Stubborn furbaby won't eat out of his dish Rocco has decided lately that he doesn't want to eat out of his food bowl. He weighed close to 5 lbs and dropped to 4. We now have started feeding him on a plate so he will eat. Has anyone else went thru this with their furbaby. He is fickle his water also. He will only drink water with ice cubes in it. If there are no ice cubes he will make a mess batting at the water dish. Some people say when he gets hungry enough he will eat. Although he's not as small as some, he doesn't have a whole lot of weight to spare. |
i have one that only will eat out of a paper plate and it has to be a new one every time she eats no matter how many times a day she eats a new plate. dry dog food how dirty can it get that it has to be changed every time |
Is this a new thing with the not eating? Have you taken him in to the vets to be checked to rule out any physical problems? If not, that should be your first step. a 20% drop in weight is significant. Sometimes you do what you have to do in order to get them to eat. Rhett went through a period where he wouldn't eat out of his bowl. I had to hand feed him bit by bit. Some others have said (and I've noticed with Scarlett) that if the food bowl is too deep their dogs won't eat and switching to a shallower one helps. My doxie flat out refuses to eat from a shiny metal bowl. Something about it spooks him and he will only eat from a ceramic one. |
Ziva will not eat from a dog dish, I have found some saucers and a little side dish plate(like from a restaurant) that she will eat from. She will only drink from the big dogs SS bowl, not a little one... She is not a big eater during the day but I find she will eat up to two tablespoons if offered before she goes to bed.Her favorite food is Solid gold, "just a wee bit",she can gobble it if she has forgotten to eat and is hungry. If I mix some fine chopped meat and veggies into the kibble at dinner she will do much better. She weighs just 6 lbs but is thin. |
Pasquale likes to eat off a flat plate too. When i first got him i bought him these cute bowls...but he wouldnt eat. I think he couldnt get to the food well. So i put it on a flat plate and TADA!!! He eats like a pig now lol |
Alex is picky to and goes thru phases. At times he will eat out of his bowl and sometimes he has to be hand fed. When he was a puppy the only way to get him to eat was to make a game out of it and throw it around the kitchen floor so he could chase and it eat. Now he is picky and sometimes has to sit on his dads lap to eat or mine and sometimes he is a big boy and will eat by himself. After ten years, he still has us guessing. Lol |
For the water, maybe try getting a water bottle. We did that with Bandit because he made a huge mess in his crate with that water and it worked. I'm not sure if it'll fix your problem with the ice cubes but it's worth a shot. Good luck! |
He had been eating out of this bowl for months. He just started this last week. I do have an appt with the vet and now that we put his food on a plate he seems to eat it just fine. It just seemed strange that all of a sudden he just decided to quit eating out of the bowl. |
Penny is just like this she will only eat off a paper plate |
My Simon is 7 years old and has never eaten out of a bowl. We tried the bowl when he was a puppy and he wouldn't eat unless we took it from the bowl and hand fed. So...we tried a plate and still no. Finally I tried a piece of towel and put his food on that and that seemed to work for him! All these years he has eaten off of cut squares of towels. I just keep a stack of them in the cupboard so he has a clean towel plate for his meals. My Olive eats from a bowl just fine. |
I also went through all this with Bridget. I tried every dish/bowl in the house. Even no plate/bowl. She would only eat her food if fed by hand - or if given as a "treat" (which takes forever with the size her kibble is). Even her soft/canned food she would only eat from a spoon or my fingers. I figured this was it and I needed to get her to eat - so be it. Then I noticed - all the dishes she wouldn't eat her food from - were the same dishes she would steal the cat food from.....she was obviously smarter then I am - or should I say WAS. I still hand feed her kibble to her in the evening - it's kind of our bonding time. But I do know that she will eat it if she's hungry (I've seen her do it), and I do leave some out for her during the day...just in case. She also likes to have ice cube in her water - I don't think it's so much for the drinking part as it is for the playing part. She has trained me well....! |
My little Rocko picks up the food and drops many pieces on the floor. Then he goes around and eats them. I've never thought that maybe it's a plate thing, wanting a flat surface. I'll try that. It drives me nuts because I find pieces all over that he chooses not to eat. Maybe they don't like the feel of their hair on the side of their face hitting the bowl... or maybe just the restrictive feeling of the bowl. He grabs it and puts it on the floor like something is going to get him in the bowl... kind of funny. :) Good luck! Hope your baby eats more soon! They are smart and hold out sometimes to see if you offer something better. Sounds like your Rocco is very smart! ;-) |
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