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Originally Posted by Bamboo15  I totally understand, I definitely hate to see mine not eating too. With my first yorkie he was very overweight and the vet gave me prescription diet food. He wouldn't eat it and he wouldn't eat any dog food so I would give him table scraps and then the vet told me when he gets hungry enough he will eat, he won't let himself starve. And she was right, I stopped with the table food and when he was hungry enough he ate the prescription and got back down the weight he was supposed to be.
As far as my boyfriend's mom's dog...the issue she took him to the nurtusitionist for was digestive so I'm not sure it will be much help but this is what they told her. She wanted to prepare her own food for him so they told her no red meat at all and too much chicken would also hurt his stomach. They told her she can boil some vegetables and also can give him quinoa for protein. But now the issue she's having is that he seems to be allergic to something (our guess is the quinoa) because he has hot spots. Also, when he sneezes quinoa goes everywhere.
As an alternative to the nurtisitiknist, can you ask your vet for advice? You might have to pay an office visit fee but I doubt it will be anywhere near $300 and I know my vet actually knows a lot about nutrition herself. |
Thanks for the advice. I will be speaking to my vet at his next appointment, which is the week after Christmas. I agree with you, I need to be more patient. I keep telling myself I will only feed him twice today like usually but then in the morning when he just sniffs it and walks away I get sad and try again a few hours later by either adding more wet food or parmesan cheese to entice him to eat. What happens is he licks the dry food clean and then spits it out.
