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Originally Posted by kalina82  i haven't read all of this but i just wanted to let you know what can happen if you put her on home cooked chicken and rice diet.
i rescued a 3 month old malnurished poodle puppy with two broken elbows, a curved (possibly broken earlier) tibia and a horrible luxating patella in her left hind. She basically had mushy bones because her previous owners were only giving her beef and rice, with a few pieces of kibble. I'm not saying this could happen to all puppies but it did with mine. THe lack of a good puppy food resulted in really soft breakable bones. Since i've had her she has been on a premium puppy kibble and has filled out nicely.
If your puppy doesn't like the food your giving her i would try another premium puppy food like innova, wellness, canidae, nature's variety, california natural, solid gold. i prefer wellness and solid gold for puppies. |
Good to know! As far as I know she was weaned from milk and ever since then she's eaten this brand of dry food. She's eaten it as is, nothing added, nothing altered to it. So this mini food adventures, trying to get her to eat, should have been the first times she's had any people food.
I'm not trying to homecook her, I'm just trying to get her to
eat! If I can entice her to eat her kibble with dog friendly human food than that's what I'll do. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be a magical cure. I tried some milk, in some ground up kibble of hers. That didn't go over amazingly, but she did eat a little bit. I also got some food/treat at the store that's been nicknamed "puppy crack" well she certainly liked it, for a little, but even that she snubbed after a while. So she ate between 1/4-1/2 of one meal's worth of a serving tonight. This is what's scaring me, because she wouldn't really eat breakfast and wouldn't eat lunch. So this is the most she's eaten ALL day and it's almost nothing!
I'd love to get her on "good" dog food but I can't imagine being able to transition her to any other food! If she isn't really eating her own "old" food how can I transition her to new food!?
I'm getting a bit desperate here, I don't want my dog to starve! I don't want her to be malnourished. I don't want her to get hypoglycemic! And I certainly don't want my dog to struggle anymore or get sick!