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Old 03-17-2008, 05:55 PM   #14
hha
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Originally Posted by yorkiegirlnjack View Post
Hi,

Are you trying to get your Yorkie to switch to dry food for better dental hygiene/easier dispensing&storage/cost?

If you really want to eat dry food, you can mix a little chicken broth or water into the dry food. Let it stand for a few minutes and it will become moist. Once your Yorkie is eating this regularly, mix a little less chicken broth or water into the dry food week by week until you are comfortable with the consistency. On another note: you're going to have to mix whatever you're giving your Yorkie now with what ever dry food you want to start giving her for a while also, because you don't want to make abrupt changes in the diet. That could cause your Yorkie to have digestive problems.

So in short: 1st week

1. start with 3/4 of whatever moist food you use
2. add 1/4 of the new dry food that you will add chicken broth or water


2nd week

1. 1/2 whatever moist food
2. 1/2 dry food mixed with chicken broth or water

3rd week

1. 3/4 dry food mixed with chicken broth/water
2. 1/4 whatever moist food

4th week

1. all dry food mixed with chicken broth/water

5th week and so on adding less and less chicken broth/water

This is tedious yes, but if your Yorkie is picky like you say, the pooch won't fall for anything unless it's subtle.
Chicken broth is salty, I just add water and let it sit out for about 20 minutes, that will soften it...you can scramble an egg in the microwave and put a little bit of that in with it also
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