Westie Full of Wind…

Have you given your dog new treats recently? Treats such as doggy chew sticks, flavoured dog biscuits or similar? If so be very careful not to give your Westie too many if you are trying out a new brand.

Recently we bought Mitzi a bag of ‘dental cleaning sticks’ which we saw advertised on TV. On the rear of the packet it said they were suitable for all dogs and would help remove the plaque on dogs teeth. Great we thought, not only will she have lovely clean teeth, she will enjoy the doggy treat as well at the same time.

The instructions were to give a small dog one of the dental cleaning sticks per day, no more. So being a responsible dog owner, we thought we’d try Mitzi with just half of one of these sticks, just in case a full one was too much. Mitzi really enjoy the treat we had given her so we thought we would give her the other half later on in the day.

After about an hour of giving the treat to our West Highland Terrier she was letting off the most disgusting smells in the world! Mitzi cleared the lounge and our guests within 5 seconds of letting off! The smells continued throughout the evening. Our house smelt like a chemical factory! Obviously it wasn’t Mitzi’s fault, it was whatever was in these dental cleaning sticks that made her stomach so bad it produced all this gas and wind! All I can say it thankfully we never gave her the full treat, only half of it.

My advice to you is when trying out new dog treats on your beloved pet, only give your West Highland Terrier either half or less of what the manufacturer recommends because not only can it be bad for your dogs stomach, you may never see your guests again if it happens to you!

Westies do have quite delicate stomachs so always be aware of what you feed them.

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Nosey Little Westie

I have to say that Mitzi certainly beats all the previous dogs we’ve had when is comes down to being nosey, she is frightened of missing a single thing she really is.

After a long run Mitzi usually flops down somewhere on the floor in the house, after 5 minutes or so she is having a good old snore. Even if you tip-toe out of the room to go anywhere she is close to your foot within a nanosecond! How she does it I really don’t know.

When Mitzi and I are out walking and she sees someone enter a garden she stops dead in her tracks, will have a good long look, maybe a couple of barks if she doesn’t like the look of them, and only when that individual has gone into the house will she walk on properly. She doesn’t do this with everyone, just the individuals she’s not seen before. It’s as if she’s trying to find out who that person is and why are they in her neighbourhood!

On the rare occasion that you do sneak out of the living room into the kitchen without Mitzi noticing you, as soon as you open a cupboard door she is there watching your every move – looking to see if there are any spare chew sticks on the go no doubt!

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