YorkieTalk.com Forums - Yorkshire Terrier Community - View Single Post

Yorkiemom1 · 03-25-2016, 01:30 PM

She will not fall over dead from starvation. She WILL eat....she has you jumping thru hoops and running in circles, trying to luck out and hit on some "perfect menu" that this baby has decided you will tear around 24/7, presenting her with hundreds of available foods....PLEASE! If she has no medical issues that demand she eat a prescription diet, decide what she likes and serve it and STAY with it, as long as she physically tolerates the food. I would be going back to whatever you initially changed it to because you have two dogs and they are on the same food etc....She WAS eating it, then YOU decided when she slowed down or stopped eating it that day, you would soak it, then you decided to hand feed it...she didnt ask you to do that and BELIEVE me, she will NOT drop over dead from starvation! She will eat what is served....quit catering to a 4 lb dogs whims! You have decided on a food, she initially enjoyed it..... feed it and she will eat it when she gets hungry. I promise you, she will not die of starvation before she eats, if it was a food she initially enjoyed and her system TOLERATED....

I think someone suggested you just change it until you find something she likes???!!! Dont even GO there! WHO is the pack leader in your household? If that pup is not making a paycheck, bring in funds to finance the living arrangements around there, not watching kids, not paying bills, not cooking, not cleaning, etc, YOU are the leader of the pack! Establish that to her! SHE does not dictate to you how YOU function!!! You decide on a food she was eating and enjoying, and that is what she gets!

03-25-2016, 01:30 PM	#4
Yorkiemom1 Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas Posts: 9,462	She will not fall over dead from starvation. She WILL eat....she has you jumping thru hoops and running in circles, trying to luck out and hit on some "perfect menu" that this baby has decided you will tear around 24/7, presenting her with hundreds of available foods....PLEASE! If she has no medical issues that demand she eat a prescription diet, decide what she likes and serve it and STAY with it, as long as she physically tolerates the food. I would be going back to whatever you initially changed it to because you have two dogs and they are on the same food etc....She WAS eating it, then YOU decided when she slowed down or stopped eating it that day, you would soak it, then you decided to hand feed it...she didnt ask you to do that and BELIEVE me, she will NOT drop over dead from starvation! She will eat what is served....quit catering to a 4 lb dogs whims! You have decided on a food, she initially enjoyed it..... feed it and she will eat it when she gets hungry. I promise you, she will not die of starvation before she eats, if it was a food she initially enjoyed and her system TOLERATED.... I think someone suggested you just change it until you find something she likes???!!! Dont even GO there! WHO is the pack leader in your household? If that pup is not making a paycheck, bring in funds to finance the living arrangements around there, not watching kids, not paying bills, not cooking, not cleaning, etc, YOU are the leader of the pack! Establish that to her! SHE does not dictate to you how YOU function!!! You decide on a food she was eating and enjoying, and that is what she gets! Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 03-25-2016 at 01:32 PM.