mrspwgunny
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| 01/15/2010 4:47 AM |
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Hi
We have a 12 week old gsh Wyatt will only eat from my hand
Any suggestions here |
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unowhoandwhy
Middleofnowhere, NH
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| 01/15/2010 5:24 AM |
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| How long has he been doing that?! If it's only been a little while, were there any changes in your life/routine/etc? |
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mrspwgunny
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| 01/15/2010 5:34 AM |
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No changes here,he has pretty much never finished the food,( he is gaining weigh) so I started this and he will finish the food,our vet said to add some water so we did.
I am hoping you can suggest adding something to the food so Wyatt LOVES to eat from his bowl. |
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everbell
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| 01/15/2010 5:51 AM |
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| you could add a little peanut butter, yogurt, chicken/beef broth (although try to find low-sodium, I would think) to his food. Mine also love pumpkin. I know some people have also used wet cat food to entice their dogs to eat, but not sure if I would do that with a pup without checking first with the vet. |
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Splat
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| 01/15/2010 6:04 AM |
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| I know I have heard people say that you leave the bowl down for 15 minutes and what they don't finish you pick up and you don't feed them till the next feeding. |
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mrspwgunny
Long Island NY
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| 01/15/2010 7:26 AM |
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thanks for the suggestions, is peanut butter ok for a 12 week old? |
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everbell
Kanata, ON
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| 01/15/2010 7:47 AM |
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| i think a little bit would be ok ... too much may give him the runs. |
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MegC
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| 01/15/2010 7:50 AM |
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| I would do the 'leave the bowl for x minutes and pick it up' thing. Good eating habits for life begin now. |
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gharner
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| 01/15/2010 8:46 AM |
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Never really had that problem...Dax is usually done within 5 minutes haha....
it might help to put a little wet food under his dry food. That should get him to eat through it all to get to the good smelling stuff.
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mrspwgunny
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| 01/15/2010 8:50 AM |
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Thank you all I am going to try a little peanut butter at dinner time! |
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everbell
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| 01/15/2010 8:51 AM |
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| The other thing you can try is a food toy. An apparatus that you put food in and they have to work to get it out. Good for the brain! (We used busy buddies when Bo was little -- to slow down his eating.) Maybe having it be a "game" would help encourage him? |
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mrspwgunny
Long Island NY
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| 01/15/2010 8:55 AM |
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| I have tried KONG with a treat in it,he seems to get VERY fustrated |
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gharner
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| 01/15/2010 9:41 AM |
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| Haha thats funny....when he's frustrated does he just look at it and bark constantly?? Thats what Dax does when he's really frustrated while learning a new trick or trying to get peanut butter out of his kong or other bones |
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CL66
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| 01/15/2010 12:45 PM |
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| Mine did that, my partner would leave a little trail of food from a few feet away to his bowl and he'd eat along it and then eat out of the bowl. But i was more of the opinion that if he didn't eat it then tough.. he always would when he got hungry enough!! |
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MegC
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| 01/15/2010 12:55 PM |
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Back to this now that I've got a couple minutes... I don't have the time or inclination to mess around with a dog that won't eat when I put the bowl down. GSPs are hard enough to keep weight on already, especially if you end up traveling, competing in any type of dog game, or just wind up in a stressful living situation (hurricane? fire? flood? moving?), so learning good food habits is a priority.
As a tiny pup Anya would get distracted mid-meal and quit eating, even while in a crate. SO... after 10-20 minutes I would just reach in, grab the bowl, and feed another dog her leftovers RIGHT THERE in front of her. We would also adjust the amount of her next dish down a little so there wasn't as much to be left over. It took just a few days of that before she got distracted and Rogan stuffed his nose hopefully on her crate door.... and she started frantically vacuuming up the rest of the kibble so he didn't get it, lol! At that point we praised her, started shooing the peanut gallery off, and worked with her on good food manners with humans (i.e. now that it's a valuable commodity, don't even THINK about guarding it from us).
It's all just like potty training and learning their name IMO... it's something that starts from the minute they arrive and needs to be consciously approached as part of molding a good canine companion for life. |
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Intro to harness sport/mushing- start here! |
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mrspwgunny
Long Island NY
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| 01/15/2010 1:36 PM |
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It worked the peanut butter did the trick, Wyatt finish his dinner from his bowl.
Thank you all |
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MelB
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| 01/15/2010 8:14 PM |
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| now you can try adding some cooked veggies to his food too, they are good for him and might be enticing enough to eat also! |
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mrspwgunny
Long Island NY
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| 01/16/2010 3:07 AM |
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thanks Mel,
what kind of frozen veggies and how much? |
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gharner
Middletown, PA
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| 01/16/2010 5:57 AM |
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| Dax looooves carrots. Raw or cooked. |
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MelB
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| 01/16/2010 6:11 AM |
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| you can use fresh zucchini, yellow squash, spinich, green beans, peas, celery, carrots, kale, parsley,portebella mushrooms, sweet potatoes, potatoes, pumpkin, squashes.......the list is pretty endless actually. No grapes of course, no onion. They don't recommend peppers in dogs with any arthritis conditions because it might aggravate the joint swelling. A bit of garlic is good for them but don't overdo it, depending on the size pot you are cooking a 1/2 to a whole clove minced works well. I just cook it all in one pot and use the "juice" as the broth in the food I make because it will contain any of the nutrients that may leach out of the food when you cooked it. You can use frozen too. Even apples, berries etc are good for them in moderation! |
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