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oluomoadebayo: Not at the moment. What is your budget i might help you to get one.

Do you import proven adult dogs too? Would they be more expensive? How much? Should we create a new thread to discuss this?

The last time the dog was frustrated it was due to food, so maybe we can use that. When the dog is hungry, chain the dog and place his food (raw chicken lap) just beyond his reach. Then have the stranger come around, making noise, etc. Then have the stranger take the chicken and start taunting the dog with it. Bringing it close to him, taking it away and laughing, etc. Or you could fry the chicken lap and have the stranger eat it in his presence while making fun of the dog. The moment the dog barks the stranger should drop the chicken and run away.

Jcob: So i tried this method this afternoon while I hid very close to the dog. Immediately the stranger stranger started hitting the gate roughly, drake stood up with all ears up. The gate was banged for 5 minutes while he maintained his posture. At the end, the stranger came in and went close to him . . . . . .stranger was afraid to move very close because of the size of the dog. But no single sound/bark! Can a dog be dumb?

Heh this is funny! Has he met the stranger before? Was he chained down? Did he back away from the stranger slightly as he was approached?

Please post pictures of the pups and pictures of the parents and your selling price. Thanks.

himkers: Seun, am suggesting that you create a subsection in the Pets Section here. It will serve as Ads section for buying and selling of pets and other pet related transactions. The Pet section is not a bit arranged. Its an opinion though

We feel that it may be premature to split the section for now. This is from intuition based on our years of experience in managing the forum.

begunatoye: As a vet

Please help me out here, sir: https://www.nairaland.com/1824200/dogs-ear-discomfort-making-me Thank you so much in advance.

I must also point that raw feeding does not only include feeding dogs raw meat and bones alone, it also includes feeding vegetables, fruit, raw eggs and milk or yogurt to dogs.

There are two ways to feed raw. There's the BARF model which is what you have described, and the prey model which seems to make more sense to me and also requires less effort. It postulates that dogs do not need vegetables. That they can satisfy their vitamin requirements by eating all the organs of prey animals. They only need veggies (grass, weeds) when they have upset stomachs and want to induce vomiting.

Raw feeding is expensive for owners of large dogs

Oluomoadebayo has figured out how to feed raw cheaply. But yeah, it's generally more expensive. Rice and cooked fish is more affordable.

fraught with exposure of dogs and owners to bacterial infection (salmonella, Ecoli)

But sir, dogs eat poop. They also like to bury their bones in the ground and then eat them when they get ripe i.e. overrun with bacteria. And these practices rarely hurt them. This makes me feel that most dogs will be fine with raw food that was meant for human consumption.

and risk of dog choking on bones (not funny when your dog can't bark or eat cos of bones lodged in the throat.)

Raw feeders say that raw bones are softer than cooked bones and hence less likely to cause issues. My experience confirms this. Yesterday I gave my dog a cooked chicken bone. This is a dog that has devoured many whole chickens. And he found it very difficult to crunch the bone. Realising the danger, I retrieved the bone and threw it away. Most dog owners do give their dogs cooked bones from time to time, and only occasionally do they have intestinal obstructions. Raw bones, being softer, should be less likely to cause problems to dogs. Raw feeders only needs to avoid bones that are most likely to be problematic e.g. bones that are too hard to crack or too small to chew properly.

A dog fed only meat will suffer from nutritional imbalance hence the pertinent need for supplementation.

I agree. Muscle meat doesn't contain all the nutrition they need. That's why the prey model recommends 10% organs and 10% bone too.

If you want to switch your dog's diet to raw diet, do it gradually and observe your dog's response. Raw feeding has it advantages though, hence, each owner should weigh the pros and cons before deciding.

Many raw feeders believe mixing raw food with other food is dangerous because they don't digest the same way. It leads to upset stomachs which would be blamed on the raw food. They recommend feeding the dog a half ration of his normal food one day (so his stomach will be almost empty by the next day) & then feeding the dog a half ration of raw food the next day (to give the digestive system time to adapt).

Jcob: Drake is somehow choosy when it comes to feeding. He prefers raw food like chicken and fish.

Dogs can be choosy when they know they have options. My dog rejected his morning fish day before yesterday, so I just waited for him to get over it. He reluctantly ate it in the evening, day before yesterday. By yesterday when I brought his next titus in, he was excited over it.

Security wise, I love his alertness but my big problem remains . . . .this dog no dey bark!

You can hire a stranger to act as a bad guy and provoke the dog in order to encourage him to bark. This is called "agitation" and it's important for security training. Some silly children have been doing this for me free of charge. They bang our gate just to annoy my dog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T0FMhh1LBA

Inkredible: Of recent, the way u question peoples originality is somehow rude. I have been a constant Ghost reader on pet section n I urge you to show respect to these people. No be for only here. Even outside NL. Thank you.

Apitch: Supported!!! Don't know about outside NL but oga abeg show some respect

I'm sorry bros. I hereby apologize for challenging himkers' faboolous tale disrespectfully. Who are the other people I questioned, though?

