I have a 6 month old pup who also loves to tear up tissues. I don't
know if he actually ingests any though. He's on all raw diet with
RMB's making up about 75% of his diet. I considered the tissue mess
to just be a puppy thing, is it a sign of calcium deficiency in
puppies as well?
Thanks,
Jenny
Dallas, TX

--- In purelypets@yahoogroups.com, Darleen Rudnick <darleen@p...>
wrote:
> Soap and tissue eating are a sign of a calcium deficiency. I would
> recommend a high quality vitamin containing at least 50 mg. of
calcium for
> a pet 50 lbs. and under and 100 mg. of calcium for a pet 50 lbs.
and
> over. You can look at Mega Pet on my website at www.purelypets.com
>
>
>
> At 03:27 AM 1/22/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
>
> >Help! Jebediah will not stop eating tissue and other non food
items.
> >Today he came across a bar of Ivory soap. By the time I found it,
> >most of it was gone, along with half the wrapper. I suspected Jeb
of
> >course (we have 9 dogs). Sometimes he gets a stomach ache, like
> >tonight. Could this behavior be related to a nutritional
deficiency?
> >In the past I have fed my dogs a bones and raw food diet, but with
> >the recent addition of two elderly family members into our home, I
> >put them back on commercial dog food. Jeb eats canned Ol' Roy, any
> >healthful scraps that I find, plus I add fish oil, homeopathic
> >allergy drops, and sometimes dandelion or other herbs. He loves
> >radishes. Unfortunately, two old ladies use a lot of tissues, and
> >they will not do without them, nor will they control them. I am
> >constantly looking for them on the floor, or tucked into furniture.
> >BTW, Jeb is a 6 year old Australian Cattle Dog. The breed is
stocky,
> >but Jeb doesn't carry enough weight. The other dogs will
> >occasionally carry paper things in their mouth, and the Jack
Russell
> >makes a real mess with a tissue.
> >
> >
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> >
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
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