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At last I have my dog mostly on Skinners Senior and Light dried. She still favours meat and gravy as she thinks that the dried biscuits are something to have with a cuppa. She is a 14year old lab not fat, in fact slim. Every single night she gets up to spend a penny on the lawn and then has a snack, unfortunatly is unable to open the front door herself, poor me.:( what the heck she gave my Dad 7 wonderful years and now I look after her. She gets sick on an empty tummy, vets thought getting up in the night for a small meal was a good idea.
 
Is this getting up every night to go out something that happens late in the night? If so, that does not sound like fun at all.

Does she have a condition that makes it necessary for her to go out?

If it is possible to train her out of going out, then there are automatic pet feeders that would give her a snack in the middle of the night which might make things a bit easier for you.

Dave
 
Tringa said:
Is this getting up every night to go out something that happens late in the night? If so, that does not sound like fun at all.

Does she have a condition that makes it necessary for her to go out?

If it is possible to train her out of going out, then there are automatic pet feeders that would give her a snack in the middle of the night which might make things a bit easier for you.

Dave
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I'm guessing that, for a dog, being 14 is the condition. :D
 
Its got into a habit but if I pretend not to wake she goes back to bed for a couple of hours. Then its me to spend a penny and its everybody downstairs. I've got it to a fine art, quickly out and a bit of food in bowl, back to bed 5mins. I did used to have sheep lambing and I was up at all times at night, sometimes I can hear an Owl or a Fox barking in the distance, October is when the foxes get together and then the vixen screams calling for a mate, then Its better and warmer in the house. That's life:)
 
"vets thought getting up in the night for a small meal was a good idea."

Take your vet's advice.
 
You live in paradise compared to city dwellers Shirley , the pond/ lake alone is a dream ,count your blessings
 
Me and the missus can get up twice in the night, to go to the loo. But it is more like once in the night, it is probably due to our age ;). We do try and send the dog out in the garden when we get up, but she is clever, and turns over, pretending she did not hear us.
 
It's a lab they eat anything and anytime. Just don't be so nice when they look at you with those gorgeous eyes.

Mine is mainly on John Burns dried large kibble. For his own sake and weight we don't feed him human food.

Also crate trained him from a puppy to sleep through the night. Actually we have always put a black sheet over his crate as well. Our breakfast first, then it's his time. Two times a day only.
 
Ours is on Chappie dry, she seems to like it. She has a small tin of tuna flakes in the evening. Her coat is lovely and silky.
 
Would she learn to use a dog flap?
 
You would try putting pants on a Rotty? Not sure what the burglars would do if they crept through a dog flap and were face to face with a Rotty but I doubt it would be what you suggest!!!
 
Nod said:
I doubt it would be what you suggest!!!
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I didn't suggest what may "come" in their pants but I have an idea :D
 
Apparently, **it happens...
 
I sometimes put a rabbit pellet on the head of a golf club so there's a piece of it on each end. Improves the balance...
 
Cobra said:
Get a Rotty, they'll come in their pants when they come eye to eye with that, through the flap :D
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Oh, that's a whole different fetish!!
 
So, I get a doggy flap fixed and during the night when all it quiet, there is a scratching noise as the flap drops, something is in that should be out, I go downstairs as my dog is quivering in my bed and switch on the light and the dog from hell is staring at me:eek::eek::eek::eek: thats one each for whom lives in my house.
Met this creature on a walk, I didn't know how quickly I could walk backwards.

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