[njimko]

You might have seen some posts from me regarding my 1yr picky eater. He has always been picky since I got him at 10 wks. I tried originally to get him to eat dry and really no success. I tried many diff kinds of wet foods (Merrick, Wellness, Science Diet), etc. Everytime we started to get his food out he would kinda hide and then come over to the bowl only to sniff it and walk away. He would eat very little, we'd put the food away for later, take it our again and re-heat and nothing, then very very late he'd eat.

Everytime I'd buy a new brand of food he'd slop it up all on the 1st day and then the next day not be interested anymore and I was back to square one. This went on for months and months.

Finally I bought Freshpet Vital Grain Free Slice n Serve Roll (chicken, beef, salmon and egg). The first day he ate it all up. And he's been doing the same thing everyday for a whole week. I am flabbergasted, it's like I have a different Yorkie. You have to keep it refrigerated and everytime I open the fridge to feed him he just stares and follows me until I put it down. I am so thrilled that I wanted to share this for those of you who have picky eaters there is hope. You just have to be persistent and hopefully try enough foods until you find what they like.

Now the only issue I have (which is kinda silly) is that he woofs his food down so so so fast. I cut the slice in tiny pieces because I don't want him to be eating and swallowing whole pieces so fast. I've been timing him and he slops up his bowl between 1 to 2 mins, it's more like a minute and a half. Is this too fast? I've heard about slow feeding bowls but not sure if this is normal.