5 week old puppy - advice needed!

Fire_Fox

samboette wrote: »

Hi again

Thanks again from us and Alfie. Will definitely looked into the insurance issue once he's an older dog. Will give M&S a call and see what they say.

Alfie is sleeping in our room at the moment, we've sectioned a part of the room off as his 'bedroom' and for the first time since he's been here, we didn't hear a squeek out of him for the entire night, we went to bed at 1am and put him, his bed and a lemonade bottle (which he likes playing with), along with some puppy pads and he slept until half 8 and did his toilets on the pads too with no fuss.

Hope this is a sign that he's starting to feel at home and settle down!

Here are some pics!!

Soooo cute! If you delay getting insurance, any condition that crops up now will mean exclusions later - and the exclusions can be far reaching, any bowel or bladder condition following a seemingly minor infection.

foxymum1977_2

hes gorgeous!! he does look like a yorkie, we have a yorkie x jack russell, good luck with Alfie!

UKTigerlily

cyberbob wrote: »

Doesn't sound like it was very extensive if you still believe Petas political machine (your choice). So have you actually looked at PETA who actually published the information? The organisation that doesn't believe cats should be allowed outside Doesn't believe that Ferals should be be trapped Neutered released (they want the euthanised). Peta eurhanises 95% of the animals it takes into its virginia headquarters

So any article they publish needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. The one they published on Iams a few years ago makes lots of asssumtions with very little actual fact and they never actually name the place that is so called involved. The only so called evidence for this so called abuse is PETA an organisation with its own agenda. The ASPCA in america has investigated the claims and is happy there is no substance and also Happy to still work with IAMS as its shelters happily use IAMS food

If anyone is interested I can supply copies of information on both IAMS and PETA including Petas article on Iams (so I don't just show oneside of the story) PM me if your interested

Just to say I don't actually use IAMS food as my animals don't like it but i would happily if they did. I just hate it when dodgy propaganda gets chucked around the net and even when there so much evidence to the contrary people believe what they first read with little or no question to the background or context

Also other companies such as hills to similar research

http://www.hillspet.co.uk/About-Hills/Animal-Welfare.aspx

Also tigerlily if I remember correctly you feed your cats Chicken wings? So are they free range chicken wings or intensively reared chicken wings. I'm betting the Latter. Its always strange when people boycott companies due to perceived problems with animal welfare but when you look into it they don't boycott other things such as non Free Range Chicken as its too inconvenient

No i've never fed my Cat chicken wings in the ten years of having her or my Dog. I also haven't read PETA's info I don't think but will Google, what I know comes from an Iams former employee

Fire_Fox

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Go Tigerlily!

I wouldn't buy Purina (Nestle), IAMS/ Eukanuba (Proctor & Gamble), Hills (Colgate-Palmolive) or James Wellbeloved (Mars) - I haven't read the PETA website, I do buy other products that might have a connection to some form of cruelty and I am not vegan. I don't believe it's possible to live on a tight budget AND provide your pet with optimal nutrition which is completely cruelty free. Free-range or organic chicken wings are not easy to get hold of unless you live in middle class or perhaps rural area.

samboette

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Soooo cute! If you delay getting insurance, any condition that crops up now will mean exclusions later - and the exclusions can be far reaching, any bowel or bladder condition following a seemingly minor infection.

Thanks Fire Fox, we're not intentionally delaying getting insurance, it's that some Companies, including M&S do not insure a dog until it's 8 weeks old. I've just completed an online quote for Debenhams as suggested and it seems they will insure Alfie, even at only 5 coming on 6 weeks of age. So might go for them.

If we ever need to claim, do they pay up front or do we have to pay and then claim back? We do alright money wise, so hopefully it won't be a problem but just in case we have a run of bad luck,like last year when we were paying out huge repair bills for our car, (which drained our accounts for a short while), in case Alfie needs vet attention and we don't have the funds, will they still pay or is it best to get a policy which pays up front?

Sorry for the amount of questions and help asked for......we deal with vets on a (sometimes) regular basis with our 8 hamsters :eek: which obviously aren't insured and just pay for their ops/treatment on leaving.

Pitlanepiglet

Ahh what a sweetie he is!

We feed raw chicken wings to our dog as well, and as Fire Fox says I have always been told it's cooked bones that splinter not raw bones.

callywally

Does cyberbob work for iams??

MadDogWoman_2

Sam,

I have 3 cats and one greyhound with Petplan. With our regular vet it's pay up front and claim back.

But, if they're referred the whoever they are referred to claim direct as it would be prohibitively expensive for me to pay then claim.

Cat - Tail amputation due to cancer - £1800 (referred to specialist vet as she only had a 2" long tail anyway).

Dog - Pet behaviourist due to separation anxiety.

MDW