 Not eating puppy food
Hi there ...
I have not been on here for a long long time ... My little fluff ball is getting all grown up, she has been spayed and getting close to being 10 months old .... she has been the biggest stinker in the eating department and went through kibble after kibble after kibble as well as soft food in cans ... finally found a small breed food by Nurto that she would eat but it wasn't puppy variety... she would only eat is at night though and sometimes I felt like she was starving .. I'd give her turkey necks (cut into pieces for her size) and she'd munch on them for a bit then the big dog would end up getting them. The big dog (a black lab) has been getting a butcher bone (marrow bone) every morning since she was 6 months old and Holly will always try to get it off her (the lab protects it angrily) so we would give her one and she'd just lick it a bit and then go back to trying to get the big dogs one ..... so one day I just poked all the bone marrow out of the bone and broke it up on a plate and she actually eats that and she now has that as her morning routine .... we switched the big dogs food to Royal Canin Maxi Spayed/Neutered formula and Holly just kept chasing after any piece that fell or trying to steal pieces from the big dogs bowl ... to save the blood bath that could happen (really so we did have to listen to the big dog growling and complain) we gave Holly 3 pieces and she would crunch them up as the pieces are pretty large ... fast forward a number of months and she's still on the bone marrow, big dogs food routine but now she has about 6 pieces in the morning and a hand full in the evening ... we ran out of the nutro so I bought the same brand but in puppy formula and she wont touch it ...
Every morning my wife and I have a fresh fruit and veggie smoothy/juice thing and both dogs get a bit of apple, a bit of cucumber and sometimes some other type of fruit or veggie ... they both get some boiled egg .. big dog gets 3/4 and Holly gets a 1/4 ....
So all that long long long story to ask is it ok to have her just continue with the current routine with her not having "real" puppy food .. I do leave the puppy kibble in a bowl on the couch (its on the couch because the second we turn our back the Lab eats it) and every so often she'll nibble on it .... The vets say she's in wonderful health and she's grown bigger than we expected (about 8 1/2 pounds) so it doesn't seam as though she's lacking ...
Thanks for any advise and sorry again for a long winded way to get to a questions
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