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YorkieLover9 · 03-11-2005, 08:36 AM

I just want to thank you for saying what you said. We get so wrapped up in all we read about our babies and hypoglycemia, that when they don't eat, we freak out. Again, last night my little Beau turned his nose up at his dry and his wet/dry that I put out and I think he's starving so I feed him hard boiled eggs smushed up and a little bite of this and a little bite of that, next thing I know he is moping around, not playing looking wobbly, so again I panic, give him some karo syrup thinking his blood sugar is low. Well it turns out, he was sick to his stomach from all the snacking I let him do. He threw up and after that was his old self, playing and running around the house.

So, this morning, I did his dry and his wet/dry, heated in the microwave for 8 seconds, put it down, he sniffed it and walked away. I said you are just gonna have to eat it little one. I caught him a little while later at his food bowl eating the dry. I guess he realized he wasn't getting anything else so he better like what he has.

So the part about treating them just like any other dog does play a part. I know we tend to pamper them because they are small and all we read, but I think (well at least me) need to remember that they are a dog and we have to treat them as such and just use some common sense when raising them. Heck, I raised two kids to adulthood and I think this is harder than they ever were, LOL.

03-11-2005, 08:36 AM	#11
YorkieLover9 YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 556	Debi S I just want to thank you for saying what you said. We get so wrapped up in all we read about our babies and hypoglycemia, that when they don't eat, we freak out. Again, last night my little Beau turned his nose up at his dry and his wet/dry that I put out and I think he's starving so I feed him hard boiled eggs smushed up and a little bite of this and a little bite of that, next thing I know he is moping around, not playing looking wobbly, so again I panic, give him some karo syrup thinking his blood sugar is low. Well it turns out, he was sick to his stomach from all the snacking I let him do. He threw up and after that was his old self, playing and running around the house. So, this morning, I did his dry and his wet/dry, heated in the microwave for 8 seconds, put it down, he sniffed it and walked away. I said you are just gonna have to eat it little one. I caught him a little while later at his food bowl eating the dry. I guess he realized he wasn't getting anything else so he better like what he has. So the part about treating them just like any other dog does play a part. I know we tend to pamper them because they are small and all we read, but I think (well at least me) need to remember that they are a dog and we have to treat them as such and just use some common sense when raising them. Heck, I raised two kids to adulthood and I think this is harder than they ever were, LOL.