Buford!

This is our latest foster dog, Buford. He is a sweetheart! He's polite and affectionate and just wants to lay across your lap, he's very easy to love.

He's a smaller dog in stature and right now he's very skinny, due to an esophagus problem that causes him to throw up if he isn't held upright for 5 minutes after eating. He can't eat hard food, but he loves rawhide chewies. He's very motivated by food, I'm hoping that feeding him small meals around the clock will stop him from feeling frantic about food. I have a recipe for food that I'm making for him. It's called "Satin Balls" and he LOVES it. Apparently, it helps dogs to put on weight quickly.

Buford was likely given up by his owner because of his health problems, and the poor baby bounced all over the state. According to paperwork that I have, he's traveled all the way from Iowa City to Waterloo to Waverly to Ames and here to our house in Urbandale. He can stay here until he finds his forever home! He gets along fabulously with Sophie and has had a few snarly moments with Copper, but Copper is a notorious jerk. He's housebroken and hasn't had any problems since he arrived. He's oddly afraid of crossing the threshold from the kitchen out onto the deck, not sure what that's about, but he can easily be bribed with food.

RECIPE for SATIN BALLS

10 lbs of cheap hamburger meat

1 large box Total(tm) cereal

1 large box uncooked oatmeal

15 oz jar of wheat germ

10 eggs

10 small pkgs knox unflavored geletin2

1 1/4 cup vegetable oil

1 1/4 cup unflavored molasses

Pinch of salt

Directions:

1. Mix all ingredients together in large (or larger) bowl.

2. Place in freezer bags, appoximately 1 lb per bag.

3. Place in freezer, thaw as needed.

4. Feed raw.

Pinch off the amount you want to feed and roll into a ball. Place on top of regular food. This recipe is good for putting weight on a dog. Be careful though, it will put weight on the dog in a matter of a few days. A lot of weight in a matter of a few weeks! Total cereal because it contains all the vitamins and minerals necessary as a supplement. Knox gelatin not only holds the stuff together (molasses does a good job of that) but it is a protein builder.

Recipe from:

Sandi Wittenberg

Red Bay Bassets