Originally Posted by WhiteRabbit

We're having some more trouble with Purdys eating habits...

If you've seen my post from a few months back, you'll know that she refuses dry food and will not eat it even when she's starved herself for three days, unless we add some sort of meat, and even then she leaves it, she despises puppy food (She looks at me as if she's considering disowning me if I even try to put some of the leftover cans we have in her bowl), and she'll only take meaty chunks. Pastes of any kind are off the menu and if it's not covered in gravy or jelly, I can shove it up my ***. Fair enough. I gave up trying to fix that when she starved herself for nearly a week and passed out.

So at the moment, we have her on Pedigree adult meaty chunks in gravy (And Iams biscuits if we can hide them well enough, but the bag will probably be heading to the dogs home food donation because she hates it), and she gets half a can three times a day, but the problem is she always seems hungry and wolf's it down so fast she ends up with hiccups. It's like she's inhaling it! Sometimes she even throws up after, because she's eaten so fast. We don't know why she eats this way. We feed Kaiser separately, because she'll go steal his and he's too soft to tell her to stay away, so it can't be that she's worried he'll steal her food.

I just want her to eat normally, really. I've heard of a lot of cases where dogs have gotten bloat from gulping in air when eating too fast and I want to prevent as many problems as possible. Ideally, I'd have her on NatureDiet and eating slowly and contently, but that seems to be reaching for the stars with her. Any ideas on what I can do to slow her down and stop the hiccups and throw-up (which she then tries to eat again, by the way).

Originally Posted by grandad

Have you tried her on minced green tripe? Availalbe frozen from PAH or other doggy places. Natural and nutritious. Costs £3.50 - £4.00 hums a bit though