Thank you to everyone for you wonderful and thoughtful responses. This helps a great deal and will be valuable to having accurate information rather than hearsay.
Miao, might you be like to discuss and elaborate on the feeding since you are experiencing some of the same issues as my client?
I have a few thoughts/questions and I would appreciate your response to them, whether you agree or disagree- you have real time w/ the Yorkie where I am working on book info?
If she is not overly active in her eating in the morning could she not see this as something to look forward to?
I am stating this might be her natural genetic behavior, but one likely possibility is that she may not like it very much and only eats when she is really hungry, later in the day.
Also for the time when Daddy feeds her, she may get really excited and her behavior reflects this.
If you would indulge me with what you were feeding her and what you are feeding her now, and her age and weight?
One thing I can offer is that if her bowel movement times have changed, this could very well be the shift in foods. I can provide more data on this if you care to have it.
What if you changed her food... try and experiment and see if she gets excited about eating and if she eats it all in the AM?
I feed raw to my dogs, so I don't have suggestions other than what I know top the lists as the top food brands, but you could try putting down some chicken breast in the AM and see if she eats it all, this could provide some good info.
Thanks Miao.
Thanks again everyone!
Doug
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