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Originally Posted by Sarahleigh112  We have an 11 week old Yorkiepoo at home and after reading around on the site a little bit I've found lots of great information but I'm still curious and have a few questions.
The day after Jax got home he refused to eat anything we gave him and it got to the point where the hypoglycemia started to kick in so we brought him to the vet right away and our vet did all the blood work and found that his WBC was high so he was given some antibiotics and a shot of glucosse for his blood sugar. She gave us a special type of food so we could syrnge feed him and after that we got him to eat white rice with a chicken baby food as recommended and now he's beome such a picky eater.. the only thing we've been able to get him to eat is Iam's wet food (chicken flavored) and trying to mix in some kibbles to get him use to eating hard food. He will take the kibbles out of his bowl and eat the wet food.
I guess what I'm looking for is what kind of food would be recommended for those picky eaters? and when should we start the dry food?
I know all about the mixing in old with new and such I just don't know what to get him.
Also, for treats he's been eating the flavored milkbones but I've read on here that they're not such a great choice. What do you guys recommend for treats?
We were letting him chew rawhides but he started getting this coughing/gagging problem so we though maybe the rawhides were causing this. We ended up going to the vet for that and he has some kind of respitory problem so he's on antibiotics for that now as well but we've still chosen to refrain from rawhides.
Any info would be much appreciated!  |
The breeders that we got tootsie from had her on dry kibbles at 12 weeks when we got her??? So we just stuck with that! Our problem was she was constantly itching so we took her to the vet and he told us she had allergies!! I believe there are some recent posts about premium dog foods!!
We have been feeding tootsie "Natural Balance" but recently found out that they use Ethoxyquin!! Some of my YT friends have recommended Innova, Evo, and California Natural...We went out yesterday and looked for one of these three foods and ended up with "Now" Natural Grain Free because we couldn't find any of the others in a puppy formula unless it was special ordered...
As for the coughing/gagging problem? Tootsie started doing that about 3 days ago??? She has been kinda lazy and not herself!!! I guess we will have to make another trip to the vet!!!