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Originally Posted by kjcmsw  I'd say she has you very well trained. Find a food (as healthy as possible, one that doesn't upset her stomach and she'll initially eat) then that's it. Put the food down she'll eat when she gets hungry. It's amazing their desire for survival will kick in after a day or two.
Repeat: always told my kids: you have two choices for dinner: take it or leave it...applies well to dogs too. |
Oh I agree, at first she literaly wouldn't touch the food after a few days even if she did skip a meal and at one point she wouldn't even eat boiled chicken so I actually think pretty much every kibble I've tried so far gave her a tummy ache. Orijen was the one she ate for the longest and she did have alot of gas on it, so I think it bothered her and I didn't realize it and that's why she eventually refused it. No pickyness at all now though since I found the canned food that her tummy is fine with (she would refuse the other canned food I tried after a few days too)- she gobbles up every meal
. So, although I do agree with you, sometimes you do have to trust what the dog is trying to tell you
. Once I do find a kibble that she can eat without a tummy issue, I'll be sticking with it and I doubt that if it doesn't bother her she would be picky about it, I honestly think that was the problem all along.
It's great too if you only have 1 dog and can just leave food down for a picky eater and they'll eat when hungry, but I have 2 other dogs here who would gobble it up as soon as I walked away lol.