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Friday, July 5, 2013

The Recipe

Dog food

A few people asked about the OBP secret pug food recipe when I posted the lovely picture the 15 lbs of turkey we purchased recently. Before I share the recipe, let me add a little disclaimer. The boys have eaten a variation of this recipe for the last 10 years. It works for us, but this recipe might not work for your dog. If you would like to try this recipe or something similar consult with your vet before you make the switch. Also, making sure your pug has a balanced diet when feeding them homemade food is also very important. Commercial dog food is tested for that, but this recipe is not. Our approach to making sure the pugs' diet is balanced is variety. We swap out different parts of this recipe to change up the nutritional content. We also work closely with our vet and monitor the pugs' blood work regularly to make sure they are not nutrient deficient.

Without further ado, here is the recipe.

Ingredients

  • 99% Fat Free Ground Turkey (cooked)
  • 100% Pure Canned Pumpkin
  • A vegetable. One of the following:
    • Peas
    • Green Beans
    • Mixed Veggies
    • Spinach
    • Brussels Sprout (not a hit with Benny or Luna)
  • High fiber cereal or oatmeal
  • Yogurt or cottage cheese

Below is a rough estimate of the quantity of each ingredient included in one bowl. This has varied over the years and at times has varied from pug to pug.

  • 1/4 cup Ground Turkey
  • 1 tbsp of pumpkin
  • 2 tbsp of veggies (or 1 sprout cut up)
  • 1 tbsp of high fiber cereal
  • 1 tsp of yogurt or cottage cheese

The boys eat this meal twice a day and also get a mid day snack. Their mid day snack is either a tbsp of canned pumpkin with Wellness kibble or sometimes canned pumpkin with a scoop of turkey. We supplement with the Wellness kibble to hit any nutrients our recipe might have missed, but more importantly to keep their bodies used to the dry dog food in case a hurricane or some other event would leave us unable to make or keep their normal food.

Luna used to eat the same meals as the boys, but now she is on a special prescription food for her kidneys.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Happy Independence Day

Luna

Happy Independence Day! To celebrate, here are some independent pictures of Benjamin, Henry and Luna. wink

Enjoy the day!

Henry

Benjamin

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Cupid

Cupid

Last week, Cupid gave us our latest medical scare. On Monday, after we got home from work, Cupid threw up. We didn't think much of it at first because Cupid throws up from time to time. However, a short time later, Cupid threw up a few more times. Eventually, she got up a good sized hairball. After that, I thought that was the reason for her upset stomach and that all would be OK after that. However, things were far from OK after that. Cupid continued to throw up and started drooling. In addition, she kept laying down. It was almost like she couldn't hold her self up.

We decided to take Cupid to the emergency vet. My thinking was that Cupid might have eaten a gecko or some other bug that wasn't sitting well.

The emergency vet, did some blood work and Cupid's glucose levels were off the charts. This would be a good indication of Diabetes, but glucose levels can spike when a cat is stressed and Cupid was definitely stressed. The emergency vet gave Cupid fluids and some medicine to calm her stomach and told us to take her into our normal vet the next day for further testing.

We headed to the vet the next day, and our regular vet took a urine sample from Cupid to see if there was sugar in her urine. The only thing that would cause sugar in her urine would be Diabetes.

It took a few minutes for the test results, but it was confirmed that Cupid had suger in her urine. In addition, she also had bacteria in her urine. The bacteria is an indication that Cupid has been diabetic for some time now.

To control the diabetes, Cupid will need to be on insulin shots. We were given a tutorial on the insulin dosage and how to administer the shots.

We started Cupid's insulin shots the same day. Right now, Cupid gets shots twice a day. Lucky for us she is a champ at taking her shots. She doesn't wiggle and is fully cooperative.

There are a few more vet visits in Cupid's future. We need to do some follow-up testing to make sure that we have the right dosage of insulin to make sure Cupid's blood sugar levels are at a good point.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Caption This #290

Henry, Benjamin and Luna

Looking forward to your captions in the comments.

Monday, July 1, 2013

Luna Latest

Luna

We received the test results for Luna's airway wash and the biopsy for the two spots removed on her side. The two bumps removed from her side were benign. Yay!

The culture from the airway wash showed signs of bacteria. So we have started Luna on a round of antibiotics to see if we can clear that up. I don't think the antibiotics are going to cure Luna's cough but hopefully it will get us on the right track.

Later this week, Luna will go to the vet to have the stitches removed from her side. The funny thing is that it appears that Luna has almost as much hair growth on the patch that they had to shave for her biopsy as Benny does on the shaved spot on his back from the testing he had months ago. wink

Friday, June 28, 2013

Luna & Friends

Luna

From the looks of this picture you probably think that we posed Luna with the gargoyle statue. Nope! Sitting with this statue was all Luna's idea. She walked up to it and plopped down next to it just like she does when she hangs out with Henry.

Luna and Henry

Let's not tell Benny that the gargoyle statue may be ahead of him on Luna's preferred friends to hang out with list. wink

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Esophagus Sticks

Luna

The pugs were super excited when they received a package from Doggy Loot in the mail the other day.

We generally order bully sticks for the pugs whenever we see a good deal on Doggy Loot, but this time we thought we would get the pugs something new - Beef Esophagus Sticks. They sounded disgusting to me, so I was pretty sure that the pugs would LOVE them.

Luna

Benjamin loved his treat!

Luna

Henry might have enjoyed the esophagus sticks even more than Benny.

Luna

And Luna was on the fence. She didn't know what to think of them. In fact, she let her bone sit unattended and it wasn't long before Benny came by and ate hers too.

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