My Dogs!!!!

  Ten years ago after the kids were gone to some degree we got our first dog Cody, she's a Black Lab/Springer Spaniel.
Cody has been the sweetest dog, a tad spoiled but a good hunter and companion.
 Also she got to be a very big dog almost 120 pounds and having a hard time getting around, hmmmm wonder why?????
 Then 3 years later we got a puppy Dakota, he was a mutt also, Black Lab/ Aussie Shepard, with lots of ticking and color.  Cody wasn't too charmed but she got over it and likes him.  Then along came Abbey a year or so after Dakota, a Golden Retriever, she was 18 months old and had a very hard life so we call her our rescue, very thin and scared.
I thought I had a home for her but of course that fell thru so she's ours!!!!  So she took some work but she is a wonderful addition to our pack.  Cody is not that fond of her so Dakota has to play with both of them, separately of course.

So all has gone well till the 2 youngest ones turned 5 years old and boy were we in trouble, that could be a book, but we hired a behaviorist and got things in order, they have no idea how close all three were headed for the pound!!!!  And by this time they were all very heavy dogs and needed a diet!!!

After a trip to the vet she told me dogs really need  a protein based diet so I started cooking for them.
 I fill up a crock pot once a week with pork or chicken or some meat that is around $1.00 a pound 2 to 5 lbs., 5 or 6 big carrots, any left over veggies or stuff from the frig and cook that up all day or overnight, add some rice and they are set to go
  Each dog gets cup of dry food and a cup of Hot Lunch twice a day.

The results.... very little begging, no more trying to eat the dry wall or  cruising the counters on our back legs, the shedding is reduced  and all three 100 lb. plus dogs are between 75 and 95 lbs.  And the old girl is not limping.  So for not much effort these guys are in the best health so far!!!!

And to make our walks alot easier for me, as I walk all three of them, I use gentle leaders and they work great.
We have to walk in areas with no squirrels and rabbits as then I am not upright.  This is hard to find in our neighborhood so thank goodness for the gentle leaders!!!

Happy Tails!!!!!