What I have eaten to grow so big
DAK (w.h. 93.5cm)

(These are not professional, publicly verified instructions how to feed Irish Wolfhounds and this way to show we are e.g. more clever than you; but it is just an inner issue of our family and Dak himself. With his authorisation which was not free of charge, we offer these bits of information to our friends and their friends as well.)

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1. DRY FOOD

  • Main feeding element, K9, eukanuby, ANKA… even if we changed the food eukanuba came right – with shark gristle, lamb meat, with chondrotin sulf. And glucosamin.

  • Daily dose according to the weight of a dog and its hunger (most of all)

  • From 2 to 6 months 5 times a day! – considering that Dak was a chronic non-eater, all the content of a bowl had to be pushed into his nozzlee in parts – by hand

  • From 7 to 10 months 3 times a day – by pushing again

  • From 11 to 18 months twice a day

  • From 19 months till now once a day – pushing is not necessary

I do not remember the months exactly, they might be shifted but the food was gradually reduced and he himself showed he did not want more.

!!!After each meal 2 hours of peace as minimum, without even walking up and down the stairs!!! (the risk of stomach turning)

2. WATER

- fresh water to every meal is a must - twice a day a teaspoon of vitamin C into water – the one the dog drinks most (after walking …) !!vitamin C for animals only!!

3. AND WHAT ELSE HE IS GIVEN INTO THE DRY FOOD

  • An important bad habit thanks to it he does not take a pure granule into his muzzle, and even more, he makes us flavour a smallest rest in a bowl because we do not want to waste food and there is not another dog to eat it up.

  • As a ppupy his dry food was flavoured with a meat tin for puppies (his favourite beef one)

  • But I recommend a meat mixture – cooked, chopped and hidden under the granules – about a handful into a bowl, but he would beg another one in a minute.

  • Pork, heart, tongue

  • Pork knee, boneless pettitoes – separately even once a week (it is possible to reward other hungry members of a family – without salt!)

  • Beef heart, gristle, on Christmas Eve (birthday) even beef hind

  • Beef tripe

  • Chicken hearts, stomachs

  • Venison – boar, roe deer, fallow deer – according to zour successful hunting season

  • If there is no meat you can use:

  • A spoonful of lard with greaves, and home-made fallow fat

  • Sandwich tuna in oil

  • Rarely liver pβtι

I cook meats and entrails together all at once and then I freeze in packets, so every day he has something different.

 

 

4. AND WHAT HE IS GIVEN EVERY DAY DURING THE DAY

First we wanted to gratify, than improve the standard, and now he requires tat. Every day he stands and hammers the pantry with his paw and begs for dessert after his meal (biscuit, hard roll).

A banana, grapes, an apple, cherries, strawberries and others according to a season

1-9 months - dry milk for children over 12 months, twice a day

9-11 months - milk for dogs (canine or pedigree), once a day

18 and over - goat milk – freshly milked, once a day

white yoghurt, curds once or twice a day – from cow milk only up to 9 month

raw egg, yolk is better

raw chicken liver – for a better taste it is possible to roast it on both sides in a dry pan twice a week 500 g

raw meat – beef, veal, venison 100-200 g per week

joint gristle from a boar, deer, pork once a week

big bones – they cannot exceed 15 % of daily food dose - they help to push out the anal glandules

5. SUPPLEMENTS

Multivitamins for dogs
Pet – Agree – vitamins
Caniviton Forte 10 – for bones and gristles
Gelatine – gristles

6. DAILY ROUTINE

Absolutely simple. After each meal 2 hours of rest, then walks. He slept 16 – 20 hours a day. If disturbed in a day time he left for the bedroom to find silence and peace. If he wanted out – we went. If he wanted to sleep – he was not allowed to be disturbed.

APPENDIX

Milk, dairy products - content of calcium, proteins
Raw eggs, yolks - vitamin A
Bananas - content of potassium
Grapes - content of biophlavons, antioxydants
Apples - content of pectin, binds and reduces cholesterol
Strawberries - content of iron
Cherries - content of iodine
Raw meat - support of immune system
Raw chicken liver - support of growth
Chicken hearts and stomachs - source of minerals
Beef tripe - content of calcium, magnesium
Beef heart - content of koenzyme Q10
Pork, fallow meat - source of animal zinc
Pork knee, pettitoes - for development of joint gristles
Bone gristles - support of joints
Home-made lard, greaves - source of energy
Tuna fish - unsaturated fatty acids

 

 

SO THAT IS NEARLY ALL.

And if he is really hungry he goes fishing.