Eating Bowl problem Hi, I have a 3.5 pound Yorkie. She is very sensitive as all of them are. She is scared of her eating and drinking bowls. The ones she has now are 5 inch in diameter (with 0.6 inch trim included) It is the smallest bowl I found. She is still afraid. She might be afraid because of the trim maybe. But also the color is pink. You think the color repels her? She is 3 and a half years old and still eating from my hand two or three times a day. What are your suggestions? Any suggestions where I can look for alternative bowls. Thank you so much... |
I have a 3.75 pound yorkie and a 4 pound Biewer. I bought several types of tiny bowls that they both refused to eat from. I finally put their food on a 5" flat plastic plate - success!!! For the past 3 years have used nothing but plastic disposable plates. I do use them for as long as possible before I toss them. It can get expensive, but they love them and gobble their food up. Call me a crazy dog person :D |
Piper eats from a shallow, stainless steel, oval-shaped dish; prior to that she ate from a shallow, ceramic bowl (ear-marked for cats). Giving her a meal in/on anything else is a no go! It's a tricky business this feeding thing...!! |
My Riley is 3.5# & not a great eater & also has issues with bowls. He has issues with stainless I think due to his reflection and/or the noise it may make when he eats (he doesn't wear a collar where it clangs but the eating process does cause "sounds".) With him, I think it has to do more with the rims on bowls/putting his head "inside" the bowl. I could be wrong, but that is what it seems like to me. He sometimes won't eat if I am not in the same room with him/can't watch me while he eats. (I think he is just afraid he will miss out on something. Lol) I too have to hand-feed him sometimes if it has been too long since he ate last. I am going to try a kitty saucer next. |
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I had similar problems and finally bought a baby dish online that is flatish but has 2 divided sections and my little girl is very happy with it. She will sometimes hold out for being hand fed just because she likes it I think.... if it comes to that, I'll hand feed a couple of pieces and then she will carry on. |
today I put her food in a very small tea bag holder dish. Even that she can’t approach But she drank water from her bowl. Very small amount though :( I am having really hard time :( |
Try putting it on a paper towel. I have one that will only eat her food that is on a paper towel. |
I sort of have this same problem. I use a Corelle brand dish. It is really small. I think they call it a vegetable side dish. I also use a puzzle feeder. I think it is designed to give treats, but food works great in it. It also gives them a mental workout. This is Lexi's preferred way to eat. She seems to like working for her food. I can put food in a small dish and it will just sit there all day. If I transfer it to a puzzle, she gobbles it right up. I also put her kibble or dehydrated raw food in a plastic bottle. She loves to play with that bottle and when the food falls out she loves it. The crazy things we do! |
Ginger will not eat from a bowl either. She only eats from a plate or the floor. |
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I have actually resulted to spoon feeding her. this is the only way she will eat |
Thank you everyone. I will try all or the suggestions suggested by you :) |
lol my girl will drink from her bowl but normally she prefers being handfed :p not that she's scared or anything, just prefers it >_<;; We still have the larger steel bowls from when we had our two other JRs been thinking of getting her something smaller for her food. |
Try a kitty dish as they are shallow compared to dog bowls. I have the stainless kitty bowl with the blue rubber skid ring on the bottom from Petco & mine do very well with them. I do have 1 that prefers a plate. I bought a saucer from Goodwill & he loves that little plate. Dogs do not like for their faces to be covered by deep dishes as it makes them feel vulnerable so the more shallow the better. |
I use shallow, small tart bowls for 3 of them...but for Marcel I actually use a totally flat, square coaster bc I don't think he likes the sound of his ID tag clanking against the dish sides...with a coaster, there is no side/lip - so no clanking really. He likes it MUCH better! |
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We went through a lot of water bowls and finally settle on small pyrex glass custard bowls. Max didn't like seeing his reflection in the stainless steel ones we had. |
I love their individual idiosyncrasies--fascinating how the little Yorkie mind works! Thank goodness our little ones have the patience to put up with our trials and errors until we finally get it right! And the getting 'em to eat is just one of ever so many...! Love these 'gotta be just so' babies! |
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