One of my friends has left his wee Pug with me for three weeks. She’s a lovely little thing, but damn needy. My friend is a heroin addict. He’s left the rock for a month to clean up. He loves the wee dog more than anything in the world, so please, no judgments here. She looks a little thin for my liking and gobbles food like a stray when I feed her. She’s otherwise healthy and of sound mind. Obviously not neglected, well loved. My Brother has been trying to maintain her weight (she’s prone to overeating and obesity) but the critter seems perpetually hungry. Even having a salad is an ordeal for me. Those huge, bulging, hungry eyes. Any suggestions, my dear, learned friends?
Edit: Oh, and she craps and pees in totally random places.
that’s like my son. And I am not kidding, i have even got him tested for worms and such and he looks starved too but he is not. I hope any replies will help me out too.
Several years ago now, I rescued my much beloved and never forgotten ShaoBai from the streets. ShaoBai had belonged to someone before and I think had been on the streets for not more than one or two months. Even so, when I took him to the vet he said that 100 percent of Taiwan’s street dogs will have heart worms. I’d never seen any worms in his poo, and even the vet said he was otherwise very healthy, so I didn’t test him or think much about it. Finally, he started to feel feverish and have bits of stringy wormy looking things in his poo so I took him back. Heart worms. They didn’t come out in the poo until they were long enough to wind from his heart through his digestive system and break off.
The treatment was awful and we had to leave the island in the middle of it, but he lived!!
I’m not diagnosing anything, just giving a little heads up from my own experience.
I don’t know much about pugs, but most dogs never feel full. They just swallow whole chunks of as much food as they can–which serves them in packs as wild animals. A domestic dog, though, will just eat himself to death if you let him.
If he’s pooping and peeing randomly, maybe you should try to encourage him to go where you want him to go with something like a puppy patch—a square of astro terf like stuff. Or make sure you walk him very often. How old is the dog and how long has your friend had him?
[quote=“housecat”]Several years ago now, I rescued my much beloved and never forgotten ShaoBai from the streets. ShaoBai had belonged to someone before and I think had been on the streets for not more than one or two months. Even so, when I took him to the vet he said that 100 percent of Taiwan’s street dogs will have heart worms. I’d never seen any worms in his poo, and even the vet said he was otherwise very healthy, so I didn’t test him or think much about it. Finally, he started to feel feverish and have bits of stringy wormy looking things in his poo so I took him back. Heart worms. They didn’t come out in the poo until they were long enough to wind from his heart through his digestive system and break off.
The treatment was awful and we had to leave the island in the middle of it, but he lived!!
I’m not diagnosing anything, just giving a little heads up from my own experience.
I don’t know much about pugs, but most dogs never feel full. They just swallow whole chunks of as much food as they can–which serves them in packs as wild animals. A domestic dog, though, will just eat himself to death if you let him.
If he’s pooping and peeing randomly, maybe you should try to encourage him to go where you want him to go with something like a puppy patch—a square of astro terf like stuff. Or make sure you walk him very often. How old is the dog and how long has your friend had him?
I wish you, and your friend, great success![/quote]
Thank you, Ms Housecat!
My Shiba Inu always eats like it’s the first and last meal she will ever have. I’ve tried for years to get her to relax. When I just head for the kitchen she gets up so quickly to follow me that she usually slips on the tiles and her knee falls out and she sits there howling.
Firstly like people have said get a vet to check him out.
Once you know he is healthy, the permanently ravenous thing could be easily explained. He may not have had regular meals in the past, so has known hunger, real hunger. And been unable to rationalise it. So now whenever food is available goes for it, yeah he may not be hungry at the time, but who knows when the next meal will come. There are ways of dealing with this, but it takes a long time.
