Hi Kay, After reading your post, I have a few comments to make. 1. I think you are making reference to lunch meats like balogna and mock chicken being bad for you. Actually, no-one should eat that garbage. But the roasted whole meats are perfectly acceptable sources of protien for human, they are low in fat, preservatives, sodium, additives and 'questionable meat' (for instance: hotdogs claim to be all beef or all meat, that doesn't neccessarily equate to breast meat or thigh meat, it means skin, hair, organs, cartilage or any other part of an animal) The point of the lunch meat post was to make suggestions to get this dog to eat something....not to imply that this dog should be eating lunch meat on a regular basis. It is also my thinking that lunch meat, is also something most likely in the refrigerator of many of us and therefor available readily in a pinch. I liken the lunch meat advice to the corn syrup advice to keep on hand for hypoglycemic and diabetic dogs. Feeding our pets liquid invert sugar is not good for them, but in a pinch it's perfectly acceptable.
2. Writing in caps to stress importance is not a good idea. lets take a moment here to establish that when you write in caps; as I assume you are not familiar, the intention is yelling. This is well established ettiquite on the web and chat groups. Not to mention it can be insulting to readers. If you are looking to define something as important without having to change your text colour, you can use underlining, or you can change to a larger font for those important notes. Also, on a final note, I do not find the 'i've been a breeder for x number of years...' in any way comforting, more to the point, I find it an empty statement of self importance when it is followed by definitive plans of action, which imply that any advice offered by others, is wrong or poor. A Quantification of life experience is not the only valuable way of attaining knowledge and information on an animal, any more than saying I have 6 kids so I know everything there is to know about kids..... the point is, the diligent and intellegent owner of one or two chis can be every bit and in some cases more knowledgeable than a breeder who pumps out pups and sends them off into the world to the highest bidder. (Not implying that you engage in this practice, I am just trying to stress the point) this is a group of good hearted owners and lovers of our chis and I value the input of all members, with the understanding that this is a forum for offering advice and sharing ideas and strategies. If we havn't the sense to know when we ought to be consulting the vet.... then we certainly have bigger problems than lunch meat don't we!! DD. --- In [email protected], "Kay Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Lacey" <laceyduthu@> wrote: > > > > Just want to say that my first response was to take Sparky back to > > the vet. I do agree with Jen though in that lots of dogs will want > > to eat lunch meat. So maybe Sparky would be willing to try it. > > ~Lacey > > Lacey, > Let's think about this a bit.... Lunch meat is not good for humans, > One of the first words out of a Doctors mouths for someone with a > heart condition, high blood pressure, or even my daughters when they > are expecting is no lunch meat, no cigarettes, no alachol. I'm not > going into what all is wrong with lunch mean, just google it and read > the ingredients. That should spoil your applitate. LOL > > Now if it's not good for us, it would not be good for a sick puppy > that already can not hold something down. Oh yes most dog's love it, > even mine, but I'm thinking very sick puppy. Wouldn't some cooked > ground up chicken without a lot of seasonings be better for a sick > puppy, or even strained baby meat, chicken or even better lamb, if > it's just a matter of getting food into it. Not as a regular diet. > > I'm afraid this pup was already very sick when it went to it's new > owner. Car sickness in even tiny pups passes in a couple hours, but > this problem is beyond that. So at this point I think we all need to > be praying for Sam and Sparky and praying hard. > > I was accused of sending in a Panic post..... No that was not a > panic post, it was in CAPS to get attention. If I ever send in a Panic > post it will be done in HTML from my personal email in Bold, Red and > Large. > > I would hope and pray that in the case of a sick, hurt or any other > emergency situation, that the first response from every member of any > group would be to see the Vet immediately. Then for discussion of > what's going on, modify the subject line so the person in need of > quick advice does not have to wade through 20 posts to get the > information he/she needs. > > I thought it pretty clear that this new owner is not overly > experienced with a tiny chi pup, nor the sickness she found her self > facing. I think overall as a group we failed her, a few came through, > but I do believe that we could do better then we did. I hope that > without getting all in a huff and slinging dog poo back and forth that > we can learn a lesson here and do better next time. > > I didn't mean to insult anyone or step on toes. I simply had to do > what seemed necessary and in a quick mannor. If I did insult anyone > I am sorry. > > So let's pray that we have a happy ending to this story. > Kay > " Lets talk about our wonderful little friends! Join today! " Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chihuahuas/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
