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03-26-2007, 02:06 PM | #1 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Missouri
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| Eating Issues! I was going to post this in Health & Diet, but I'm not sure if that's the proper board. I haven't posted in a while, so hi everyone! After this wet food scare, we took Bella off her wet food entirely even though it wasn't on the recall list. I was just too scared leaving her on it PLUS the vet told us a WHILE ago that we needed to get her off the food (but we spoiled her and let her still have a teaspoon in the morning and a teaspoon at night). It's not like she got a LOT of it....it was like a separate treat before we put her dry food down, which she gets in the morning and night, as well. Well there have been some days that she wouldn't eat all of her dry food. She gets cheerios as treats throughout the day (not a lot, just 5 or 6 here and there or a small handful) plus a couple biscuits (not all together, usually one in the morning and one at lunch). She's NOT deprived of food, it's there for her to eat..... but since we took the wet food away entirely, she will hardly touch her dry food. It's gotten to the point where we've had to mix green beans (which the vet said were okay for her to have, along with carrots) in with her dry food at night just to get her to eat it all. But she's gotten smart with that too and now eats AROUND the dry food and just takes the green bean out (usually throwing most of the food on the ground as she spits it out of her mouth). I don't know if she just doesn't like this dry food anymore or what, I don't know what else to do. A friend of mine suggested mixing it with water so it was like a gravy, but she just snarls her nose up at that and will only give it a couple licks before walking away. She gets NO table scraps, ever. After the way our last yorkie was fed when we got her, we vowed not even a morsel of human food except for what the vet himself recommended. I just don't know what to do.... I don't want her to starve. Her bowel movements are all the same, she's urinating fine, she's still drinking water....it's just a darn struggle to get her to eat. Any suggestions? I don't know if she's being stubborn and trying to resist us in order to get her wet food back or WHAT.... I just don't want her to be hungry.
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03-26-2007, 02:59 PM | #2 | |
YT Addict Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Mississippi
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this EXACTLY describes romeo!!! i am at the point of begging him to eat - yet the vet says he is very healthy and he continues to gain weight. how i do not know when it looks like he doesn't eat enough to fill a thimble! he isn't starving but it makes me worry so much for him. everything is fine - bowel movements,drinks plenty of water,plays and runs around until he can't anymore! i posted how one day he ate so much until i had to move the bowl. i don't know what is going on. | |
03-26-2007, 03:17 PM | #3 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Missouri
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| I call Bella my little chunker, lol. She's definitely a healthy girl. It was just recently that we took the wet food from her though. Even though they ONLY said the Mighty Dog pouches....she eats the regular Mighty Dog can food, and I just didn't trust it anymore. Not to mention the vet told us that she really needed to be off it entirely....which we did, we cut back a lot, just gave it to her in a teaspoon amount. I know, bad bad. MY YORKIE OWNS ME! I know many have said if she gets hungry enough, she'll eat it. There is NOTHING wrong with the food. It's the food she's always, always eaten. She's never had any other kind of dry food except for when she was a very small puppy, so it's not like we switched food and she's not used to it. I'm about read y to go insane.....she eats everything else, so it's not a matter of her not eating PERIOD....it's a matter of her being stubborn and I feel like she's saying, GIVE ME BACK THAT OTHER FOOD, OR ELSE! I'm losin' it. Maybe I expect her to eat too much.......I dunno.
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03-26-2007, 03:23 PM | #4 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Orange County, California
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| Welcome to the Finnicky Eaters Club!!! My Mango is doing the same as Bella and Romeo. She is 4 months old and has been on Nutro Puppy small bites (dry), mixed with less then a Tsp of Science Diet Puppy canned. She always gobbled it down until a week ago, when I too started begging her to eat, coaxing, placing kibble in front of her - anything and everything to get her to eat. I had her checked out at the Vet and she's totally healthy; she just suddenly went off her food. So, of course I started reading the YT forums - Diet/nutrition about food recommendations and decided that Canidae seemed a good bet as far as nutrition and palatability. I took Mango to the pet store just for good measure, so that she could taste and sample. For the first time, when trying the Canidae All Life Stages (original formulla), she ate dry kibble by itself, nothing coating it to tempt her. So today I mixed it in with her Nutro to start weaning her off the latter, and wouldn't you know, she picked out only the Canidae bits and would not touch the Nutro at all, literally "spat" it out next to her bowl, if she mistakenly ate one, LOL. The consultant at the pet store told me there were 3 flavors of the Canidae, if she did not like the original; he also said that not only do most "finnicky" eaters love it, but that it is highlhy nutritious, with all the right ingredients and none of the "filler" rubbish like in the less healthy brands. I have also read on YT that most Yorkie owners notice a marked improvement in the coat after a short period on Canidae. I am just sorry I did not get samples of all the Canidae flavors, just in case. |
03-27-2007, 03:39 AM | #5 | |
YT Addict Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Mississippi
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i guess this is my problem,too! my husband raises pitbull's and i am used to dogs eating all that is in front of them!! i tried giving him some rice mixed in with his science diet and he ate more of it that way - "more" still isn't alot but better. i still look at him and can't not understand why he is so plump!!! does petsmart sell Canidae???? | |
03-27-2007, 03:56 AM | #6 |
YT Addict Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Mississippi
Posts: 481
| i forgot to mention this - every time romeo is in the kitchen and the 'frig door is opened he tears off to it trying to stand his little self up to sniff around in it!! he wants to eat - just what HE wants to eat!! |
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