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Holly_Wood · 09-04-2013, 10:10 AM

Hi there ...

I know there are other threads on this subject but cant find any right now. My little girl is 3 and a half months now. Got her at 12 weeks old and in the first few days swapped her from Purnia puppy kibble the "breeder" had her on to Royal Canin yorkie puppy kibble. She ate it for the first week on and off, some times took her a day to eat on serving. I started mixing a tea spoon of Wellness puppy canned food in and she'd eat it slowly through out the day and sometimes she'd eat her morning serving by about 2pm and then her evening serving by 9pm .... this lasted about a week.... so then mixed in plain yogurt and the same thing as the wet food for a week .... then tried a combination of wet food and or yogurt with the same results ...

No I feel like I'm throwing out more than she's eating ... mixing stuff in makes it go all grody and hard if it sits there all day and night .... as an experiment I put just wet food in the bowl and she nibbled on it and then it sat there all day ......

So the delema is do I try some other type of dry food? .. really don't want to have to do the buying different food dance for weeks on end ...

Or do I put a bowl of dry food down and then leave it there till she eats it ? she has no problem eating little jacks training treats and I'm sure she'd eat a bowl of them if she was allowed :-P .. she also will eat chicken jerky no problem ...

The other problem I have is if she does get a healthy treat that she like she will play with it and throw it about as Yorkies do and the black Lab here usually ends up eating it ... my wife just lets it happen if I'm not around to stop it getting snatched ... also in the morning the black lab has always gotten a raw marrow butcher bone ... so Holly gets one too ... its to big for her to get any of the goodness out of it and usually the black lab ends up with 99% of it ....

Anyway another long post ... my vet says I should just leave the food there and she'll eat it when she's hungry enough ...... why are they so darn picky this little devils ? :-) :-)

09-04-2013, 10:10 AM	#1
Holly_Wood Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Woodinville Posts: 101	Another "Yorkie not eating" thread Hi there ... I know there are other threads on this subject but cant find any right now. My little girl is 3 and a half months now. Got her at 12 weeks old and in the first few days swapped her from Purnia puppy kibble the "breeder" had her on to Royal Canin yorkie puppy kibble. She ate it for the first week on and off, some times took her a day to eat on serving. I started mixing a tea spoon of Wellness puppy canned food in and she'd eat it slowly through out the day and sometimes she'd eat her morning serving by about 2pm and then her evening serving by 9pm .... this lasted about a week.... so then mixed in plain yogurt and the same thing as the wet food for a week .... then tried a combination of wet food and or yogurt with the same results ... No I feel like I'm throwing out more than she's eating ... mixing stuff in makes it go all grody and hard if it sits there all day and night .... as an experiment I put just wet food in the bowl and she nibbled on it and then it sat there all day ...... So the delema is do I try some other type of dry food? .. really don't want to have to do the buying different food dance for weeks on end ... Or do I put a bowl of dry food down and then leave it there till she eats it ? she has no problem eating little jacks training treats and I'm sure she'd eat a bowl of them if she was allowed :-P .. she also will eat chicken jerky no problem ... The other problem I have is if she does get a healthy treat that she like she will play with it and throw it about as Yorkies do and the black Lab here usually ends up eating it ... my wife just lets it happen if I'm not around to stop it getting snatched ... also in the morning the black lab has always gotten a raw marrow butcher bone ... so Holly gets one too ... its to big for her to get any of the goodness out of it and usually the black lab ends up with 99% of it .... Anyway another long post ... my vet says I should just leave the food there and she'll eat it when she's hungry enough ...... why are they so darn picky this little devils ? :-) :-) __________________ Holly ~~~ Zadie Bug ~~ Bruce the Pug ~~ Woody the Australian Kelpie (My first love)