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Originally Posted by Cinq1964  OK, this is morning 2. Have tried hand feeding a meaty bone. Have tried feeding small pieces of meat. He still will not eat. I have had a couple of responses and trying these suggestions. I may just be a worry wart, but my family is making me feel guilty for Nolee not eating. |
My Dane boy that I adopted at 2-1/2 was raised on awful food.
I started him on raw the day I brought him home. He didn't want to eat so I just kept giving the food to him but he really didn't know what to do with it.
After time passed, I finally gave him some ground meat (raw). He snarfed it down. He ate that for a couple of days and then I put some meat bones in with it. He had no problem eating it then.
I think he just had to get the "taste" of raw in his mouth to realize how good it was. He also had to learn how to chew the bones and meat. He seriously did not know how to chew something that wasn't a little, crunchy thing.
I know some people are more of the hard knock view and say to keep giving the same piece of meat over and over. Well, I think all dogs are not the very same and have different needs at different times. I think whatever it takes to get them eating raw is great - just so they do eventually move to the prey diet.