Gillingarra Great Danes: Puppies

Welcome

Welcome to Gillingarra Great Danes. We are Debbie & Ed Scott, we live in the UK and have been in Danes since 2000. We are now concentrating on building a Harlequin line and intend to not only produce dogs of fine quality, but of good temperament and health, which we feel is paramount to any breed. We are very proud of our newest addition, a home bred harlequin dog Gillingarra Bark At The Moon, who we have high hopes for in the future. We would like to thank Joanne Walton of Ravendane for entrusting us with Roxy (Dam) and Leigh Wells of Panchito for allowing us to own our wonderful Buster (Sire).

Friday 13 April 2007

Puppies

We only breed when we are looking for a pup to enhance our own line. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to be considered for our waiting list. Taking on a Great Dane puppy is a huge commitment and we are extremely fussy about choosing homes for our babies, so please be prepared for lots of questions. All our pups are sold with endorsements, this means they can not be exported or bred from without our permission. For owners that are serious in their intentions towards the breed, we will consider lifting endorsements and offer all the help and advice that we can.

Puppies are sold with 6 weeks free insurance, full instructions for both diet and exercise and a life time back up service from us. You will be asked to sign a sales contract. Our puppies are raised on a natural diet (see details on right of page) however we do understand that not all new owners will find this convenient and therefore will provide instructions for suitable complete feeding if requested.

If you are lucky enough to own a harlequin in the future, you will be in for years of fun. They don't call them the clowns of the breed for nothing!

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Puppy Diet

My diet is based on that advised by Dr Ian Billinghust in his book: * Grow Your Pups with Bones*.

With Great Danes we want to grow them slowly to prevent all the bone/joint problems we see in this breed, and although they may be slimmer and not as roly poly as other kibble fed puppies; this is desirable because we are building them into a strong, lean and muscular body with healthy bone and joints.

The basic puppy diet consists of 60% raw, meaty bones and 40% of the patty mix (instructions follow).

This diet is divided into 3 or four meals per day. Dr. Billinghurst suggests feeding a puppy 10% of its body weight in food every day. Ie: an 11 lb puppy would eat about a pound of food daily, divided into 3 or 4 meals.

Common sense must prevail and this is not written in stone; the next thing to do is to watch and monitor your pups weight gain or loss.

For raw meaty bone meal

I prefer to give young puppies ground chicken until they are ready to cope with wings, carcasses etc. IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE GROUND CHICEKEN INCLUDES THE BONE. This is available from most good pet suppliers.

PATTIE MIX

Lean minced meat and veggies (pulped) WITH JUICE total weight is 2 kg or about 4 ¼ lb.

You add the following supplements:

Yoghurt: low fat and plain..1/2 a small tub

Eggs: raw about three

Flax seed oil,hemp oil3 tablespoons

Raw liver: a ¼ of lamb's liver, or 2 oz. chicken liver, beef heart, chicken or turkey gizzards

Garlic: 1 or 2 cloves

Kelp or greens powder: 3 teaspoons

B vitamins and vitamin C: a mega dose of each

Vitamin E: 100 IU daily for a 11 lb. Pup and gradually increase IU's as pup grows up, to 400 II for adult.

Cod liver oil: 1 to 2 ml. Daily

Mix the meat, veggies and supplements up , divide into meals and freeze.

Note: I prefer to add B and C vitamins separately, as well as Vit. E , as then I know that the individual pup has eaten the vitamins. Vit. E should not be frozen.

Meat for the Pattie mix can include any of the following minced varieties:

chicken , beef, lamb, rabbit, turkey, pork, venison .As long as it is RAW.

Veggies for the Pattie mix are juiced and can be any of the following:

carrots, beets, spinach, squash, celery, greens , apples, oranges, grapes, mangoes, bananas, peas, green beans, dried fruit, blueberries,etc.

I prefer to keep the fruits separate from the veggies in the mix and feed fruit occasionally with the raw meaty bone meal.

Cooked veggie scraps, rice, cottage cheese, scrambled eggs are good occasionally. For variety I also give canned or poached salmon (never raw), sardines, mackerel or unbleached tripe.

Large RAW Bones:

The other part of the diet is large bones; the long bones from the limbs of cattle. The femurs and tibia's of the hind legs or radius and ulna of forelegs.

Bones are great for teething and they get calcium/phosphorous/minerals from a natural source.

Bones are a natural tooth brush, you will keep those teeth pearly white.

These bones they need every day to chew on, not only does it keep them from chewing on furniture etc; it keeps their jaws and whole body exercised. It

provides valuable cartilage for producing healthy, disease free joints in pups.

Rawhide bones, pigs ears are loaded with chemicals plus they can cause a blockage in the intestinal tract AVOID THEM!

Must haves:

Vitamin C 1200 mg. Min. Daily I give as much as they can tolerate.(bowel tolerance) until they have a real loose stool and then cut back until stool is normal

Cod liver oil (in winter)

Ground flax or flax oil daily Hemp or Omega essential Balance oil 1tbsp. For variety I use salmon oil caps with ground flax seed. Flax seed in the AM and salmon oil (1000mg) caps in the PM. The key is to use a variety of EFA's