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Ordering a 500ml bottle of this to see if it puts the gleam back in donkey dog's coat (it's shiny and healthy atm, but has lost a little of it's deep gloss and softness since neutering. Yes, I may be attempting to fix that which cannot be fixed. I know. Shoo :p) as well as the benefits for joints in a larger dog. I figure might as well start to care for his joints early, than wait until he's older and stiff :)

Anyways! My question is, for those here that use it, how much would you give per day to a dog around 37-40k? I haven't weighed him a couple of months but he's definitely in the 'donkey size' category. One website states about 3 teaspoons (surely it'd be easier in that case to use table spoons? Or am I just being neurotic now?) another says to 'drizzle' it. Drizzle is a slap dash measurement used for putting extra virgin olive oil on salads darn it. Not a measurement of how much oil to pump into your dog per day :mad: He has the majority of his allowance in the evening, with a small token breakfast, if that helps (I'm leaning towards putting it in the evening meal).

Any idea how long a 500ml bottle lasts for a dog this size? I see they do 3ltr boxes on the website, so might get that the next time round if he takes to it.

On an unrelated note he's blowing his coat at the moment, and despite being quite short coated, requires daily sessions of 'remove the creamy white knicker fluff'. The car park looks like a ritual ground for vegetarian satanists that just shear sheep. Not relevant, since his drop in coat condition precedes this. Just thought I'd mention it. I like the idea of 4 fairly pointless paragraphs on the subject of salmon oil. And coats. And sheep. :)
 
I hear oily fish is just as good for joints/coat and loads cheaper (very obsessed forum I frequent) so my creatures get pilchards in tomato sauce quite often. They're very shiny! they like whole mackerel too: Bear inhales! :D

I saw a mini shedding blade in Pets at Home, no sure if that would be any good for a dog's coat:confused:.

I like sheep, there are 4 new lambs at the yard. Brig likes them too but he's not allowed to eat them. That would be wrong and taking raw feeding too far. The frog was bad enough. Euw.
 
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I did consider just subbing a meal with oily fish a couple of times a week, it makes such sense. However I'm not only short on freezer space but cupboard space too. I also have a habit of forgetting half the stuff I was meant to pick up when I shop! So an oil seemed a good alternative :)

I'm not sure about shedding blades, not had a GSD before so unsure if they would damage the coat. At the moment I'm using a slicker and a pin brush with soft bristles beneath the rounded pins. Seems to work ok, and the slicker gets plenty of undercoat out. I think I'm just being paranoid really :rolleyes: When I was little I had to groom my pony to perfection before a short hack as 'presentation reflects the care and attention you give to your ponies management and care'. :p I've since been reliably informed this is not necessarily true, and the odd wee stain can be forgiven! But it sticks with you, like my parents' Roman Catholic guilt* :p

I also like sheep. I got to bottle feed the cripple once. I called him 'Screwy Legs'. He died eventually. The farmer didn't want to tell me what had happened in case I was devastated (I was about 11) so in the end I had to go and ask just to be sure I wasn't needed for Screwy Legs' feeding duty in the evening. Men and time management, pfffft :p





*This is a lie. My parents, whilst being brought up Roman Catholic (and in my ma's case, educated by mad Nuns that find their way onto window ledges), suffer absolutely no guilt whatsoever. They lead a happy, sinful, guilt-free life. I abused their past in order to make a point. I'd be sorry, but I lead a happy, sinful, guilt-free life too.
 
Mine have pilchards or similar a couple of times a week. In the dim and distant past when I was showing the dogs were fed on raw tripe, with the occasional spoonful of sunflower oil, and their coats were fine, so sunflower oil would probably be just as good.
You are best not to use a shedding blade, you don't want to break the top coat just get out the woolly undercoat, and of course defluff his knickers (its wonderful stuff that wool isn't it!). I have a rake I bought at the Sieger show years ago which is great, it is very similar to the one in this link.
http://www.groomers-online.com/news/dog-undercoat-rake/293/

As for sheep, I like them with mint sauce. :p
 
Pix, you are a fortunate child! My Catholic upbringing ensures I feel guilty about everything including dead frogs. It's a trauma. One time, I freed a mouse rather brutally from the lawn mower and it had broken legs but I was so guilty I let it drag off rather than put it out of its misery.:( and I made the OH chop off a gudgeon's head with the secateurs (it was dying) cos I couldn't do it. :o He's a country boy and good at killing stuff (squirrels, paralysed frogs etc)

The amount of lambs doubled on Sunday so there are now four, all boys, thank God, cos the YO is a t**t and won't get the two rams cut so there are interbred sheep galore but no screwy legs or even two headed monstrosities.

I though a shedding blade would be harsh. And an someone explain why Brig's guard hair has grown back in sort of bristly after he was clipped last year? It feels weird:(
 
Actual oily fish is grand and you can get unbranded salmon oil which I imagine is cheaper - there are dogs at our club on it and they look like seals.

I also use a rake in one hand and a wire curry comb type brush in the other.
I *do* have a Furminator but it *does* break GSD coat. No huge deal if you're not showing and want to get all that hair the feck out of there.
I was actually doing a bit of 'plucking' this morning and doing my bit for the nesting bird population :p
 
Cheers MM, will have a look at getting a rake. I was going to get a larger slicker so may get both and go at him with both hands :D

CT- Sorry but your inability to end the suffering of the dying wildlife in your area did make me grin :p Maybe you should take up a really awful hobby, like becoming a mime artist, and do it in public. Then all your guilt is used up on making people endure mime.

This sheep themed horror flick might put your YO off keeping sheep. Christmas/birthday present maybe? :p

I've done nowt but help the bird population for 3 days now CC :( I should have thought ahead and saved it all to make hand knit jumpers with for ebay purposes. I'm sure nobody would think to ask where the wool was sourced... :D
 
I was pleased with the effects of salmon oil, cleared up my dogs dry skin & put nice shine on the coat. Not sure what the big fish4dogs oil container is like but i didn't like the bottles as i found it hard to pour out without getting stinky oil everywhere and had used Kronch oil in a pump dispenser previously which was much easier, it was about 3 pumps so i just opted for 3 teaspoons of fish4dogs, though i opted to introduce it slowly in case it gave an upset bum. I don't use it at the moment as i'm too poor for extra's and doglet has fish4dogs food which has some in anyway.
 
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