The amount of times you had to throw stellas toy back up was funny

Love that you do so much homework and stay in communication with your vet..you're a great dog mom. Happy Mothers Day.

I’m getting my first miniature dachshund next Sunday and I am so excited could you do a video of tips you wish you knew about the first night and day of having her home

To anyone interested in learning more about raw diets I’d highly recommend the Primal Pack and the Tattooed Dog Trainer channels, I’ve learnt so much from them! I don’t have a dog but I work in the pet industry and have a cat, so I’ve done endless research on nutrition (I also just find it really interesting!). I’d definitely recommend giving raw a try at some point in the future, there’s so many brands that do it at a much more cost effective price than Royal Canin/Hill’s and it’s so much better. Prepackaged is also usually portioned and you don’t have to handle it much more than cutting the package open. Definitely good to be so cautious of cross-contamination, though. Science diets may be “nutritionally complete” but they’re not necessarily healthy when the first or second ingredient is often corn (= sugar). Even in grain free kibble, corn/what/sit is just replaced with potato/rice/lupins. If anyone reading this has a dog with digestive issues, skin/coat issues or dental issues, raw might be a really good option for your dog. But just as you said, it’s a decision that depends on your lifestyle as an owner and your dog’s needs, and what really matters is the health of your animal. It’s great that you’ve made an educated decision and that’s what we all should do.

I really appreciate you sharing your research and decisions on feeding Stella. My Ollie is also a long-haired shaded cream miniature dachshund and he too has had stomach problems at times. Ollie's vet does not recommend a raw diet and no grain-free (I know that there is a lot of mixed information there, also). I finally landed on Dave's Bland Food supplemented with cooked (but not over-cooked) white meat chicken and homemade broth. Sometimes he gets Bison which he really loves. He gets freeze dried chicken as a treat but not very much. He had lamb ear chews as a baby, but now no chews. He just does not do well with them at all and has choked before. I want to give him a homemade diet (which his vet also recommends--she has a recipe) but with the hurricanes down here in Florida, I know that I cannot just switch him to kibble overnight if the power goes out for a long time or if I am evacuated somewhere I cannot make his food.

I got my miniature dachshund on Friday. He's a smooth haired. I do a combination of wet dog food and kibble

Also I've found beef tracheas to be great long lasting chews, and its one of the best things you can give them for their backs

i see this video is old, so i hope you've changed treats to better quality ones like rabbit ears and tendons, and moved from kibble to raw. gorgeous dog!

I do agree with you about the treats. My baby LOVEs frozen beef hearts. I also buy beef sticks for him, but in a large size, so he cannot just swallow it. But for some reason he doesn't like Greenies. He just turned 1 yr old :)

For the bully sticks there are special holders to hold them in place so your dog doesn’t swallow them 🙂 I love your videos btw 💕 My puppy also sometimes sniffs her food and walks away, sometimes even missing a meal hmmm... 🤔 she is on blue buffalo for puppies right now (she’s a 10 month old long haired red/brown Dachshund- standard I think we don’t know yet) she doesn’t throw up from it though. pretty much the only way for me to get her to eat her food is to mix it with warm water and freeze dried raw pieces. Any suggestions for food brands??

Hey huge fan of you and love stella

Thanks so much for sharing all of this!! Listening to your story honestly reminds me so much of all the feeding difficulties I experienced with my cat! I think cats and dogs can both be very picky about their food haha!!

I feed my 2 miniature dachshunds Purina Pro Plan for small adults, the kibble is small enough for them to eat and it includes small chicken pieces that my dogs love!

great videos ! thx ! how much does Stella weigh today ?

Hi Ms Holly! How much dog food or scoop should I feed my 5 months old dachshund? Hoping for your response.

Do you use ramps for Stella or let her jump on and off furniture?

My LH mini Sammy never was a kibble fan. I chose weruva can food which he has been eating faithfully for the past 5 yrs. I only feed him kibble as a treat. I chose zignature. They are the only one that has taurine which is very important for dogs. I did have him on raw which he preferred the most from Raw Paws but it was very expensive. I would like to try The farmers dog or nom nom but again they are costly also.

U should add the links to all the treats chews and foods!!!!

If you are looking for a really good cooked food that is balanced and you don't have to make yourself check out Tom & Sawyer. They are based in Toronto. I currently feed Eevee this mixed with Carna4 kibble because the cooked food is a little pricey and not as filling

omg i realized I was just watching your dog, and not listening to what you're saying so had to rewind 😅

You and Stella are so cute

I find my dogs love kibble a lot more if i add a little low sodium meat stock!

