{"id":2308,"date":"2019-10-27T21:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T01:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2020-06-21T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T01:22:10","slug":"hoshi-doing-well-with-dry-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"Hoshi doing well with dry food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoshi&#8217;s been taking Canidae\u2019s Pure Ancestral for two weeks now. He gobbles it up right away and has nice firm stools. The only difference I notice is the increased amount of stool. I would say it&#8217;s about 3 times as much compared to his raw chicken diet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2293\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BC67398B-FF76-4BAC-8834-02CF54C2535E.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2293\" src=\"https:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BC67398B-FF76-4BAC-8834-02CF54C2535E-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Canidae Pure Ancestral\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BC67398B-FF76-4BAC-8834-02CF54C2535E-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BC67398B-FF76-4BAC-8834-02CF54C2535E-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BC67398B-FF76-4BAC-8834-02CF54C2535E-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/BC67398B-FF76-4BAC-8834-02CF54C2535E.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canidae<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hoshi has gained too much weight. He normally has 3 to 4 chicken thighs a day but I&#8217;ve been substituting one with dry food . Lately, it&#8217;s been 4 servings so I&#8217;m cutting it down to 3.<\/p>\n<h2>Gave Hoshi a bath<\/h2>\n<p>This was another bad summer for fleas. I&#8217;ve been using Frontline and a homemade flea repellent but Hoshi&#8217;s belly was still peppered with flea dirt. I gave him a thorough bath, trimmed his essentials. I even coaxed him with cheese into having a few nails trimmed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2313\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hoshi_10_27_2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2313\" src=\"https:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hoshi_10_27_2019-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hoshi after bath and groom\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hoshi_10_27_2019-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hoshi_10_27_2019-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/hoshi_10_27_2019.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All clean and trimmed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Time<\/th>\n<th>Activity<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2:15<\/td>\n<td>Bath &amp; blow dry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1:30<\/td>\n<td>Trim<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3:45<\/td>\n<td>Total Time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoshi&#8217;s been taking Canidae\u2019s Pure Ancestral for two weeks now. He gobbles it up right away and has nice firm stools. The only difference I notice is the increased amount of stool. I would say it&#8217;s about 3 times as much compared to his raw chicken diet. Hoshi has gained too much weight. He normally&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/?p=2308\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hoshi doing well with dry food<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[296,255,257,298],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-diet","tag-grooming","tag-hoshi","tag-raw-diet","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}