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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  I would not be slathering her food in nutrical that's not what it's for. Have you looked into something like balance it where you can home cook for her with one of their recipes and use their supplement? Human food should only make up 10% of their diet and the rest should be dog food. If you give them to much human food they are not going to eat their dog food I mean why would they. Have you tried adding some coconut oil? Or maybe soaking the food in hot water and then draining to make it soft? I have found most picky eaters LOVE Royal Canin. |
She needs the paste. 3-5 times a week, and it's for these situations. Especially since she refuses to eat until we find what she wants that day. Because she does this, she lost one of the two pounds we needed her to gain. I use it to keep her sugar from crashing.
The medically approved boiled diet is from my vet, and it consists of quite a few items. I only stick to three veggies- not all 3 at once- just the ones we tried and her stomach was fine with. when I make her batches. It's quite an undertaking to make, and when I DID make a huge batch to freeze, she decided she was done with that particular food.
She came to us on royal canin. We had her on yorkshire formula, after the mini kibbles she stopped wanting. The yorkshire formula was the very first time we discovered something wasn't right. It gave her nasty gas, that even shocked the vet- it was loud, then she got really backed up. So when we switched back, she wouldn't eat it. Then we tried the alternate version of I/D and no, that wasn't even a nibble. I'm seeing that a lot of them don't like the taste of that one.
Yes. She's had water in her food forever. Fromms, the only dog food besides I/D that has been cleared- I'll look into healthy pet jk!-she flatly refuses to eat it with any water. Nor parmesan cheese, and I'm almost desperate enough to use the paste to entice her to eat it, as she's not very happy I'm not giving her anything else any more. She's very, very, stubborn and she's not too happy right now. The paste at this point is a necessity while dh out-stubborns her. Coconut oil is a good suggestion, and she loves it. It might do the trick to get her to try it. Last night consisted of me following her around with the I/d food. for 20 minutes. While she huffed that all the doors were closed and stairs closed off- and daughter blocking her from hiding under the table.
As for the treats, I'm going to stick with the little peanut butter on her cheerios in the kong treat, or some nilla wafers. I don't like seeing her vomit when I introduce any other treat, with the exception of Wiley's buck clucks.
Ann, I almost want to tell the vet where to shove it and go back to the raw diet.
. she always ate that. Makes me sad. It didn't even make her sick.