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Originally Posted by MandyandAngel
Were do i start. We throught we were giving our baby girl the best by giving her Bakers, which she is still on, and we can just about afford this because hubby retired and i'm at college. We now know this is not the case and we are interested about giving her the BARF diet but we are not sure.
We are not sure because she is a funny eater. She doesn't eat all her food in one go, but in little bits. She takes a mouth full, brings it into living-room, eats it, and then goes and get more. She does this about four times and thats it. She does this about every 4 hours, and she has done this ever since we got her. She was 7 months when we got her from a breeder.
We are wondering if we change her diet to BARF would it be okay with her eating habit or not. Any advice would be helpful because we want to give her the best but don't know what to do because of her funny habit.
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I got a problem like that with my pup. Ever since I got him from breeder, he has been fussy about food. I have tried numerous brands, dry and wet, you name it.
If he was an adult dog, I would probably say, will eat when hungry, but pup needs to develop and grow, and for that needs nutrients, therefore I am jumping over loops and trying to come up with 'perfect formula'.
Faced with this problem, I have done loads of reading, am very grateful to participants of this thread, for got more than few good advices.
Since nether of diets on its own worked for my pup, I am doing a mix of few.
I do offer him dry food at beginning of every meal, and sometimes (rate ~one out of 8) he would have a full meal of it.
The other 'food' I give him is yoghurt with cottage cheese. They both are rich in protein and calcium thus providing proper nutrition, and sometimes he likes it. However, I never load his bowl with full portion. Add a teaspoon (he is a little breed pup) at a time. Once he is done with it, I ad another. Following this method he always has a good meal out of it, while if bowl was loaded he would just sniff couple of times and leave. No clue why.
For meat, I make him liver meals with carrots, and meatballs (adding some rice and carrots-peas mush into it).
Once in a blue I would offer him raw beef mince.
Combining all these tricks together, I am managing to get him growing quite well.
I did not expect to have so much fuss about dog’s food, but I have to do what’s best for the pup.
To break a habit going into his beloved spots to eat, and stay by his bowl, I close pen (he loves to eat there) and doors to other rooms, leaving kitchen door open, not to make him feel claustrophobic. Seems to be working all right. He makes few attempts to go to his pen or my office, but then comes back and eats meal at the bowl
PS. Inspired by this thread.
I got Orijen (arrived today). Was dismissed by my pup, but tomorrow he might change his opinion.