Yum! Rebecca Bate
Sent from my iPad On Apr 11, 2012, at 9:43 PM, "Deanna Corey" <[email protected]> wrote: > I keep the sprouts rotating in sprouting trays...that stack. I have two Mason > jars I use to soak and rinse the first night...they have strainer type > lids...I keep two soaking and then have four trays...after soaking and > rinsing for 24 hours, I spread out in the trays and rotate those to > eat...some seeds grow slower than others. It takes up about 1 sq. foot of > counter space but about 1 foot tall...that keeps us in sprouts > continuously...my parrots get some too! > > From: Joan Croft > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 6:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Chihuahuas] NCR but still very sweet > > > You have all of this down to a science. > > Do the sprouts grow really fast? You love them so you either have all your > counters full or they grow pretty fast. Sounds like maybe something that > would survive for me. I don’t have a green thumb. > > Dolly & Desi don’t get any table food. One day I dropped a piece of lettuce > and he snapped it up. So for about two months after that he would sit below > the table just waiting. He made me nervous a few times and I dropped a piece > for him. I tried to give a piece to Dolly, but she didn’t want it – she is a > picky eater…and with her food she just picks at it for a little while, eats > some of it, then lays in her bed in her area until I come over. I think she > doesn’t want to eat anymore, but she wants me to WATCH her eat. I am not > really sure how that came about, but possibly because there was a time when > she wouldn’t finish the food in her bowl, but when she came in from going > potty, she got a treat. She learned that from when Mandy is over here. I > was a softie in those days, but one day I decided that she only would get > treats after she finished her food in the bowl. So when she did, I would > praise her and then give her a ‘just veggin’ Old Mother Hubbard treat. She > will always bark to let me know she finished her food, and then will just sit > there staring at me until I give her the treat. > > For a very long time now, Dolly will save one of the treats that I give her > when I go out. Desi eats all of his probably before I can pick up my purse. > Yesterday I came home and Dolly was all excited to see me. I don’t know why, > but when I told her that she was a very good girl, she jumped down and was > smelling all over to find that cookie that she not only saved, but hid…I have > Desi’s area next to hers and she was probably afraid he would come and get > it. But in my head, I put the ‘praise’ and then Dolly finding that cookie. > I think she looks at it as a treat for being good and watching my house. > > Other than that, they are content with what they eat. Their poops are very > small compared to other Chihuahuas their size in the neighborhood. They get > very few treats, and they are fine with that – then they know that they are > truly a treat and not something that they are entitled to. I have heard many > on the groups who have the little treat time and if there are multiple kinds > of treats, they all have the time or circumstance attached. (I do too…and if > I give them the wrong treat at a certain time…Dolly will let me know) > > <image001.gif> > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Deanna Corey > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] NCR but still very sweet > > > > > Hi Joan, > > They do love a good yam chew...I make them in my dehydrator. And they LOVE > fresh green beans and peas for treats. Cooked carrots are also a fun snack. > But usually all fruits and veggies are given to them as a treat...when I’m > eating them! it seems I like to have an apple a day...they always each get a > little piece of that for fun! No other supplements except maybe a squirt of > krill or salmon oil every now and then... > > > I sprout for me...in trays on my counter...and I have to say the Chis go > CRAZY for sprouts...the other guys could care less but both Myrtle and Mouse > LOVE them...so I share my sprouts with them too. > > > For training treats I like to give them the freeze dried lamb lung, or dried > liver...I also make them chicken jerky too ... No grains or flours ever!!!! > > > From: Joan Croft > > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:09 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [Chihuahuas] NCR but still very sweet > > > > > Do you supplement the raw with fruits/veggies, and some other sort of > vitamin, or is the meat the whole thing? > > And, just wondering, do your dogs get normal dog treats – or they get raw > treats? (sorry…just wondering!) > > <image001.gif> > > _ > >
