you will need to teach them to drink their mother's milk on the first two days until they managed to learn it.

Try getting A/D from the vet clinic to feed or if you want, can feed her boiled chicken since your puppy is still recovering.

Hope this helps

For large breed such as golden and labrador, we normally stick to puppy dog food until the dog is about 1 year and 6 months to 2 years old.

Then only we shall change to adult dog food.

Go and apply the license for your dog at the council in your area. Bring along the vaccination card too.

Then, get to the police station to file a report about the threatening statement made by your neighbor. So if *touchwood* that anything happened to your dog, the police report that you have made earlier will turn him as the first suspect.

If this neighbor of yours is beside your house, you can consider of fencing / building up the wall in between two of you so that he wont be able to provoke your dog to bark. This may cost some money though.

An alternative way would be to keep your dog inside the house when you know the timing that the neighbor would be in the house.

Hope this helps.

The license can be applied at your council there.

You will have to renew it one year once. It is RM 15 for each license.

Have you been deworming Brownie then?

When the dog is not being deworming routine, he / she may grow thin.

Furthermore, are there any changes of her diet / environment or her behavior?

Heartgard only deworms 3 type of worms for intestines and heartworm.

I would suggest you try to deworm her with pills according to her weight of 1 pill = 10kg.

Normally when you bring her for vaccination, the vet should have done deworming for her too.

Does she has any attractions of snack or other food instead of dog food?

Try getting pill from pet shop for deworming. 1 pill is for 10kg.

There are few types of deworming pills in the market, hence they comes in different color. If possible, try source for Drontal.

Deworming her will ensure that she will have a healthy growth.

Then canned food would be one of the cause that causes her to be picky; loss of appetite.

What you can do is, scoop one teaspoon and mix it with her kibbles thoroughly, feed to her and see if she takes it.

If she does, do that for every meal and then slowly reduce that one teaspoon to half and then to quarter, and next, only kibbles.

As she normally does not finish up her kibbles is because she is waiting for her one day of canned food with kibbles. Hence she rather eat less for the 6 days and eat more on the 7th day whereby she can have her canned food with kibbles.

Hi Kent,

You should mix the canned food with the kibbles and put it on top of the kibbles.

Once you mix it with kibbles, she has no choice but to eat the kibbles along.

If she doesnt take the pill, smash it and put it in the kibbles mix canned food then.

War against picky eater..

You can try this..

Soak the half of the amount of the dog food with the canned food, then mix with the dry dog food and feed to her..

See if she still can choose one by one or not..

Let's say normally you feed her one scoop of kibbles.

Take half a scoop, mix with canned food and then soak with water.

Once you see the kibbles are soften, mix with the other half scoop and feed to her

Just only saw your update about her appetite.

Great to hear that.

Hope she will grow fatter in no time.

I guess we should proceed with discussion through pm afterall, this thread is about retriever.

Well, there are lots controversial argument regarding this issue.

Some said it is better than dog food as it is prepared from fresh food compared to dog food which needed to be processed.

Some said it is an imbalance diet as it is difficult for us to judge whether the amount of nutrients provided from Barf is sufficient or vice versa.

Well, not all dogs can take raw too. My husky vomit when she eats raw meat.

The most important is your dog is being healthy with the diet that you are feeding; whether it is dog food or Barf.