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    Default What can happened when you put your dogs on a diet.

    Vet says your dogs are overweight so they have to go on a diet,

    So we do that and the dogs lose weight but are increasingly ravenous as all get out and will have a go at anything.

    Last night at about 7:30 pm when I called the dogs for dinner only one came and when I found the other it was hiding under a chair and had to drag it out. She was behaving very lethargic and I noticed she a cloudy eye with pus like stuff starting to ooze out of it.

    So off to the emergency vet where they find a small puncture in the cornea so plus painkiller and antibiotic cream and a $300 payment we got home 3 hours later.

    Vet says it could have been a cat scratch but when any cats come into the yard the dogs usually stay well clear and set up ballistic round of barking that usually scare any cats away.

    When we got home I think we found the problem. One of the big plastic bags of dog food we had bought recently had a dog snout size hole in it. I reckon said dog had gnawed a small hole in the plastic and then forced her nose in and eaten the food. As the level went down she has stuck her snout in further and the rough plastic edge of the bag has caught her eye.

    This is also consistent with the 100% increase in sloppy doosdos on the back lawn - I where all the extras had come from.

    She's pretty frisky this morning and came running quickly for her brekky so it seems she's on the mend.

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    Poor thing, glad she seems to be recovering! My cat is currently on a diet as well, she is very shouty at the moment hahaha

    Got to be done though, she's missing a back leg so she's an indoor cat most of the time, just can't get the exercise a normal cat would.

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    Dogs will over eat if there is more than one in a household. We had one dog die and when that happened the remaining one ate less and lost a lot of weight because he was no longer in a competition to deprive the other dog of food.
    CHRIS

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Parks View Post
    Dogs will over eat if there is more than one in a household. We had one dog die and when that happened the remaining one ate less and lost a lot of weight because he was no longer in a competition to deprive the other dog of food.
    I agree completion can be a problem.

    The younger dog is boss cocky and always moves her full bowl away from the other dog to make sure the older dog is not going to take any. In doing so she slops dog food all over the kitchen floor so we now place the bowls about 3 metres apart.
    When 3-4 small bones or biscuits are put on the ground, boss dog grabs them all and growls at the other dog. If placed into the mouths of each dog they won't fight each other for them.
    The older dog is far less competitive but heaps more sneakier. She was the one who ate a 1/3rd of a Xmas ham off the bone on a kitchen bench.

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