Dog fed up of food ?

dashoonage · 20-09-2017 7:22am #1

So, my dog has been on hills id for the past few years. Required about plus a small bit of chicken. For the past two weeks she hasnt been eating the nuts. She will pick the chicken out of it and leave most of the nuts. Is she just fed up of the food ?

She will also eat any other food she can get her paws on!

She did the same thing this time last year for about a week but went back to eating again.

Everything else is fine. Energy,weight, stools, sleeping etc shes her usual self.

P.S I will be taking her to the vet anyway but just thought id ask.

tk123 · 20-09-2017 9:24am

Variety is the spice of life

f you're happy with the Hills have they another flavour you could try? I feed something different to my guys most days.

dashoonage · 20-09-2017 9:28am

tk123 wrote: »

Variety is the spice of life f you're happy with the Hills have they another flavour you could try? I feed something different to my guys most days.

I think this is the issue as well...i think ive a bit of picky puppy syndrome going on.

I'll see if they have different flavors when im at the vets.

edit: just checked and they have different flavours...i bet ive picked up one she doesnt like,

PoppedPopcorn · 20-09-2017 9:42am

Dogs are smart. Why eat the nuts when they know if they wait they will get chicken :-)

kylith · 20-09-2017 2:09pm

PoppedPopcorn wrote: »

Dogs are smart. Why eat the nuts when they know if they wait they will get chicken :-)

My brother had a dog that was a divil for that: wouldn't eat the food because he knew that half an hour later the wife, concerned that the dog was "starving" would cook him some sausages. They must have spent a fortune on dogfood that went in the bin and sausages that went in the dog.

OTOH if Finn turns up his nose then, depending on my mood, either it stays down until he eats it, or it gets taken away until next meal time. It's amazing how unpicky they get when they're hungry.

Remember: your dog licks its own bumhole, it is not disgusted by the taste of dogfood.

tk123 · 20-09-2017 2:14pm

kylith wrote: »

It's amazing how unpicky they get when they're hungry.
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'The best sauce is hunger' :pac::pac:

deadlybuzzman · 20-09-2017 6:31pm

Ours gets sick of foods quite easily and it's not like she was spoiled as she was happily eating actual crap while turning her nose up at food if she ate it for long enough.
So now I rotate her foods, I only get the 2.5 kg bags of a few different foods and a few different things to mix though it.
Its no major hassle I just wary of giving her too much of any nice treats incase it stops being a treat and becomes what's expected

dashoonage · 20-09-2017 6:40pm

Picked up a small bag of seven trout salmon and sweet potato , normal hoovering has resumed

thanks all!

WARFIELDWOLF · 21-09-2017 8:11pm

This is a long time to be on a prescription diet - does it have a chronic illness?

dashoonage · 21-09-2017 8:20pm

It??

she has digestion issues. Vets orders.

No issues with eating past few days since I swapped the nuts.

Cherry Blossom · 21-09-2017 8:36pm

I was going to say she's a she not an 'it'. :P

Cherry Blossom · 21-09-2017 8:40pm

OP, I would cut out the chicken from her regular meals in any case. Use it for training treats instead at another time of the day.

WARFIELDWOLF · 21-09-2017 9:12pm

apologies for "it" .... i would challenge the vet to explain why this type of food is required long term - even if you are happy with the cost, there are almost certainly better foods available for the price of a hills or royal canin prescription diet that may excite your dogs taste buds - a local independent dog food store or irish dog food website with a telephone number or chat function should be able to offer a number of alternatives ;-)

dashoonage · 22-09-2017 7:44am

WARFIELDWOLF wrote: »

apologies for "it" .... i would challenge the vet to explain why this type of food is required long term - even if you are happy with the cost, there are almost certainly better foods available for the price of a hills or royal canin prescription diet that may excite your dogs taste buds - a local independent dog food store or irish dog food website with a telephone number or chat function should be able to offer a number of alternatives ;-)

Cheers! ah i know you didnt mean the "it"

Jess suffered from very poor digestion a while back...like very poor, and she was very uncomfortable with it. The vet put her on Hill id and she was a different dog. We were reluctant to take her off it in case the issues came back.

No choice now i suppose for a while though! Going to skick with the smaller bags of Seven for a few weeks

Past 4 feeds have gone down no issues on the "Seven" shes even eating them from my hand! no chicken in this mornings one either and it was wolfed down.

Appreciate all the replies everyone.

Dog fed up of food ?

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