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Originally Posted by Foxsha75  I am having the same issue with my yorkies (Pickles and Snickers) I had them on Blue puppy food and they liked it for a little while. Then one day they stopped eating it. I tried using the food as a game (tossing it to them and they would eat it) but that only worked a little while too. Then someone told me to use wet food so I incorporated Nutro wet puppy food with the Blue and they ate it for a little while....sigh.
Now I am at wits end. I want to mix the wet/dry food together (keep teeth clean, other nutrients) but they are not budging. I dont want them to starve, but I dont know what to do. I even put their food in little saucers thinking the bowl was too big!! Any tips? Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Shanesta, Pickles and Snickers |
My original post was only less than a week ago, and now, Alice is practically gobbling up her food
I took everone's advise and stopped making a big deal out of it. Canned food definatly helps with her, at the very least it gets her started on her meal and entices her to look in the bowl and taste (I'm using Evenger's and she likes the beef and liver). She does eat the dry food (Orijen puppy) really well now too, but sometimes I have to kind of spread it out on the kitchen floor but then she vaccuums it up lol.
What I did was just put the bowl down and I didn't let her walk away. If she wouldn't start eating (that only happened first day of trying this) I'd sit down and put a few pieces of kibble with the canned food stuck to it on the floor. If she tried to take 1 piece and take off with it somewhere else, I blocked her and made her stay there to eat it. It seems like it was just a matter of "training" almost to make her understand that she was expected to eat what she was given when I give it
. Now, a few days later I have no problem at all, she knows it's meal time and eat now or don't eat. I have her on the same strict schedual as my other pets twice a day instead of constantly trying many times a day to get her to eat a few pieces (can't even believe I was that gullable lol) She really did have me trained and fooled lol. i know some people like free-freeding but for Alice, it was all about the schedual and getting her used to it
Good luck and try the Evenger's canned, it's a really mushy consistancy which works well for mixing and Alice loved it from the first time