Giving dog biscuits

[hamwolf89]

This is me giving Yuiko a dog biscuit

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Well the camera ran out of batteries, but after the video is was trying to play tug-a-war with her and she never gave up. She loves her dog treat!

And this is me trying to give my DOG a dog biscuit.
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excuse the bad quality, this was made with the camera.

[Die Fledermaus]

Speaking of dog biscuits, you should see my male rats battle over a dog biscuit! I will have 8-9 noses poking though the cage bars, all squeaking and shoving and reaching. And then when they get it there is a tug-of-war as three grab it, and rats go tumbling! Hilarious stuff. But no one gets hurt. And they all get their biscuit.

[pinky]

I like it that Yuiko has a spot within her band on the left side. Cute!

[Lillith Rose]

a question about dog biscuits:

how old can you start giving dog biscuits to a dog? gypsy is about 9 months old or so and we give her those wavy bacons treats now but what do you reccomend for a good doggie treat

[Die Fledermaus]

All I know is that I see dog biscuits "for puppies" commonly sold in stores. They are of course quite small. I often get them for my rats. So I suppose biscuits are fine if the dog has teeth, so long as they are small.

Maybe Katie knows more. . .

[ladyjosephine]

Can you tell me what kind of dog gypsy is and why you want to give the treat?
To learn her stuff, commands?
Or for her teeth?

If it just for 'fun', try to stick to healthy treats. Stick to stuff with low fat,salt and sugar.
Biscuits and stuff like that isn't bad for puppies, but keep away from the smoked bones/treats/pig-ears. There's a lot of salt in smoked treats and a lot of young dogs get sick when they get something smoked.
Just try to keep it as natural as possible, that's better for the dog.

I don't really know what kind of treats you have in the US, so I can't give you a name

[Die Fledermaus]

Milk Bones and Alpo Snaps are very common.

www.milkbone.com/Default.aspx

hubpages.com/hub/Alpo_Variety_Snaps_Treats

[Hamsters82]

I'm not really sure when it's okay to give dog biscuits to puppies. I would call your local vet and ask or I would think when she has strong teeth it would be fine.

LJ is so right about the pig-ears. I hear they're horrible treats for dogs!

[ladyjosephine]

Hmm, I wouldn't give my dog Milkbones. Most adult dogs are lactose-intolerant(Do you write this the same as in dutch?).
A puppy has a high amount of Enzyme Lactase in there body, which breaks down the lactose in milk. But as de dog gets older this EL amount get's lower. some dogs can get a bad case of diarrhea when you give them milk or other dairy products, they can get very sick from lactose!
There is special Lactose-free milk for pets, But I think it's BS to give that to a dog. They only get spoiled, I once saw a Afghan who wouldn't drink water anymore. She only wanted milk or yoghurt with fruits :? It would drive me crazy to have a dog like that, but it's the owners own fault.

The same goes for a lot of other pets, A lot of them are Lactose intolerant.
Also for the rats, They are very intolerant about Lactose!

[Die Fledermaus]

>> Most adult dogs are lactose-intolerant (Do you write this the same as in Dutch?). <<

I am not sure what you mean, but that seems correct to me.

LOL There is little milk in Milk Bones! I gave links so people could check the ingredients.

Here is the list of ingredients: wheat flour, wheat bran, beef meal and beef bone meal, milk, wheat germ, feef fat preserved with tocopherols, salt, dicalcium phosphate, natural flavor, calcium carbonate, brewers dried yeast, malted barley flour, vitamins (choline chloride dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (vitamin e), vitamin a acetate, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, vitamin b12 supplement, d-activated animal sterol (source of vitamin d3)), sodium metabisulfite (dough conditioner), minerals (zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, ethylenediamine dihydriodide (source of iodine)).

My rats never had diarrhea. The last critter here who had it was Princess, a beloved hamster, who may have been given too much lettuce by me. But she went to a vet anyway for antibiotics in case it was Wet Tail She recovered.

At the famous Rat Temple - have you seen it? - in India they often feed the rats milk in bowls.
They like it and there are no apparent problems.

RAT TEMPLE LINK

[ladyjosephine]

I know the rat-temple, Karni Mata. And you can't compare them to fancy rats. Wild rats are very different, it's said they have bigger organs and they are can get imune.

Over here the black rat and brown rat population is growing because they're getting imune for rat-poison, Maybe the same happend with the lactose in the temple of Karni Mata?

Well, I think everybody should decide themselves what they give to there animals. I'll never give them milk with lactose, the only milk the rats sometimes get is Catmilk.

[Die Fledermaus]

Catmilk comes from cats??

So, what do you think of the ingredients in Milk Bones?

[Lillith Rose]

gypsy is a mix breed puppy .
and we give her treats to reinforce good behavior and just to have special things for her once in awhile. she is not being trained to be bad or anything that is remotely close to that but i think that a treat every now and again is good for a animal and reassures them that they can trust you and that you love them no matter what they do..

its ok that you cant reccommend a brand name dog biscuit , i just was wondering how soon they could have them.