What are you feeding your Thai dog?

[Peterphuket]

My neighbour, a Belgian, buys fried chicken from the cafeteria every day for his street dog.
Time after time, the owner of the shop is highly surprised that someone spends so much money on a street dog, incidentally, so am I.

[Peterphuket]

On 12/25/2024 at 11:44 AM, Yagoda said:

Thai dog food.

Do you mean food made from Thai dogs?

[Yagoda]

5 minutes ago, Peterphuket said:

Do you mean food made from Thai dogs?

Wouldnt be a bad idea to keep the population down

[WDSmart]

We have about 20 dogs, all of whom were strays we rescued. We feed them dry dog food in the morning and a mixture of rice and some kind of scrap meat (chicken or pork) in the evening. This seems to work well for all of them, 

[G_Money]

16 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

We have about 20 dogs, all of whom were strays we rescued. We feed them dry dog food in the morning and a mixture of rice and some kind of scrap meat (chicken or pork) in the evening. This seems to work well for all of them, 

20!!!

 

 I certainly hope they don’t have free reign in your house.

[khunPer]

On 12/24/2024 at 4:31 AM, advancebooking said:

I have adopted a few soi dogs. Currently just giving them a large bowl each of dry food. Is this enough? 

 

I had a dog last year and gave him half a tin of dog food and dry food. But I noticed he was putting on a lot of weight from the tin food. 

 

Is a bowl of dry food enough per day?

thanks. 

Many dogs live from dry food, it's stated to include all necessary needs for a dog.

 

However, all dry-food are not all the same. If a dog has a choice, it might select special brand-names or taste (smell).

 

I think it's a pitty for a dog to get same food every single day – I would also be sad without a bit of variation – so I feed my Thai soi dogs with variated food. Remember, that a soi dog won't eat the same food all the time, when it is serching itself for something to eat.

 

However, I do use dry food as a base – just like a human for example will use rice as a base – which might also give the dogs necessary vitamins etc.

 

I buy minced chicken, which is about same price per kg as dry food, fry it in vegetable oil, divide it in samller portions – about 150 gram, but that might be depending of the size of the dog, mine are between 15 kg and 20 kg – and freeze it. For variation I use a small can of Mackarel in tomato – Makro sells own brand for about 11-12 baht a can – and boiled small soup rib-bones.

 

If you only serve dry food for a dog, you need to add a bit og oil – or fat – otherwise their skin and fur might get too dry.

 

I don't mix the "home made gourmet-dishes" with dryfood – dogs will try to separagted with the best parts to be eaten first, in case they get full – so I serve it separated in the bowl. Dry food-size is one cup. The best part – the home made food – is always eaten first. Some times a bit dry food is left, which shows that the dog is full. You can try different amounts of dry food and by that way find out, when it's enough.

 

Bones are good to keep the dog's teeths in good condition, alternatively can be used teeth-cleaning goodie. Remember, you shall not give chicken-bones to a dog, it can kill them.

 

A variation can be the mackerel in tomato, mashed and mixed with left over rice from dinner. It needs to be mixed, as boiled rice itself is not preferred food for dog; you never see a natural dog running around carrying a a rice-cooker...😉

 

I've always – also in my home country – only been feeding my dogs one time a day, which was recommended by their breeders and trainers at home. However, they get a goodie now and then, when deserving it for good behavior. They also get a goodie-stick as desert after dinner, and will nicely sit a wait for it; sometimes a bit of dry food is left to be eaten after the desert goodie.

 

A goodie and your voice pitch is an excellent way to train a dog to follow your commands. Also goodies are different taste, so it's both a question of finding the right brand or type, and what the dog gets used to; sometimes it takes a little while for a net dog to get used to the house's gourmet-menu.

[WDSmart]

8 minutes ago, G_Money said:

20!!!

 

 I certainly hope they don’t have free reign in your house.

None of them are allowed in our house. We live on about 12 rai up in the mountains. We have two houses on the property, and the dogs live (sleep) in the open garage, which is under the large house, and on the porch, which is on the smaller house. During the day, they just roam around the mountains (unless it rains), although they generally stay close to the houses.  

They act as alarms because when anyone comes in a car or on foot on our property, they bark loudly. In fact, that scares some delivery drivers, like Flash, but they've never bitten anyone. In fact, after the delivery drivers come to the house, the dogs just want to play with them. 

[sometime]

Dried dog food,spoon of tinned dog food, boiled pumpkin, rice, mixed and topped with a cube of boiled pigs liver/gravy

[JGon]

Not soi dogs (German Shepperd, Golden Retriever) but they eat dog dried food and chicken from Big C.  They both quite large, probably 50kg each.

[jts-khorat]

On 12/24/2024 at 4:31 AM, advancebooking said:

I have adopted a few soi dogs. Currently just giving them a large bowl each of dry food. Is this enough?

 

The dog at the family farm simply gets what is leftover from the day: chicken leftovers from the food or during slaughter, fish curry, bones, but mainly the old rice. It seems to be enough to feed him, and it is not a small dog either.

 

I often worry about splintered chicken/fish bones, but generations of those animals had this diet without obvious injury.