I took our cavalier to the vet for weight gain early this year (she is 2yrs and not desexed) and all they suggested was I up her advance dry dog food and cut out her chicken necks. She said chicken necks were full of water and although good for her teeth they would do nothing for her weight gain. It took several months for her condition to improve but finally now she looks better then ever. Her coat is also twice as thick as it ever has been. I've always struggled to get her to have a lovely cavie coat but finally she does. All she gets now is a few kitchen scraps, she has access to advance all the time I don't let her bowl get empty (have to go look at the bag but its for thinner dogs) and about every week she gets a few bones. She gets our chop bones which are a favourate to chew on and I go to the butcher and get dog bones. There is almost always a bone in the yard although after the first day there is no meat on it just bone. She now looks a million dollars finally.
Is she desexed? That often fattens them up. We haven't desexed our girl.
Definately the working dog bikkies work. We have a white bull arab that FREEZES her butt off & drops away drastically in cool weather & the working dog bikkies keep the weight on pretty well.
I feed 'Cobber Working Dog' or if they start putting a little too much on drop them back to 'Cobber country dog'.
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