If you can't afford to buy a GSD, get a small local dog and treat it well. Cut your coat according to your size. If you love dogs, treat them well.

vizboy: Pls Seun I don't knw if it just me but I don't know what your name is still doing close to that disclaimer we already know u are the owner of the forum, can you remove it please it so 1980, and please we need a dislike button

Thanks for the suggestions. I will surely think about them and implement them if it's right to do so.

Assuming this story is true, then it's none of your business. The story seems contrived. If we were to question you, it would fall apart.

jamp: oga seun, tell us your location, poultry farmers around will contact you.

Ota, Ogun State.

Thank you all for your valuable advice, which I really appreciate. We will work hard to implement the ideas that will make Nairaland better.

What do they weigh?

How heavy are your 2 to 4 month old rabbits?

@oluomoadebayo: Maybe this guy can help? https://www.nairaland.com/1836943/what-need-know-before-importing#25120468

I need a sample of what you want. You can post it on this thread so others can comment.

timbros: @Seun, below is the dog. I don't know the age but I know its not a puppy.

Coldplay007: LOL.. see as everybody disappear from thread when they saw the 'GSD'..
OP this is not a GSD, this is a pure unadulterated bingo aka African mongrel...

It may not be 100% pure, but that doesn't matter. What matters is whether you like the dog as it is or not. Its coat is similar to that of pure brindle GSDs, but short, which makes it easy to keep it clean. It seems small, but smaller dogs cost less to feed well, and bark just as loud. If you don't want to adopt her, you can help your in-law to advertise the dog on Nairaland for a reasonable price, so it will go to a good home.

FKO1: I AM GUESSING THEY ARE FOR YOUR DOGS ? OGA SEUN THESE DAYS YOU MAKE ME WONDER

Yeah, my dog. I can get whole chicken flesh and chicken laps/wings quite cheap but without the offal it's not a balanced diet for my dog. Help!

Please tell me how to get the internal organs and entrails that are removed from slaughtered chickens while they are being prepared for sale.

I'd also like to have an estimate of how much the poultry offal (organs) will cost per chicken and/or per kilogram, and any other useful info.

Thanks!

Pls send your evidence of payment to the given address, sir. I will process your payment as soon as I can. Apologies for the delay.

ocheejemb: I played around with CSS using Stylebot on Google Chrome on voila. I will continue to play around with it anyways, till I get a Nairaland theme i like :-D

Interesting. Pls keep me update on the development of your theme and let's see what it looks like on mobile as well.

kuzee: Guys where can i get GSD, i so much love that Dog. How much does it cost..

Apparently, 30k to 100k depending on purity and age. Impure ones are usually smaller and thus require less food.

i desire to have one, both male and female

The more dogs you have, the less you can take care of them. Also, if you have both male and female, you won't be able to control when the female gets pregnant. The male will be knocking her up all the time. Just get one good dog and try to take very good care of it.

If you don't have any money to buy a dog, how will you feed and take care of the dog properly, especially if it's not a local dog?

sisiafrika: if there must be holy spirit then evil spirit must exist to make up the balance.

Since there are no evil spirits, this is a strong argument for atheism. Well done, bro!

Jcob: My dog failed to eat indomie waste so I got a kilo of sha wa for him this morning. He ate 2 out of 4 without my help in cutting the fish. Guess the 2 is enough for him today.

Uncooked Shawa contains an Enzyme called Thiaminase that destroys vitamin B1. Feeding it regularly will cause beriberi. You should cook it (some minutes in the microwave) or give the dog a Vitamin B1 supplement or avoid feeding him raw Shawa fish more than 1 day per week.

I've switched my dog to raw Titus fish. It is an almost balanced diet; it contains all organs which provide vitamins. I was going to start feeding him raw chicken and 10 - 15% raw cow organs but yesterday, after eating some raw liver, my dog was reluctant to eat his 1/2 chicken even after I deboned it for him (the commonly sold chicken has far too much bone) so in anger I decided I won't waste too much time on the ungrateful dog's food. Titus fish is probably not a fully balanced diet, though, because it's a fish and wolves/dogs don't eat fish. It's nutrient composition is probably a bit different from that of traditional wolf prey (herbivorous mammals). I will feed my dog with chicken bones (for calcium and dental health) regularly and cow organs (especially liver, for vitamins that may be low in Titus fish) occasionally.

I will give my dog two opportunities to eat every day. During each one, I will allow the dog to eat as much Titus fish as he wants. I will cut slices and give each one to him after he obeys a command, until he stops eating, & then the "kitchen" will be closed for 12 hours.

goodtalk: Oga Seun.

Kindly take a second look, i still cant access my previous thread on google it keeps displaying error message. Please assist.

Regards.

its too late sir.

jeff1607: Y do dogs move in circles before a leak or poo

To find the perfect spot.

We are aware of the glitch... it was due to some mistakes made during a routine micro-upgrading of the forum.

ocheejemb: My pet peeve right now is the FB/LK/ MT/ FG etc menu items at the top of the page which do not convey any information to a naive user.

The abbreviated links are only shown when there is no new content on the pages they point to. You can see what they mean by hovering.