How to deal with the smell of farthing dogs in caravan, they usually do it when sleeping. But it wakes me up!

Johanna · Veteran Member

How to deal with the smell of farthing dogs in caravan, they usually do it when sleeping. But it wakes me up!

Johanna · Veteran Member

Another problem I forgot to say, one of my dogs does not eat raw chicken, I cook and he eats it.

The bouvier looking at you is the one who will not eat raw chicken. Thanks for your reply.

-- Edited by Johanna on Saturday 2nd of November 2013 08:26:58 PM

Rip and Rosie · Guru

Never feed them canned muck !!!
Ours eat chicken (wing tips, wings or drumsticks) as long as we have 2 days or more in one spot. Otherwise they get dry food.
Canned muck makes them fart, and they stink!

Johanna · Veteran Member

Never give I canned food, i cook rice with garlic, carrots and mince. When afternoon or if I go out they get a bone which make their poo easy to pick up. Very seldom i buy a big sausage cut it in pieces and freeze them in case I do not have rice ready for them. I always have dog bicuits as alternative if i run out or when traveling. Maybe your choice of dry food works, please tell me more.

dorian · Guru

Johanna wrote:
When afternoon or if I go out they get a bone...

To paraphrase Benny Hill, Bonez Meanz Fartz.

Johanna · Veteran Member

When camping I don't usually have bones, small fridge. But i like the pun. Thanks.

Ron and Shirley · Senior Member

Johanna wrote:
Never give I canned food, i cook rice with garlic, carrots and mince. When afternoon or if I go out they get a bone which make their poo easy to pick up. Very seldom i buy a big sausage cut it in pieces and freeze them in case I do not have rice ready for them. I always have dog bicuits as alternative if i run out or when traveling. Maybe your choice of dry food works, please tell me more.

I would suggest therein lies a good part of your problem.
If the dogs poo is not firm and easy to pick up every time, something is not right and possibly your dogs health is not what it should be.

As I mentioned on the other thread where you raised this matter, feed your dogs a premium dry dog food (eg Eukanuba,) only diet for a couple of weeks and see how you go. There are other premium brands of dog food (Google is your friend) however we have found many rural/outback stock feed merchants stock Eukanuba.

Johanna · Veteran Member

Thanks to everybody for their suggestions. I will try the dried Eukanuba, for a while. Is also good for travel.

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dayletoo · Newbie

Hi Johanna, only a newbie on the forum but plenty of experience with dog gas, i used to give one of my dogs charcoal tabs,might be worth a try.

cheers dayle

Kaid · Guru

maybe the garlic is the problem??????

Sheba · Guru

A friend of mine uses the Planet Ark Orange Power Air-freshener Sprays whenever her dog does this. Works quickly, and smells lovely. You can get either Lemon Myrtle and Orange, or Lime and Orange.

Might help 'till you get the problem under control.

Cheers,

Sheba.

pawsoz · Senior Member

Hi, My boys (whippets) are on Super coat (a mid price range dry food) my boys are on higher protein and fat content one and it works well for them, they also have red meat alternating with chicken wings added in the evening, I feed twice a day as I find that works well for travelling dogs, never too full. Charcoal tabs or charcoal based treat biscuits work very well for k9 'fluffs', but I would also go very easy on garlic, maybe cutting back to just 2 or 3 times a week if required. Do be care full not to let the dogs 'discover' any treasures to pick up and eat in camp sites. Annie

Rip and Rosie · Guru

why do you give them garlic?... and carrot?

Ron and Shirley · Senior Member

Johanna wrote:
Because vegies are good and garlic fights worms.
They love eating raw carrots as well. Bones will make their poo easier to handle, just 1 a day they get. And a piece of carrot. I think it

Many owners in the Pug Groups we mix with give their dogs raw carrot sticks as a treat/reward and quite a few add grated carrot, as a non-fattening filler, to their dogs evening meal. Our two are not at all keen on carrot, spoilt buggers, LOL.

I am curious, what do you mean by Bone that you give to your dogs daily?

-- Edited by Ron and Shirley on Wednesday 6th of November 2013 06:28:18 PM

Johanna · Veteran Member

Because vegies are good and garlic fights worms.

They love eating raw carrots as well. Bones will make their poo easier to handle, just 1 a day they get. And a piece of carrot. I think it

The dog lady · Guru

Sheba wrote:
A friend of mine uses the Planet Ark Orange Power Air-freshener Sprays whenever her dog does this. Works quickly, and smells lovely. You can get either Lemon Myrtle and Orange, or Lime and Orange.
Might help 'till you get the problem under control.
Cheers,
Sheba.

I have that spray too, and regardless of it's air-freshening qualities, it makes the dogs leave the van pronto, so that works for a while biggrin biggrin biggrin

Santa · Guru

A lot of whats being discussed is directly diet related, we've had dogs all of our married lives (along time) and have never been faced with this problem.

Reading through the thread and some of the stuff being fed to Rover I'm not at all surprised at the resulting flatulence. confuse

Johanna · Veteran Member

Thanks for the reply, but what do you feed your dogs if you or they don't have a problem with passing wind?

