My family and I adopted Sarah Cate (lab-boxer mix) about a month or so ago. I am still having trouble get her to eat. I was wondering if her foster parents emailed you with what she ate? I have tried different dry puppy food, then switched to cans, then mixed the two together and even tried an old trick a friend of mine told me about (she’s a vet tech down the cape) I even put olive oil in the food. All with limited success. She will eat, as soon as I start feeling confident I figured her out, she stops eating. Then the trial and error start anew. The bowl issue has been settled, thankfully (she was afraid of her food/water bowl – it took me three tries to get her to accept a bowl). Please help.
Rescue Director’s Response:
Hi, Jean. Are you picking up her food bowl when she stops eating? or are you leaving it on the floor? I highly recommend picking up her bowl when she stops eating, until the next scheduled feeding time. If dogs are allowed to ‘graze,’ they never get the message that it’s meal time, and they might just pick at their food. If you pick the bowl up until the next feeding time, hopefully she will get hungry in between. If she is growing and putting on weight, then I doubt there is any medical problem. Just pick one high quality dry food and stick with it even if she doesn’t eat at all for 2 or 3 days. She will learn to eat it—almost guaranteed. Please keep us posted.
