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02-02-2009, 08:04 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: New York
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| Rocky's eating habits Rocky has changed his eating habits a little. I give him a 1/4 of a cup of food in the morning and 1/4 cup of food at night. In the morning he does this new thing where he doesn't eat it at all or has a few bites. At night I will add a little more to the 1/4 cup because I am afraid he isn't eating enough. He will eat all of it at night. Not all at once but he will finish it over time. It is rare if he doesn't finish it. If he doesn't finish it there is usually only a couple bites left. Is it ok that he isn't eating in the morning? Is he getting enough food? He is getting neutered on Friday so I am going to ask the vet about it. TIA |
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02-02-2009, 08:15 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Brunswick, Georgia. On the beach!
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| My 3 are as pickey as pickey can be. I used to make this grand to-do about their meals. I would home cook beef or chicken and mix it with vegetables. Anything to get them to eat. They gobbled it up at first, and then they got to the point where they wouldn't eat it. There was always kibble down for them during the time I was home cooking. I figured out that their little tummies are tiny. It doesn't take much to fill them up. Mine are grazers. They eat a little in the morning, but not much. They like to nibble all day, just a few bites here and there. I just make sure they are eating a high quality grain free kibble. Buy the best you can, and it will be chocked full of everything Rocky needs. What are you feeding him, by the way?
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02-02-2009, 08:20 AM | #3 | |
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02-02-2009, 06:54 PM | #4 |
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| Mine does that once she's grown bored of her once "new" food. Rather than changing the brand all the time and encouraging her pickiness, we just try making eating "fun" for her. I didn't want her to hold out all day waiting for yummier food then stocking up just before bed while barely grazing during the day. Every morning, the hubby would train/treat/play with her using her Orijen (the one she's most reluctant to eat and only eats when she's desperate). She'd eat anywhere from 10-40 pieces (they're pretty big, round, and dense as far as kibbles go--almost the size of Mentos but less thick). Sometimes she goes on her own to her food dish and grazes a little bit before he gets around to feeding her. During the day, she'd snub her kibbles unless there's a new one mixed in. Generally around 3pm, I can get her to eat some more. And the hubby tries feeding her dinner of Orijen at 7pm. While we take her out in the evenings, we're extra generous when we give her "treat" rewards, which are actually "real food" (NB Potato & Duck small bites) and she eats it happily. We have stopped feeding her cheerios. This way, we know she's filled with real food and she doesn't know it. But I still give her 100% natural dried salmon jerky on occassion however, they seem to have gotten "more dry" and hard since the packaging design changed so I've given less. She also doesn't care much for the NB Vegetarian formula I recently bought to add to her Orijen. Other than her first serving of it where she'd eat that and skip over the Orijen mixed in, she has treated it as the lesser evil of the two so she won't eat unless she's hungry before bed. Normally, when we get home from her evening outing, she will still eat more kibbles before bed. When she was on Orijen and Petcurean's now! turkey and duck for puppies, she did a LOT better. She'd eat that more willingly on her own throughout the day. This lasted for a couple of months until I had to buy a new bag and they had a new formula! Couldn't find the same one! They added salmon in the mix, but not sure what else changed since she started reacting to it (paw licking and scratching). I stopped feeding that as soon as I got her Natural Balance LID potato duck. It was either her food or the Cloud Star Buddy Rinse I started using on her (only once, and don't want to risk it again!) since both were changes that happened at the same time. |
02-02-2009, 07:03 PM | #5 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Sahuarita, Arizona
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| So glad to hear I am not the only one to worry about this. My 10 wk old Zeus eats very little sometimes. I try to feed him or give him water and he just turns his head away. I figure I will just go by growth and see how much he is gaining in between vet visits. He already weighs three pounds and is off the growth chart. |
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