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06-15-2007, 02:47 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Newtown, PA
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| Need help with feeding I need some advice. I have a yorkie girl, Coco who is 7 months, I've had her for 4. For the first 3 months I fed her Eukanuba puppy small breed kibble. She was impossible to feed as far as that goes, she never wanted it but I kept going with it. Then my vet recommended to switch to wet food. I did. I fed her Wellness puppy wet food for about a month. SHE GOES WILD FOR IT. She absolutely loves it and eats in 30 seconds!!! I was so happy for her. But then, I started to have more of a problem leaving her home all day (see my other thread on training, she urinates in the crate). She will still do this sometimes when she eats dry food but since I started the wet food I thought it got much worse. Is this related? My vet says probably not but my trainer says maybe. So I bought her Wellness puppy dry food (kibble). Not interested in it! Eats a small amount reluctantly, just like with the Eukanuba. I wet the food a bit, she eats a little better but I have yet to get Coco to finish the recommended portion in one day. I always have to throw away. Today I broke down and opened a can of Wellness wet puppy food. I put a scoop into the dish she was eating from that had the dry version that I had moistened. I moshed it all together. She sort of picked at the dish, finishing all the wet food and eating a bit of the dry (most likely by accident). Wouldn't eat any more after the wet was gone. What to do? Is the wet food a problem to feed as her only food? Is it making her pee that much? I am so worried and stressed. |
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06-15-2007, 06:39 AM | #2 |
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| I would NOT feed her wet food only. Yorkies are prone to bad teeth and wet food is NOT good for their teeth. I think if she gets hungry enough then she'll eat the hard kibble. Try sprinkling to grated parmesean cheese (that comes in the green can) on top of the hard kibble. Of course she's going to choose the wet food over the dry food if she has a choice. But don't give her a choice......... |
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06-17-2007, 08:14 AM | #4 |
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| I would not feed wet food only. I think what you experience is preety normal for a yorkie owner. I have asked similar question before and here is my suggestion and in your case I would probably stick with the kibbles that she initially would eat. If you keep changing the kibbles she will become more picky. From time to time you can give her something different to mix it. Sometimes we all do not realize that probably we are over feed our little one. So, I realize that to make her eat more regularly she has to fill hungry and this will stimulate her appetite. I try to limit her food by giving her one big meal a day and small (half size meal) in at night/dinner. Choose the type of kibbles or mixed it wet food of her choice / like but try to stick with it. If she does not eat, leave it for 30 minutes and take them away. At night I give her half of the amount that she usually eats. Usually she will finish all of them because she is hungry. I notice that by doing this she knows that she needs to eat otherwise she will be hungry. If she eats well off course you can give her some treats in between but do not substitute her meal with treat. If she does not eat well stop the treats for sometimes. By doing this you actually also make yourself as the alpha/leader of the pack and the best of all it helps to potty trained her. She potty only twice a day now compare to almost 4-5 times (probably coincidental?) Off course I will not suggest this method for small or young puppy becuase of the risk of hypoglycemia but live is just much easy when she eats more regularly. She also becomes more obedient. PS. There is nothing better than fresh homecook meal, but if you decide to give her kibbles or wet food please stick with 2 types of food since giving her different variety makes her more picky. If they eat well, do not add more (my tendency and mistake is to give her more food when she eats well) See also this post http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...t=74813&page=2 Last edited by SONYSW; 06-17-2007 at 08:16 AM. |
06-17-2007, 08:26 AM | #5 |
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| You could mix the wet and dry together and slowly every day lessen the wet food and see how that goes.
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06-17-2007, 04:44 PM | #6 |
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| Wet food obviously contains more moisture, so her fluid intake increases when she eats wet food, leading to more urine. As far as the dry food goes. Dogs are weird. Spike has never gone crazy for dry food (he eats Nutrience puppy formula) - he'll eat a little, but he never goes crazy for it like he does for the wet food. I really cut back on Spike's treats when I saw he wasn't eating very much dry, and it helped a little, because let's face it - they need to eat their dry food in order to get the proper nutrition, and they have such small stomachs that one extra treat can make a big difference in their appetites. It's strange though, because he loves his dry food when I hand feed it to him one kibble at a time - you might want to consider this option. Once I realized this, I started using his kibble as a reward when I do his obedience training, rather than treats. He does just as well with his kibble reward as he does with treats, and this way I know what he's eating is more nutritious. |
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