Frequently Asked Questions...
My dog eats weird. Is she normal?
My dog is a miniature dachund who is more than a few pounds overweight. Her food and water bowl are right by the border between the kitchen floor and the living room carpet. We have a rug down to walk from the kitchen to the living room. The rug is about 1-1 and 1/2 feet away from her food/water. She will get a big mouth full of food, walk to the rug, spit all the food out on the rug and then eat it a few pieces at a time. When all the food from that mouthful is gone she goes back and does it again. Why doesn't she just eat at her bowl?
Answer:
My dogs do the exact same thing. I have a Jack Russel and a pound puppy shepherd (who is actually 10 years old) that both do this. I think the JR (7 years old) learned this from the the shep. Maybe they learned this process by the way you feed them, I have always put 1/2 cup of food in each bowl in the morning and and night to make sure they don't feel starved. A friend of mine doesn't feed his five dogs until 6 at night and they chow down like its their last meal. If you relate your eating habits with a dog, we munch all day, never gorging ouselves with one big meal because you starved all day or all night, while I'm not a Vet, I think this is most humane because it allows the dog to eat as they are hungry. Many times I have come home and found full bowls of food indicating that they were not hungry in the morning or that they may be sick, just like humans. My dogs are not overweight and are always happy. They rarely have intestinal problems and have rarely been to the vet. My friend who has starved his dogs all day has regular visits to the vet for many problems, this may be an indication of the type of dog or the owner. Again, I'm not a vet but this behavior is actually kinda funny and I enjoy it.
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Designing a Mini Kitchen Garden Balcony
Designing a kitchen garden balcony doesn't only provide colorful attractive tiny and dwarf varieties of fruits and vegetables looks but also provide your dinner table with fresh food. There are so many varieties, which you can grow in hanging baskets or other pots and tubs in a limited place, such as miniature cherry tomatoes are best to grow in hanging baskets, other options may include dwarf courgettes, miniature aubergines, and an ornamental sweet pepper plant that produces fruit in different shades of purple, red and yellow, which are nothing less than any exotic plant.
If luckily your balcony is a real suntrap, the best available option is the high-rise gourmet that can do their best with early ripening and good yields. Some modern varieties and hybrids are so bred to produce the maximum fruit from the miniature plants, for instance, from just a single plant of tomatoes or soft fruit, you can get 5 kilogram (10 lb) of fruit. The selection of plants largely depends on the size of your kitchen balcony. You can start from pot grown herbs, strawberries, or tomatoes to raised timber beds or boxes in which you can grow salad plants like spring onions, perpetual corn salad, radishes, and Little Gem lettuces.
Growing vegetables
You can grow different varieties of vegetables in your kitchen balcony, so that you will have fresh and healthy vegetables available at your home. Growing vegetables in your balcony is a great fun and thrill. You can grow potatoes in a barrel or you can use grow bags for the purpose of planting limited variety of compact vegetables, such as stump-rooted carrots or short-growing peas and broad beans. Although these bags are usually not very attractive, you can conceal them behind a brick faced frame or a timber so as to keep your balcony look attractive and stylish. For proper drainage, there are specially designed trays and troughs available in the market that is useful in draining water properly without flooding or ruining the balcony. Runner beans can also make lovely annual climbers for a trellis.
Growing fruits
Growing fruits along with vegetables in your balcony is also a great idea. The kiwi plant, Actinidia chinensis is purely a decorative climber. Other soft bushes like red or white currents, loganberries, blackberries and black currents can also be grown in the pots and tubs.
One or two dwarf fruits with trained branches like espalier and cordon will take very little place. Apples and pears can also be grown under these conditions. The balconies with hot sunny conditions, apricot trees, peach and nectarine can be used with branches trained into fan shapes. The sacking must be used to protect the fruits and bushes where balconies are in cold areas and pretty much exposed.
Citrus tree is a famous patio and balcony plant, which can easily be clipped and trained formally. Citrus tree is usually grown for decoration instead of a source of fruit as they look so pretty. As the small pots and tubs are easy to lift and can be shifted indoor in cold conditions, these are best for sunny balconies.
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