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07-07-2012, 04:26 PM | #1 |
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| Feeding your dog: Spoon or Fork Crazy topic, I know I am having issues with my dog eating lately (read all of my related topics and posts), so I have literally stooped as low as to feed him with a spoon or fork just to get him to eat a bit more. Have any of you all done this~? |
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07-07-2012, 04:33 PM | #2 |
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| No. But I have feed by hand when they have actually been sick.
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07-07-2012, 04:57 PM | #3 |
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| I have hand fed kibble..... but I wouldn't hesitate to feed via spoon or fork!! |
07-07-2012, 05:15 PM | #4 |
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| Chase does great with a fork, but Calvin does better with a spoon! Yeah, I've fed them bites of their wet food like this before I do hand feed them dinner, because Chase eats SO fast, I like him to have at least 1 meal a day he has to eat slow! |
07-07-2012, 05:39 PM | #5 |
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| Oh I'm so glad I don't have to spoon feed Uni anymore or beg her to eat. With that being said, I vote spoon. |
07-07-2012, 06:41 PM | #6 |
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| I've spoon fed Kaji only when it's something mushy. Like canned pumpkin or ice cream.
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07-07-2012, 06:49 PM | #7 |
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| I have used a spoon for mushy things. That is a habit that I really didn't want to start so I rarely did it. There is a lady that lives near me that still spoon feeds her 6 year old german shepherd!
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07-07-2012, 08:02 PM | #8 |
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| We have used spoons before. But not for every day feedings. Just special treats.
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07-07-2012, 08:04 PM | #9 |
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| I don't even like to use dog bowls that I have to wash so utensils would not go over well here. I just put their paper plates on the floor and they stick their faces in just gobble up their food like little piglets.
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07-07-2012, 08:40 PM | #10 |
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| When I have a sickly dog, I just handfeed them. Mine have always seemed to prefer to take food directly from my fingers when ill.
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07-07-2012, 08:54 PM | #11 |
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| oh wait, then ok I STILL spoon feed Uni. I give her labne (middle eastern yogurt with probiotics) with her meds in the middle. She gobbles it up. If I eat cottage cheese I let her lick the spoon.
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07-07-2012, 09:08 PM | #12 |
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| I have used a spoon before but Callie prefers my finger even if its the nastiest stuff. When I could not get her to eat pumpkin and she needed it I had to use my finger and it took forever to get it out from under my nail and I swear even after washing my hands a million times it still smelled like pumpkin but it got her to eat it.
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07-07-2012, 09:21 PM | #13 |
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| I have hand fed Elvis before he would only eat off the floor when I first got him and I train my dogs nit to eat off the floor so I hand fed him. I'd use a large silicon spoon to train to bowl feeding if I had to...caredul with teeth. I swear by the raised feeders by thebellacottage.com they're stainless steel easy to replace bowl absolutely adirable feeders at two great heights for cats and small dogs and they're the cheapest in price I have ever found...seriously they should be giving me serious discounts for endorcements at this point.
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07-07-2012, 11:05 PM | #14 |
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| I may give a treat of cottage cheese by spoon and I do use a fork sometimes when they get their after dinner treat. I put it on the end tyne of the fork and they very gently take the treat off. I have also fed by hand when they have felt well. So I guess it depends on the situation.
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07-08-2012, 01:56 AM | #15 | |
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I daren't feed Harry with a fork - I'm so clumsy I'd probably fall over and stab him in the tonsils.... Sally x | |
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