I decided to go with Stella and Chewys kibble with the freeze dried chunks, get the best of raw and kibble in one, its just overpriced but my doxin doesn't eat very much anywho so I figured why not

Eevee LOVES beef too! she will go crazy for anything beef anything else is considered a low value treat in her mind. if she is being particularly sassy she will only take beef treats even tho I give her a variety

My doxie did that with food she didn't like, after trying to bury it, she would give me a look like really mom, would you eat it. After that I prepared her meals veggies meats and all, portioned it and froze it. Also a smaller kibble is easier for doxies 💗 My little girl died of cancer 3 years ago and I still can't 💔 get over loosing her. I have never had such a broken heart 💔

Great advice! My mini is 10 months and I feed her Royal canin puppy dachshund. I haven’t had any issues. She usually eats one meal. I thought it was weird but heard it’s normal bc she’s still a puppy

Well let me share my experiences as well. I've got 3 miniature dachshunds; Ruby(7 years old), Bruno (4 years old) and luna (1 years old). Up until about a year ago they was all fed on kibble plus other chews and treats from big brands such as pedigree (big in the UK). About a year ago when we got luna, the dog breeder asked us what we was planning on feeding her to cut a long story short she basically told us to try raw feeding among with swapping treats to more natural treats. It was a super easy swap here in the UK you can buy pre-made raw complete dog food. Which is basically 65% human grade meat like what me and you would eat from the store, 15% ground bone and 20% vegetables plus all the nutrients they need that they can't get from meat alone. I'm not exaggerating the change in all 3 dogs was noticeable within a week from the food alone. here's a few very big changes; Noticeable increase in appetite towards their food, better smelling breath, more energetic and within the first 4 weeks all 3 dogs had shed loads of fur which is unusual for the breed (they're all short haired) and they hair that replacing it was super soft and shiny. Extremely noticeable. I want to make a point of saying that the kibble we was feeding them before was a "no grain" x amount of meat kibble which was very expensive £50 for a bag that would last all 3 dogs 3 weeks so around $70 usd. What's funny as well is the raw diet they're on at the minute only costs £40 for 4 weeks. The treats and chews we've changed to; for training I use boiled chicken breast and break it up into really small chunks, very effective as the dogs seem to think that they're eating my dinner and they go crazy for it very easy to get them to learn new tricks etc . For treats they all have 1 carrot a day about mid day. They also have a treat by a manufacturer called whimzees they produce a chew that is purely vegetable based its consistency is hard but easily chewed for a dog. This digests really easily for them and helps they're teeth along with the carrot. Kibble is a still a relatively new thing that been bought in around 70 years ago; you've surely got to wonder what people fed they're dogs before that. The big thing that put me off kibble personally is a lot of the ingredient in a lot of kibbles at least here in the UK are carbohydrate based like grain etc which dogs struggle to digest (obviously they still do) and it gets metabolised into sugars which is why you find a lot of older dogs with horrific teeth and breath because of all the sugars in carbs. Just like humans as they are mammals, too much carbs are terrible it's like some food might as well be McDonalds for them. The cheaper brands are criminal for that with the mechanically recovered meat in them plus the big amounts of fillers. Just my personal experience It's hard to choose something that your going to feed your dog especially when they're your absolute world like my 3 are. Vets are taught at university to feed dogs kibble and a lot of them recommend kibble as it's such a convenient option. I promise you seriously promise you that your dog like mine would go absolutely crazy for raw food. Different world I promise you. A carrot after the raw food will help them move most of the food if they have any in there teeth etc so they can lick away.

Stella is so cute

Can you feed them Lean meat like chicken, steak, pork cooked?

Have you tried beef cheeks? They last for ever; no choking, it doesn’t hurt their teeth and it doesn’t upset their digestion! They are literally the best thing ever!

I think they have treat size bags of ziwi.

We tried raw for our mini doxie. She had the worst diarrhea for 2 weeks. Vet put her on RC GI prescription. Anywho. Went back to kibble. Was on RC daschund kibble. She stopped eating it. Now we buy Farmina lamb and blue berry. So far so good but she is gaining weight. Too many bully sticks and treats I guess!! She is so picky!!

i liked for the burp 🥺😂

Rusty has the same issues. I finally found an all natural one he will tolerate meet.

I want the best for my dog how do I get my dog to calm down aggressiveness and fear and lose weight

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Is she a shaded red hair?

My dachshund does the exact same with the food

Thanks for the information. Please tell me how much you feed Stella? My dog is overweight and I don’t know if it’s because I just feed him too much. I do know that we don’t get enough exercise. Thank you.

I just got told by my vet to feed raw. My dog is older and had lots of teeth removed; vet said my dog can’t digest kibble

No offense but royal canine is garbage. You should check out ziwi beef all grass fed meat, bones, organs and green lipped. Muscles from New Zealand. My dogs love their east cape recipe, super nutritious.

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Also with raw food, I heard you have to deworm your dog more often

that dog hates her food... doxie are hoover for food usually.

My dachshunds are so picky 🙄

Royal Canin is wonderful for Mini and Standard Dachshunds!

The problem is that kibbles don't contain real meat... etc etc etc, I understand your not having the time, totally. However, it does not make the best for your beautiful dog's health.

Kibble…is just junk cereal . Stay raw!

So let me get this straight, you say that "Food is the greatest source of nutrition for your dog" ? Ummm, my gut feeling, or even just common sense, tells me that food is the ONLY source of nutrition, not just for dogs but most living creatures. I mean seriously, what other kind of nutrition is your dog getting if it's not from "food"? Is there some magical "other than food" source of nutrition out there, that is even similar enough to "food" that it even warrants acknowledging that food, out of all the many sources of nutrition, food is the greatest?

I used to feed my dachshund Answers Chicken, rabbit, and beef