Lesley F · Veteran Member

Hi - I had a feeling dogs shouldn't eat garlic.

Here's what I found on the internet. Hope it helps.

Onions and Garlic

Onions and garlic in all forms -- powdered, raw, cooked, or dehydrated -- can destroy a dog's red blood cells, leading to anemia. That can happen even with the onion powder found in some baby food. An occasional small dose is probably OK. But just eating a large quantity once or eating smaller amounts regularly can cause poisoning. Symptoms of anemia include weakness, vomiting, little interest in food, dullness, and breathlessness.

Johanna · Veteran Member

My dogs food is usually cooked rice with carrots and garlic and mince.

Breakfast is rice meal as below

I put 7 full mugs rice in pot and cook.

Chop 4 0r5 cloves of garlic, and 3 or 4 carrots. Mix 1 kilogram of mince in and get about 14 meals . so not much garlic in a meal, maybe a pinch.

About 4 in the afternoon they get a nice big meaty bone and when I cook my own dinner they hang around

in the kitchen and get a piece of carrot.

Whatever i have left on my dinner plate they get in their bowls, usually just only a mouth full but they just love what I eat.

Lately I have stopped cooking because of bad shoulder, they now get good quality dogbiscuits instead.

After all that they still farth their hearts out.

They are very lively, active, love their food and are very sociable. Vet again commented on their teeth. Excellent.!

Only thing left is charcoal tablets. Will try that from next week. How much do I feed them? Please advice.

-- Edited by Johanna on Saturday 9th of November 2013 10:02:23 PM

turbopete · Senior Member

never give your dog GARLIC ,it will kill them

Santa · Guru

As well as causing flatulence in dogs it seems, as others have said, garlic in even small amounts is extremely toxic to dogs, something I was unaware of.

"While mass consumption of garlic puts pets at high risk, your pet can also become poisoned after chronic ingestion of small amounts of garlic over a period of time."

Don't feed em garlic.

http://www.petinsurance.com/healthzone/pet-articles/pet-health-toxins/Garlic-Toxicity-and-Pets.aspx

BruDi · Senior Member

We found out from friend's who found out the hard way that it is better not to give your dogs raw chicken, in fact raw meat of any kind. This was the advice from the vet. Their dog was very, very ill. The young vet at the practice thought he had some sort of muscle spasm and associated pain. The owner vet, when they saw him diagnosed it as toxoplasmosis. He had seen one case of it in dogs previously. Eventually the illness was cleared up but it is always in their system and requires immediate vet help.

While we were away recently they had to rush him to a vet again. Luckily the vet believed them when they explained what was wrong. Back on the antibiotics. The original vet, who is also our vet advised never to give any raw chicken of any sort as that is a great harbour of the disease and others. In fact he suggested keeping clear of all raw meat. We, and they, have done so ever since.

Di

Rip and Rosie · Guru

Dogs are by nature omnivores i.e like us they eat a bit of lots of stuff, however they are primarily carnivores.

By nature dogs eat meat, fresh meat, with bones and also offal.

Unless I'm very wrong here, dogs don't usually cook their food.

So, a variety of raw meat, with bones plus regular offal and some raw veges on occasion..... that's dog food.

Not stews, or human leftovers, nor canned muck, or the same thing day after day.

pawsoz · Senior Member

As Rip n Rosie said, dogs don't and never have done much cooking! Dogs are designed to eat raw meat, some veg, bits of fruit etc. Never cooked bones! Dogs do very well with some raw fish such as sardines or mackerel. In the diet, does wonders for coat condition. I give a row egg once a week too. Have to admit I do feed dry food as well as if I were in a situation where they had to be in kennels they would be fed dry food without a doubt. My boys have eaten raw chicken wings a couple of times a week all their lives as did the 4 Labradors in my life before the Wizzie Whippets! The real thing to watch out for with chicken is the temp. And not letting it get too defrosted as it were. Annie

dorian · Guru

Is it appropriate to compare raw refrigerated meat with raw freshly killed meat? Wouldn't cooked meat be preferable from that point of view?

msg · Guru

The mince from the supermarket has lots of preservatives. Sister's dog was getting fits until they took him off it. Vet recently told me to add some carrot to my Chihuahua's food to keep her anal glands operating properly. Just a teaspoon full in her food is sufficient. I would also feed her exclusively on dry food if she would eat it. Chicken cooked or raw makes her fart. So, its cooked mince with carrot and rice and peas most of the time.

Rip and Rosie · Guru

In the wild dogs eat a mixture of foods. Never the same thing day in and day out.... So exclusive feeding of anything isn't natural for them.
"Fresh" isn't cooked, freeze dry, preserved or frozen .... Fresh is fresh.

don't get me wrong.... My dogs fart, but not more than I do really.

Johanna · Veteran Member

Thank you all for the suggestions. Let me stew about it for a while and stop this subject before it gets smelly. biggrin smile confuse

Lpease no more replies, today I had 8 in my letterbox. still have to sort them. hmm

Johanna and two smellies.

Johanna · Veteran Member

Please no more mail about farthing dogs. Thank you Johanna