Wow the Tripe got here today! Fedex delivered it, that was QUICK!

I took one spoonful and mixed it with a bit of water and poured it over his kibble. He licked all of the kibble and ate some of it. He is going nuts for tripe!! I've never seen him so interested in food! I'll give him 1/4 cup with tripe mixed in and set to absorb it for a while, tonight. I hope he eats his kibble. He seems obsessed with tripe now. Wow... I'm amazed! He actually begged for more, but we gave him a dentastix.

If he continues to go nuts for tripe I'll buy a case of it online. If it gets him to eat his food, I'll buy it. It stinks so bad, and I didn't even touch it and the smell was on my hands! But I'll do it for my baby, if it gets him to eat his kibble. :)

He's not continuing to eat the tripe. I guess the only thing I can do now is to put the food down and pick it up after 20 minutes if he hasn't started eating it. I'll do that 3 times a day. :( I hate to do that but it seems nothing else is working.

awwwwwww bless him, i have a yorkie puppy who eats anything and i have a yorkie cross jack who is very picky, i find if i change the flavour of his food regular then he eats it up, at the moment mine are fed on naturediet and mixer.

when he doesn't eat i just let him walk away and then wait for him to come back to the kitchen and put the food infront of him and i repeat this for half an hour after that he has to wait untill next meal time, and usually will eat it:thumbup:

My dog quit eating the tripe mixed with kibble. It's been a frustrating ordeal. I did buy a can of Taste of the Wild and he seems to like that (for today)... So I'll feed it again tomorrow to see if he still will eat it. If he finishes the can, I'll go buy more. Otherwise I don't know what to do if he keeps refusing food.

He's developed allergies though. We just gave him a bath because he was obsesively licking his paw. Poor guy. I think he has outdoor allergies, so we should bathe him once a week. I need to get specially formulated dog shampoo, we are currently using a cheap knockoff of Johnsons tearless baby shampoo. I hope feeding him a grain free food will help that as well. No clue if it will. He's a pain to try to get to take benedryl or any liquid medicine or pill for that matter so we are trying to avoid using benedryl.

But yeah I hope that he continues to like TOTW. I'm trying to do research on it but I've not found much online. I hear it's very good for dogs, but can't find much in the way of reasons online.

Paris is a 12 lb Yorkie and he gets 1/3 cup Blue Buffalo 2 x's a day mixed with 1 tablespoon Blue Buffalo canned and water mixed together. He gobbles it up like no tomorrow. I also had to stop feeding him ANY people food. It was hard at first because he would stare at me while I ate, but now he know he's not getting any and just goes and lays down. Usually I give him his daily treat while I eat.

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Riley weighs around 8lbs. He eats about 1/4 cup of food, total per day with a few treats throughout the day.

I have been feeding him about 1/8 cup of Primal premade raw in the mornings and then he and eats 1/8 cup of ACANA kibble at night.

I usually cut up a few frozen green beans and put a few peas in each meal. For the kibble, I will also let it soak in a little bit of water, for a few minutes, then drain, and sprinkle it with a tiny bit of Cocotheraphy Coconut Chips.

It took me a few months to get the food thing right but he is totally thriving now. People comment all the time about how great his coat looks.

Good Luck! :)

I just found a food that Bentley will eat. He's eating Taste of the Wild canned food. Today is the second day on it, and it seems he really likes it! It's been 3 years of fighting with him to eat dog food. Trying tons of different brands of kibble. So I've been exploring canned foods and he seems to like TOTW. I hope his enthusiasm doesn't die off like it usually does with food. He will go maybe 3 days eating a food then refuses to eat it again. I have hope that he'll continue to eat this because he's scarfing this food down.

I need to start measuring his food. I've not been doing it. But I'm confident that I'm feeding enough. Whew! Finally. I'll go to the pet store and buy more of the TOTW tomorrow. I only had one can. :)

Thank you all for sharing how much food your baby eats. It has given me an idea of what Bentley should be eating.

You can be confident feeding TOTW. He may also like their kibble; Dori is "wild" for it!

Forgot to mention...excessive paw licking could be a sign of yeast infection. Have your vet check it out.

Yeast infection? He may have one in one of his ears. I gave him a bath and wasn't as careful as I should have been around his ears. Would a yeast infection in an ear cause paw licking?

No, it wouldn't CAUSE a yeast infection, but yeast can spread from paw, to mouth, to ear or anywhere on body. Yorkies with allergies seem to be more prone to these infections and they are hard to clear up.

Hmm. I gave him benedryl last night and he stopped licking his last night and hasn't started back up today. So I'm thinking it's like a pollen or other outside allergen that is attached to his paw. But yes I'm going to call the vet first thing Tuesday to see if he needs to be seen for a possible yeast infection in his ear. I think last time that happened a few years ago we were given ear drops.

I called and got him an appointment on Wednesday for his ear and nail trimming. The tech said to wash our his ears with cleanser "aggressively" (??) until I can get him into the vet. I'll try to find the ear cleaning solution, it may be up in a cupboard.

Science Diet is a very poor food to feed any animal. I would check the sticky list on the General forum to get free samples from high quality dog foods. I feed Taste of the Wild 1/3 cup twice a day now. He is eating it all, for the most part. Some days he leaves a few pieces but that's not much of a concern. He doesn't eat when he's not hungry. But usually he'll eat twice a day. I feed him before noon and around 7pm.

I'd try to go with a dog food that is grain free, Blue Buffalo has a grain free dog food which is called Wilderness. I don't know if they have canned food for that variety or not.

Bentley seems to have finally stopped his scratching and paw licking. It's been probably 2 or so weeks since he's been on TOTW canned food and he's doing great! I hope I can start getting him to be more active so that he can lose some of this weight that he's gained over the year. Mom feeding him from her plate really isn't helping. But she's cut way back on how much she gives him. So that's good. I want to start buying the Lite Greenies, if they have them in the Teeny size. I'll have to look.

But so far so good with feeding Bentley the TOTW. I'm so happy he's eating! He is begging less for food. Though he still does beg for his treats in the evening, the greenie and the dentastix. But that's okay, they are good for his teeth! :)