How to get Sage to eat more?
Sage is not food motivated and never acts like she's hungry, I have to kennel her to get her to eat and have tried warm water on her food which sometimes works. I also have given her Canidae instead of TOTW and am picking up the bison today. We have always fed these 2 kinds and she has at least eaten but now she seems to be getting pickier:( Any thoughts without putting yummy food on top of her food?
She weights 23#'s and should be 25#.
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Permalink Reply by Jane on
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I've heard of people giving their dogs "satin balls" to fatten them up but I'm not sure if it's a long term type of thing.
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Markley on
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Hi Jane! People food is my best advice. Seanna doesn't talk to me when I keep it from her....
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Permalink Reply by Natalie, Lance &Tucker on
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Could you give her wet food with the dry food?
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Permalink Reply by Bev Levy on
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My Standard Poodle was never much of an eater. He stayed slim all his life (18years). I just let him be thin and he stayed really healthy. The only thing he seemed to love was getting into the garbage pail. Looking back on it I wonder if I should have put his food in there....
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Permalink Reply by steve smith on
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That is where I get my food. Has any of this worked???? ₧
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Permalink Reply by Anna Morelli on
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If she is healthy, cut back her food a little bit at a time until she eats eagerly. Being over-weight is a problem, if she's skinny and healthy, that's not a problem. Let her choose how much she needs to eat and don't create a more finicky eater by adding all kinds of enticements to make her eat more than she needs. Nobody starves with food available! If you are in doubt about her health, have a general check-up at the Vet.
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Permalink Reply by Melissa and Franklin! on
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Maybe try adding some wet food to her dry and see if she wants that? I'm sure she hasn't read the book that indicates what she "should" weigh, so maybe she may just be a slim corgi. Franklin spent most of his time on the skin and bones side of the corgi spectrum and tends to gain and lose weight really easily. I think with high energy/high drive dogs, they can just be a bit harder to keep weight on. I found that feeding him in interactive toys actually got him to eat more. He'd let his kibble sit in the bowl all day, but if I put it in a toy and it becomes a job to get it out, he usually has all his food eaten by the time dinner rolls around (which is an improvement from before where he might only eat one meal a day).
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Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on
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Welll sage didn't eat till tonight and then it was plain TOTW with the lamb and a bit of bison mixed in:) We'll keep on watching I guess. I did look up Satin Balls and the recipe is very interesting....I may have to try them!
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Permalink Reply by John Wolff on
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Can you repost this please? It got garbled. It reads, "Sage is not food motivated and never acts like she's hungry..."
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It may be that there are skinny dogs, just like there are skinny people. It has its advantages, if starving to death in the next famine is not a concern. My guess: she'll eat what she needs.
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Oh, John....I need to hang a shingle out that says "Doggie Diner" I did pick up the bison TOTW yesterday as in the past I have had dogs that didn't like lamb and this is a bit higher in fat and much higher in protein (32%). We switched the protein source when Bella was having issues and thought it may be the chicken. Sage ate this am and we had a little of the new kibble mixed in with the lamb so I am hoping she will like it. What we don't do for our dogs!!!! I also feed her in her kennel or she'll let one of our other starving dogs eat hers:(
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You're sure Sage is a corgi? I mean, we have a dogproof barricade in front of the catbox, and heavy rocks on the lid of the compost bin.
Perhaps you could don an expensive maitre D' outfit and proffer artistically arranged hors d'oeuvres of organic free-range pate' de fois gras on lavender-scented linen napkins, with soft violin music in the background?
With Siri, our first corgi, nothing dropped in the kitchen ever hit the floor, even if the dog was asleep on the couch 20' away when it was dropped. Even if it was a fork.
You could do a DNA test.
(:
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Permalink Reply by Patricia A Columbo on
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Tootsie is a picky eater also. I dribble a little plain yogurt (Brown Cow) on her food and she just LOVES it.....
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