Hello,
I thought I would send you some updated pictures of our little furry family (minus my husband, of course!). Bella is my soulmate. It is as if I have had her with me all my life. She loves to lie next to me and put her head on my shoes or slippers - on or off my feet. I am finally feeling good about her eating. She has always been picky and at first I severely overcompensated by putting warm chicken, white rice and warm gravy on her food and then still had to coax her to eat it. She just didn't seem very interested. I tried several different brands of food and several schedules. She can also have a tendency to vomit some bile if she isn't fed at a certain time. I spoke to the vet about it and she assured me that Shepherds could be like that and that I could give her something like prevacid if needed. Finally though, I believe I have her figured out. She has a sensitive stomach and so does our Ashley. But once I gave her some of the Pro-plan shredded chicken kibble and she liked it. So now she gets 1/2 cup of the Pro-plan chicken and 1 cup of the sensitive adult food. Sometimes I vary the amounts - a little more chicken and less sensitive, for instance. But she still doesn't dig into it, so I break on of those little dog biscuits in half, put 1/2 in her bowl (while she is watching) and the other in Ashley's bowl. Bella snags the biscuit and takes it into the living room to eat it, and it seems that once she has had a little taste of food, she will then dig into her breakfast! Voila! There are pics of Bella and Ashley at Christmas in antlers - don't shoot me Brian, I know you don't like that! Bella and Ashley get along wonderfully and there are absolutely no problems with Tubby, either. He had a little yuckiness on his eye once and Bella found it, licked his eye clean for the next couple of days and his eye got better. They are good buddies. Thank you all for the wonderful job you do with the rescue, which enabled us to have our sweet girl. Please pass this on to whatever newsletter you have so everyone can know what a great job you do. Thanks again.
The Pooles
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