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Rocks7 · 06-01-2009, 11:43 AM

Hi everyone. My puppy (about 9 or 10 months) isn't crazy about her kibble. It's partly my fault because I kept giving her table scraps until I started reading this board. Now she gets no human food and just gets her Nutro puppy food, dry in the morning and a pouch of the wet food in the evening.

However, Puppy won't always eat the kibble, and sometimes she'll take a piece out and drop it on the bed (we have cats who try to eat the dog food so I feed her on the bed for now just to see how much she eats) --- anyway, she'll drop a piece on the bed, then nose it around and try to bury it under the covers. She can get manic about this.

She also sometimes takes a few bites of the wet food (also Nutro) and then run away from the bowl until I put her back in front of it, and then she resumes eating, walks away, I put her back at the bowl, repeat until she finishes the meal. I think maybe she's got some kind of doggy ADD since any noise distracts her from the bowl. Is this kind of stuff normal? Is she just trying to tell me she hates Nutro and wants something else? Or maybe her teeth hurt? They look OK.

Last night I had to hand feed the wet food to her once she stopped eating from the bowl, and she finished the entire meal that way.

06-01-2009, 11:43 AM	#1
Rocks7 YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: May 2009 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 8	This feeding behavior seems odd... Hi everyone. My puppy (about 9 or 10 months) isn't crazy about her kibble. It's partly my fault because I kept giving her table scraps until I started reading this board. Now she gets no human food and just gets her Nutro puppy food, dry in the morning and a pouch of the wet food in the evening. However, Puppy won't always eat the kibble, and sometimes she'll take a piece out and drop it on the bed (we have cats who try to eat the dog food so I feed her on the bed for now just to see how much she eats) --- anyway, she'll drop a piece on the bed, then nose it around and try to bury it under the covers. She can get manic about this. She also sometimes takes a few bites of the wet food (also Nutro) and then run away from the bowl until I put her back in front of it, and then she resumes eating, walks away, I put her back at the bowl, repeat until she finishes the meal. I think maybe she's got some kind of doggy ADD since any noise distracts her from the bowl. Is this kind of stuff normal? Is she just trying to tell me she hates Nutro and wants something else? Or maybe her teeth hurt? They look OK. Last night I had to hand feed the wet food to her once she stopped eating from the bowl, and she finished the entire meal that way.