I must have the most finikey dog EVER. She wont eat her food again!!!
So, it looks as though Maggie is being a food diva again. She has given us so many issues with her food. We have tried brand after brand...probably 7-8 of them now, and she will eat it for a while and then she will sniff her bowl and walk away from it and not touch it until late in the afternoon. She only gets fed once a day as we narrowed her down to that since she wasnt eating her other 2 meals when she was a puppy. We bought her 3 brands of food, the top 3 that she seemed to like the best, once she turned one, and we mix them or rotate them out. This seemed to be working up until 2 days ago. For some reason she is not eating it again until late in the afternoon. She will take out 3-4 kibbles, bring them to the rug, lick them, eat them, then give it up. She only eats 1.5 cups a day as we want her to maintain a healthy weight. With that, she gets about 5-6 healthy treats a day. I mix in 2 tsp of halo dream coat in her food..she will lick that up on its own.
It is incredibly frustrating. From day one, she is the only dog that I have ever heard of that will not gobble up her food instantaneously. We do not give her table food, but if we are cooking and something drops, or a paper towel, or a tissue, paper...etc...forget it, it is gone! So she will run after things that fall on to the floor but she wont eat her food!? I don't get it. I am beyond frustraited now though....we CAN NOT keep switching her food...it is not healthy...from what I have been told.
Any ideas...plllleaaase. lol
It is incredibly frustrating. From day one, she is the only dog that I have ever heard of that will not gobble up her food instantaneously. We do not give her table food, but if we are cooking and something drops, or a paper towel, or a tissue, paper...etc...forget it, it is gone! So she will run after things that fall on to the floor but she wont eat her food!? I don't get it. I am beyond frustraited now though....we CAN NOT keep switching her food...it is not healthy...from what I have been told.
Any ideas...plllleaaase. lol
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Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on
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No Maggie is not the only finicky corgi! My Bella does the same thing! What has worked fairly well for me most of the time is to add a veggie to the food mushed up and mixed well so if she wants the veggie she must also eat the food! I also keep a bag of different food (only one) and will try giving her this also. She usually goes back to her original food in less than a week...don't know why but if it were me I would continue the food you really want to feed her, try the veggies and go with only 1 food for a back up! I have also done things like crumble her home made dog biscuits on top! Most of my corgis take their time and enjoy their food! Good luck! Actually if she is eating a quality food...1.5 cups of food per day is very adequate. Mine get a handful 3 x's per day....so that might be less than what you feed Maggie!
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Permalink Reply by breanna bellefontaine on
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thanks for the tips...glad i am not the only one!
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Permalink Reply by Susan Temple on
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Peanut was a slow eater too, until Tulip came along--now he eats his food right away. I never worried about him not eating. He just knew to eat when he was hungry (unlike his humans LOL). I would stop switching her food and just let her eat when she wants. Since you said she does eat in the afternoon I'm assuming it's not a medical issue. Look at it this way, it's better to have a Corgi who knows her food limits then one that turns into a huge moving foot stool!
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hahaha true!!
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Permalink Reply by Amanda & Winnie on
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Winnie will not eat dry food without something on it, so I have to buy wet food and put it on top of her dry food before she will eat anything at all. I also have to physically pick up a few pieces of her wet food and hand feed her before she will start to eat. I think that this behavior is related to us feeding her tiny bits of human food during the day, as if she is thinking "what comes from mom and dad's hand is going to taste really good."
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Permalink Reply by Sky and Lyla on
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I had a lot of typos from trying to post a response from the iPhone.. oops! So here it is again, this time correct!
I don't think she's finicky as much as it sounds like she is getting a lot of food. I can't say for sure since I don't know her or her age, but my 11 month old Corgi gets 2/3 cup a day and maybe 1 cookie. You might take a look at how much she's getting, she could just not be hungry.
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Permalink Reply by Bev Levy on
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Maybe she is not that hungry! If she is healthy just put the food down for 15 minutes and pick it up and put it away until next time. Mine get 1/3 cup of quality dry food twice a day with some green beans mixed in at dinner. Changing around a lot just trains them to be fussy. If you want a fussy eater, it is a really easy thing to train!
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Permalink Reply by Judi, Dawn, Soffie & Griffyn on
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I agree with Bev. Soffie tried to pull this trick on us. And we would just pick her food up after 15 minutes. It only took a few times doing that and she was a changed girl! But like Bev also mentions, you want to be sure there isn't a health issue of any kind.
Soffie 4 and Griffyn 3 get a rounded 1/4 cup of Wellness weight control twice a day and we supplement with green beans. They get a treat twice a day. One in the afternoon and one in the evening. We stuff a kong with 1 happy hips biscuit and green beans. We also alternate the dry kibble every few months, with either innova evo reduced fat or the Wellness simple5mix adult. Neither one of them have ever had a problem transitioning from one food to the other.
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Permalink Reply by Katy on
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I've heard the opposite on switching meat types in foods, if they were wild/feral, etc or even by ancestry no canine really ever eats the exact same thing every day, so I have a hard time seeing that it could harm them. But I do kind of agree with the above posts, I would think she may be getting too much food, just look into it, couldn't hurt =) My adults get a total of 1c a day and we are gradually decreasing it since they aren't very active.
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If they were feral they would not eat every day, would eat pretty awful stuff, and would die about 3 years sooner!
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oh wow....hm. my vet said she was very healthy. she is a large female...she is built like a male. she stands a little taller and weighs 29-30 lbs. My vet said we want to make sure we can feel her bones, but there should be about 1/4 inch of "protection" around her for her to be healthy. she said 30.5-31 lbs max for her. She runs around constantly so I dont think she is getting too much. Now, today, we went out for a long walk...lots of fresh snow so she was romping around heavily and she came inside and gobbled up her food...she is weird. lol
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Permalink Reply by Beauty and the Beast on
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To make sure your dog is not overweight just look at her back from straight up. There should be an hourglass shape where her waist is.
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