Wow! My Pookie does all those things too. She'll look at her food, then walk away. I put down wet food and she'll walk away from that too, so I have to lure her by holding out the spoon which she'll lick, or by putting bits on the floor leading over to the dish. I have to use a saucer to feed her because she won't eat anything out of her bowl.
The funny thing is that we can use our cat to get her to eat. As soon as the cat heads towards Pookie's food, she'll go right over and bark at her and then when we take the cat away, she'll eat her food, as if to make sure the cat doesn't get any of it.
My husband thinks it's nuts to go to so much trouble to get her to eat, but I worry about hypoglycemia. DH thinks that she should just eat on her own like other dogs. He thinks I'm spoiling her. Wait until I show him this forum. Ha! |