Re: [pyrnet] skinny dog

[JGentzel@aol.com]

Getting weight on a pyr is always a problem  The only thing we have ever 
found that works for us short of stuffing the dog is something made locally 
called "Crumble".  A formulation by a canine nutritionist that comes in small 
baggie type bage that you can crumble on the regular food.  The dogs love it 
and unlike Satin balls it is fully cooked.  E-Coli is too dangerous for the 
raw hamburger in things like Satin balls and this is higher nutrient and not 
greasy at all. It is made in very small quanities by the people who 
formulate, but it really stimulates the appititite of the dog and they eat 
much better.  In fact you have to watch and make sure they do not get too 
fat.  It is expensive as things like this go at about $3.00 a pound, but you 
would only feed about 6 oz for slow weight gain or 8 oz or more for faster.  
Sick or stressed out dogs can eat more and the imporvement is amazing.  All 
natural products and it comes frozen.  Beef and cerial based.  Complete dog 
food.  Hard to get.  Most used by a select crowd in the show world for 
obvious reasons.  The coat literally blooms and they do not seem to go into 
the same drastic summer coat shed we generally see here in the deep south and 
rhey recover much more rapidly.

Joe