMT
Margot loves, Loves, LOVES cheap as chips frozen minced, yep, TRIPE!!! Today, she has really turned a corner on the food front. I bought a proscuitto hind leg, (the only bone that was assuredly uncooked as most appear to be deep fried). That went down very well indeed. More bulls appendages and the frozen green tripe. This is definitely her choice of nutrition and she scoffed the lot. This is the most I have seen her eat. The bowl has to be placed outside in the garden, about as far away from the house as is possible. I tried to encourage her to eat inside but she was having none of it and walked down the garden and pointedly stood next to her water bowl. Sheer relief that we have, by a process of elimination, worked out what Margot will eat. ....now I have to learn to deal with the *tripe-breath*
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2016 19:39:45 GMT
That's great progress, well done to you both (team effort). I would think you'd need to look at ensuring she gets a balanced diet too. Although I'm pretty clueless as to how you'd do that with little miss fussy pants!! If anyone has some ideas, throw them up here.
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Post by echo on May 19, 2016 10:05:17 GMT
That's great progress, well done to you both (team effort). I would think you'd need to look at ensuring she gets a balanced diet too. Although I'm pretty clueless as to how you'd do that with little miss fussy pants!! If anyone has some ideas, throw them up here. When she is settled with the tripe you could try adding some veg and fruit with a good vitamin/mineral supplement or seaweed. I did notice that Natural Instinct do a natural beef tripe mix which has some fruit and veg added, they say it's complete and balanced. It's best to add some offal really but if Margot wont stand for it the supplement should cover that.
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Post by rowlfsmum on May 19, 2016 13:08:06 GMT
Yay well done!
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