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03-17-2008, 06:58 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Massachusetts
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| How often do you feed your babies? I feed mine three times a day and leave kibble down all day that they graze on and barely eat really. I feed them prescription hills z/d and it is getting really expensive. My boys are picky eaters and will not eat just kibble, any suggestions? Thank you in advance!
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03-17-2008, 07:09 AM | #2 |
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| Autumn would eat anything and I mean anything!!! Blaze on the other hand has been very picky since we brought him home. We have been feeding raw for several weeks now and they both have been loving it. No problems. I feed mine twice a day. 6:30 am and 5pm!
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03-17-2008, 07:10 AM | #3 |
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| I feed three times a day. Why the Z/D?
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03-17-2008, 07:12 AM | #4 |
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| Penny eats 3 meals a day. She is almost 3 1/2 mos. She eats Enova puppy dry mixed with Puppy Plate canned or her cooked food. I leave dry when I leave just in case, but she won't eat it .
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03-17-2008, 07:33 AM | #5 |
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| 2 x's per day. 1/8 c. dry at 6:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Also include 1 heaping t. of mushed green beans and 1 t. organic yogurt. Two Yorkies need to have a little dry food before bedtime or they throw-up in the morning when they wake up. Can't free-feed because of the Pommie, Snowboy, gulping everything that smells like it might be food.
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03-17-2008, 10:22 AM | #6 |
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| I feed Rocky 4 times a day. Chcken or beef meal that I cook in the morning, then yogurt at lunch, chicken in the evem 4 pm, and Cottage cheese in the eve. SOme fruit maybe here and there. He is 4.6 lbs and remained so. I feel smaller meals are better. |
06-25-2008, 06:27 AM | #7 |
Yorkie Yakker | Daisy eats 3 times a day. She eats puppy chow as that is what she was on from breeder. She loves it, but will also eat anything that even remotely smells like food. She loves all kinds of fruit and we have to watch so she doesn't get ahold of grapes as my children love those. |
06-25-2008, 10:11 AM | #8 |
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| I fee Mia twice a day. 1/4 total kibble a day and 1 spoonful of wet in the morning, and one spoonful in the evening. There's always left over dry kibble in the bowl and she hardly goes back for more until I feed her in the evening.
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06-25-2008, 10:40 AM | #9 |
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| new puppy hungry? I don't feel like my 12 week puppy eats enough..about 6 bites every 3 hours. Its all dry puppy food and I think its too crunchy or something. She doesn't drink much either. She does pee and poop regularly (thank goodness)...do you think this is normal??? |
06-25-2008, 10:46 AM | #10 |
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| I free fed Welliness. I fed them in the morning canned Welliness or Inovia and at night. They always have a couple of snacks around 2:00 and then before bed. Mine hates kibble too. Really a waste of money. |
06-25-2008, 11:52 AM | #11 |
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| I'm starting to think I've got the craziest feeding schedule for mine. Max acts like he's starving ALL the time (that includes IMMEDIATELY after he eats). And I give him (and now Madison too) his canned food in the morning and evening....5 am and 5 pm. At exactly 9:30 in the morning, Max sits his little tush down in front of me and just stares until I notice him~ it's time for his "snack"...which is about 16 pieces of his dry food ...(I measure out 1/3 cup and just portion it out over the day to both dogs) and Madison gets 12 b/c his tummy is a little more sensitive. Then, the same thing at exactly 2 pm.....another snack is expected. They have a regular meal at 5 pm and then at 8 pm, they get another "snack" (Madison gets rice/turkey mixture). I was afraid I was feeding them (Max in particular) too much, but he hasn't gained any weight and Madison is doing great. I just don't understand how he can be hungry ALL the time! Maybe he's just bored
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06-25-2008, 07:53 PM | #12 |
Senior Yorkie Talker | Lola is really good about eating her dry food. The breeder had already transitioned her so that was nice. She's on the Eukanuba puppy formula. She never eats much so I let her free feed, even though I've heard your not supposed to. She never eats it all anyway. Never even comes close. She gets a teaspoon of wet food, Ceasars, as a treat once a day. She also gets six little yogurt treats which are given two at a time throughout the day. |
06-25-2008, 10:06 PM | #13 |
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| I feed Bella 3x/day, or rather I should say I try to. I give her the food but she never finishes what is in her bowl so it stays there in case she wants a snack later. She was on Puppy chow from the breeder, which I immediately switched to Science Diet (vet recommendation) and then I am switching her to Natural Balance after reading about all the different foods. She seems to like it better than the SD and picks out the Natural Balance out first and eats it and then eats her other food. Other than that she gets celery and baby carrots as treats. Although I may add in yogurt as a treat too. I had never heard of giving a dog yogurt until I read it on this board. |
06-25-2008, 10:57 PM | #14 |
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| I feed all of mine raw and they get it at 6pm, once a day.
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06-26-2008, 12:34 AM | #15 |
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| I have had Suzi nearly two months now. She was 3.5 lbs when at 9weeks old. I have been mixing her dry kibble , she was given purina puppy food by the breeder, so I had first mixed the dry with Science diet puppy food, then tried S.D canned mixed with white chicken meat. NOW she is getting A super Premiuim kibble by nature, with a little mix of her purina food. I free feed her. Suzi will have cheese, cottage cheese, rice, chicken, on occasion. SHE weighs now 4. 12. AND is 4 months old SHE loves to eat too
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