struggling to get my yorkie to eat
 

I'm a new puppy owner of my yorkie sophie who is now a little over a year old. She was doing good eating science diet puppy food kibble mostly, sometimes had to mix with the science diet canned ID when she seemed to be picky. Now fairly recently can't get her to eat either one just smells it and leaves. So I was told to try Purina pro plan recently, at first she seemed to like it now not so much in the last two days. The vet has checked her out thoroughly and she looks fine. Would really like to keep her on kibble a good quality one and not wet food. I'm at a loss what else to try. I've been told yorkies can be very picky. I would so appreciate any help or suggestions anyone else might have. Thank you very much!

I went through that recently with one of my older dogs. I don't have any good advice unfortunately.

For us, I had to break down and start mixing a little bit of better quality canned food with the kibble. I pick up the dish after 15 minutes and feed my girls twice a day.

Hope you figure something out.

reply about my yorkie sophie
 

[QUOTE=Lisa and Pic;4796344]I went through that recently with one of my older dogs. I don't have any good advice unfortunately.

For us, I had to break down and start mixing a little bit of better quality canned food with the kibble. I pick up the dish after 15 minutes and feed my girls twice a day.

Hope you figure something out

Thank you for your response. May I ask what kibble and canned food you use please. Thanks again diane geralyn weber from iowa

thank you for your response. May I ask what kind of kibble and canned food you use please. Thank you again for your time. Sorry replied with a message not sure it sent so I tried again. Diane geralyn weber from Iowa

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You can sprinkle some Parmesan cheese over her food, most dogs love the pungent smell and gets them to eat.

Royal Canin is amazing for picky eaters especially the Yorkshire Terrier version which is made to taste amazing to picky Yorkies. You might want to try that. I have had two really picky eaters just love it.

My Gidget loves the Royal Canin. No problem getting her to eat it.:)

I made the mistake of giving Cookie wet food when I first got her and it was a little bit of pain to get her back on more nutritious dry food. Though she was 14 weeks so I was also worried about low blood sugar. At one year the low blood sugar probably wouldn't be a problem (would it?). I also feed Royal Canin and Cookie loves it. But as long as she thought she could get me to feed her wet food she'd act stuck up about her dried food until I just put only the dry Royal Canin out. I still give her wet food for special occasions though, and when I want to ensure she has a full stomach for her Trifexis.

Trifexis is really dangerous like deadly. I would stop giving that ASAP. You can google it if you don’t believe me. That stuff should not even be on the market it’s that dangerous.

Would definitely do some research on the Trifexis.

about Trifexis
 

I'm sorry exactly which one is dangerous wasn't sure which one you meant the purina or the science diet. Please let me know. Thanks so much

about trifexis
 

I'm sorry not sure which one you mean the purina pro plan or science diet. Please let me know which one. Thanks a lot

IVet dog food
 

Ivet is a dog food you can only get from the veterinarian. Does anyone know anything about it and if its any good. I heard it could be good for picky eaters also. thank you

Sorry. Never heard of Ivet dog food. Will google and see what I can find.

Never heard of it but you really should try Royal Canin.

Maybe this sounds crazy, but have you tried softly singing while feeding your baby? Like a lullaby or something slow and with a melody? I did it when one of my puppies got sick and it seemed to help him eat!

I had the problem with my first Yorkie, little Scotty. At first he wouldn't eat anything for 3 days but the bits I put in his mouth and held his little mouth shut until he swallowed. Or forced a teaspoon of Karo syrup into his wee mouth. He was so little, I knew he needed the glucose if nothing else from his food. But it was a trial. Snubbed everything but bits of turkey from a microwave dinner! Now he loved that but refused his food, kibble or canned. I knew he couldn't thrive on microwave turkey and worried myself sick. Tried bits of the turkey over his kibble, ate only the turkey! Vet(s) assured me he wasn't sick - over & over.

Finally, out of desperation, one morning I placed a mere teaspoon of kibble on one of our china saucers in place of his bowl of food after taking up his regular food overnight. He sniffed it with interest but walked away as if to say 'you can't buy me that easy. THAT'S not microwaved turkey'! Shakily and unsure, I took the saucer up, tossed out the food and left him with nothing for another 8 hours and then placed a teaspoon of his kibble on a clean saucer down and he was soon there at first sniffing and then gobbling it up. But I gave him no more that night. Next morning, got his teaspoon of kibble on the saucer and he was soon there checking it out but didn't eat! Took it up after 5 mins., tossed the food. That evening he got 2 teaspoonfuls and he ate them right up. Next morning, the 2 teaspoonsful were slowly, kind of reluctantly eaten but he ate them and again that night and on until he eventually got the normal quotient a pup should eat on a china saucer and he was never a problem eater again, even when I changed back to feeding him in a brand new doggie food bowl. It was small, his sized, like his original bowl - the one he'd ignored and fasted right long until the human saucer and strict portioning/removal after 5 mins. of having a choice of eating of his food for a while, letting him see that failing to eat got the food taken away and nothing replaced it for hours. I checked him frequently in case he was acting strange as I knew small dogs can have problems if their glucose drops too low but he never swooned, staggered, stood too still for too long, or just slept or any of he signs of low blood sugar, thank goodness. He never had problems eating after that unless he was ill but as soon as he felt well again, he was a steady eater.

My Jilly and Tibbe were both grateful, happy eaters of every bit of food you put down for them. I free-fed Jilly and she never got fat but Tibbe did. Had to take up his food as he'd just keep eating beyond the 1/4 cup portion his vets said a Yorkie of his size and body type should eat each meal! So he was ready and waiting every time his meals were offered and ate all his food right up and lost the extra 1/2 lb. he'd packed on while still free-feeding. But I'll never forget all the angsting over Scotty and his picky eating for a while.

Dog food
 

Mine eat lifes abundance. I order it on line. Top dog food. Look it up a d try it. Breeders use it.