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09-05-2008, 02:19 PM | #1 |
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| My puppy WON'T EAT!!! HELP ME!! ok my puppy is 2 months old and he weighs 2 pounds hes so picky he wont eat his eukanoba(didnt spell it right) dry food or wet food. so i went and bought him royal canine puppy food which is dry..and i mixed wit sum gerber baby food turkey&gravy and he ate the baby food but picked on the dry food. how do i get him to eat the dry food? i dont want him to get use to the baby food. HELP please i need sum tips. And yesterday i boild sum chicken shredded it & poured sum of the broth on top of the dry food & added sum shredded chicken & he ate only the chicken. lol..i then handed him sum dry food by mouth & he ate like 10 lil pieces how do i get him to eat more?.. |
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09-05-2008, 02:23 PM | #2 |
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| Mine wouldnt eat the hard food when they were babies either so I gave them canned but left the hard food out and eventally they started eating the hard also
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09-05-2008, 02:29 PM | #3 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | A two pound puppy doesn't need very much food, you don't want him to eat more than he needs. Dog and children learn that they can hold out a while for something better. If you were given a plate of green beans, and you knew, if you didn't eat it your mom would give you some ice cream and brownies, wouldn't you hold off? Your puppy has learned this. I would not feed the dog baby food, human baby food sometimes has ingrediants that isn't good for dogs, such as onions. I think you should free feed your dog, in other words have a little food available at all times. Put 1/4 cup of dry food is his bowl in the morning, and when that gets low, add another 1/4 cup of food. A tablespoon is a lot of food for them, it may not look like he's not eating much, but really is. Ten pieces is pretty good, and probably all his tummy can handle at one time.
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09-06-2008, 11:43 AM | #4 |
Yorkie Yakker | my dogs were like that too as puppies, I would just hand feed them bits until they wouldn't eat anymore. For some reason they would eat more if I fed it to them bit by bit, although it is tedious. You probably shouldn't try to coax him into eating by giving him treats, as he'll only get more used to it and continue to refuse to eat dry food. Eventually I'm sure he'll eat the dry food if that is his only option, as my dogs learned to do. |
09-06-2008, 11:48 AM | #5 |
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| One thing you can do is to use a blender or a rolling pin to roughly grind up the dry food. Then add a little chicken broth to make it a little softer. As he eats this and grows a little, leave out less and less of the broth and he will soon be eating the dry food
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09-06-2008, 12:34 PM | #6 |
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| My Hot Rod was like that. I would take a meat tenderizer and smash up his Innova dry and he would eat it for awhile. I had enough food to open my own store. Ironically now, he eats it instead of his "adult" dry food, he just turned 1, since we got Maggie, our 4 mo old yorkie. Good luck.
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09-06-2008, 05:34 PM | #7 |
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| I've Had The Same Issues I've gone thru like 6-8 + types of foods for my Yorkie. Dry & wet, but mostly dry. Their stomachs aren't big in general and perhaps he/she is full. Then again, it could be he/she doesn't like the food. That is what happened with mine. He does like this "Royal Cainine", and he's only eaten once today...not including his treats. Treats are food and if your feeding him treats, he's getting full on them. You could also take him to the Vet and have test run to see if there are any issues going on. Also, he could be having a bad day as my Vet told me when he wasn't eating. We as humans have moments we don't eat much and he/she could be experiencing the same. Good Luck. |
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