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  • cavowner
    • Puppy
    cavowner

    Posted : 5/30/2006 7:47:11 PM

    My boy Tai (later CDX) with a couple of baby Springers, he always loved the babies but beat a hasty retreat if mum came back.
  • willowchow
    • Gold Top Dog
    willowchow

    Posted : 5/31/2006 1:49:03 AM

    Oh, my God!  Look at them, look at that blue boy!  Willow makes the same face when she's lying like that. 
  • Pam
    • Gold Top Dog
    Pam

    Posted : 5/31/2006 9:07:52 AM

    I just love all those chowchows pics !  That Willow is so beautiful!
     
    Anyway, I think cats need large amounts of Taurine and dogs do not and that is what the problem might be.
     
    My dog always made a stop by the cats dish and gobbled all the dry food before I could stop her, or the wet food.  LOL   And the dogs  LOVE sardines packed in oil or anything.  The days they get sardines, they don't get fish oil.
  • willowchow
    • Gold Top Dog
    willowchow

    Posted : 5/31/2006 9:36:48 AM

    Thank you hollysmom!  She's mommy's baby. 
     
    Well, I've decided on a compromise with the cat food, she'll be allowed a spoonful or two a couple of times a week, but it's not going to be an everyday thing.
  • Nik
    • Bronze
    Nik

    Posted : 5/31/2006 9:39:31 AM

    ORIGINAL: willowchow

    Becca--That's the one I have, the blended tuna.  It's tuna, water, tapioca (why??), [end quote]

    The tapioca is used to make it all stick together... They have to form it up somehow and tapioca is better than potato.. Just my opinion.

    I'd think a little cat food would be ok for Willow, we all have our weaknesses :)
  • willowchow
    • Gold Top Dog
    willowchow

    Posted : 5/31/2006 9:45:02 AM

    Thank you applejack.  Is tapioca sweet, she's got a HUGE sweet tooth and I'm wondering what her big attraction to this is.  She's had tuna before and wasn't all that thrilled so I'm curious. 
  • Pam
    • Gold Top Dog
    Pam

    Posted : 5/31/2006 12:53:10 PM

    Tapioca was a weekly staple while I was growing up.  I only made it myself for the first time last year.  I think I added sugar and vanilla and milk to cook it, these lttle round balls.  So even if they made it sugarless, it may be a dairy product that Willow is liking.
  • willowchow
    • Gold Top Dog
    willowchow

    Posted : 5/31/2006 3:15:43 PM

    Oh, yes, she loves dairy!
  • beth82
    • Gold Top Dog
    beth82

    Posted : 5/31/2006 8:13:51 PM

    I think what's in the cat food is probably just tapioca starch, without the milk and sugar added.  A lot of canned cat foods use guar gum or carrageenan as a thickener; the tapioca would accomplish the same thing.

    I sometimes use tapioca starch in baking, since I'm allergic to most grains. It does have a mildly sweet flavor on it's own.