What kind of eater is your Yorkie?

[roxies_mom]

Originally Posted by txrosegirl

well miss buffey is my picky eater 'nuff said

bentley is my piggy and the reason i cannot free feed - which i would really like to be able to do. he INHALES his food and basically chokes on it, spits it back up and swallows it again . i have since started hand feeding him one piece at a time which is a PITA but at least he is chewing (sometimes! lol) and not choking

bree is a funny eater. she takes one itty bitty piece at a time, runs over to a different place to eat it (sometimes her bed, sometimes across the room, where her heart desires right then), eats it and runs back for another

none of my kids are food agressive. i started right away touching them, brushing them, taking their food away while they were eating, putting my fingers in their dish, etc. i never want to have a food aggressive dog. each will let the others eat out of their dish with no problems

The vet told me once that if you have an animal that likes to inhale their food (I had a cat that would do this) and causes them throw up to put it on something like a cookie sheet or flat surface. Not piled up. I guess it makes them slow down and they have to work a little harder to get it. Not sure if that works but it's worth a shot.

[carsou]

Juicy is definitely not a picky eater she would eat anything!! Her weird quirk is that she takes like 10 pieces of out the bowl one by one and puts them on her mat then will eat them one by one and then starts the process over.

[ARCHIE]

Buddy is every one's dream.
You put the food down and it's gone in minutes. He does a low burp
and on to play.
He get's fed 6:30 am and 6:00 pm. I home cook and mix it with his
kibble. We overcame food aggression. He now looks at me 1/2 way threw
to mix it again with my hands so he can finish. Every feeding, everytime.
I feel sorry for those of you who have such picky eater's, always worrying
if they are eating enough.

[bjh]

Originally Posted by roxies_mom

The vet told me once that if you have an animal that likes to inhale their food (I had a cat that would do this) and causes them throw up to put it on something like a cookie sheet or flat surface. Not piled up. I guess it makes them slow down and they have to work a little harder to get it. Not sure if that works but it's worth a shot.

That sounds like an interesting idea. I don't have any that scarf food but I do have some that could stand to lose some weight.

I have question for those that have yorkies that inhale their food. Would it be possible to find a healthy food they are not as crazy about or would they still inhale their food? Sometimes I wonder if I am not trying to hard to please my dogs offering them things they really love. Maybe I am encouraging them to eat too much. My vet gave me a sample of Canidae Grain Free Salmon Meal Formula and my dogs totally turned there nose up at it. I just looked at the analysis and it has 40% protein. That sure seems high. My babies have never seemed to like food with fish in them.

I love hearing all these cute stories about everyone's fur babies.

[voodoochyl]

Buddy is about six pounds I think, but a little long. He has had plenty of blood work done because the doctor thought he may have had a shunt (but that has been a while). He may just be skinny. When it is time to see the vet again, I will make sure to ask about his weight. Thanks...

[mscat]

When Suzi was a puppy she was more quirky. She use to take food out of her bowl and and eat it on the carpet one at a time. I would find kibble all over the place. LOL. Now she eats it "like a big girl" She burps after she eats too. I give her canned food now, and she loves that . But, she tends to eat too fast. Suzi is not a picky eater, and loves food. She even even eats the dropped cocketiel bird seeds. Suzi loves her treats , and does do anything unusual with them. With a bully stick, she will hide it . I don't even know where she places that. If I find it, she will hide it again somewhere else. I wonder what would happen if we got anther Yorkie? LOL .

[Potter]

Pao's eating quirks is being really picky although he has been doing well on homecooking. Even with homecooking, he has his quirks. He doesn't like beef and most fish that dogs can eat. Out of all the fishes that he can eat, he only likes salmon and will only tolerate it not more than 2 meals at a time. The food that he'd eat I can count with my fingers and the food he won't eat, that list is pretty long. When you see the way he picks his food, its a wonder...he puts his nose very close to the food and he picks bit by bit the food that he likes even if it is all blended up.

When we used to try to feed him kibbles when he was younger, we had to resort to using a small soft toy to imitate another pup to compete food with him in his food bowl and he'd kinda eat or we'd toss one kibble at a time as if it is his toy and he'll pounce at it before he eats it one by one. For whatever reason, he doesn't like canned food either no matter what type of brand.

[Britster]

Well, Jackson is picky but at the same time, he's not. It took a while to find a kibble he liked but he loves Merrick's Before Grain. The thing with him is - sometimes he just doesn't feel like eating. But when he does, he SCARFS it down. I don't even think he chews it sometimes, it's ridiculous, lol.

Our schedule currently is... he gets kibble mixed in with wet food around 8:30am every morning. He eats that all up within 10 minutes usually. Breakfast is definitely his favorite meal of the day! Then I'll usually fill up his bowl with more kibble around lunch time and he'll nibble on it during the day and then around 6pm, he will start chomping down. He pretty much set his own schedule after breakfast time. At breakfast now though- I fill his bowl and make him sit before he gets it!