Stop feeding people food. Feed only the best quality kibble you can. Perhaps a bit of canned as an occasional treat. A healthy dog won't starve itself.How do i get my dog off the habit of eating table food?
try to keep the food towrd the center of the table
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just don't give her any table food.
offer only dog food, and she will come to eat it, when she is hungry enough.
it won't harm her.
just offer the dog food, and water.
stop the table scraps.
it's bad for her, anyway.
stop mixing table food and start mixing wet food
Well you shouldn't have started her on in it the first place now you have to play hard ball. offer her dog food and nothing else. When she doesn't eat pick up her bowl and give her about 45 minutes before offering it again until its time for bed. Make sure she has access to water. Keep this up until she does eat and if she is 100% she will
Healthy dos will not starve themselves.
She has you wrapped around her fluffy little paw. When shes hungry, she will eat her food. Set a bowl of kibble down, leave it down for 15-20 minutes, and pick it back up. Save the exact same kibble until next mealtime. In the meantime do not offer any treats and do not allow her to have any human food. She will get hungry and start eating soon enough. She may hold out a say or so, but she will not starve herself to make a point. Do not worry! =)
I agree with D b Very much so!
Stop feeding it to her. Eukanuba is an excellent food, as is Nutramax. Both can be purchased at a Pet Smart type store. Trust me, a healthy dog will not starve herself to death if there is food available. Eventually the dog will eat what you serve it. ;0)
EDITED TO ADD; Don't feel guilty, you are saving your little friend's life. She is a toy breed dog, they are prone to obesity as it takes very little in extras to add up. Commercially prepared dog food is required to meet the animals nutritional needs through the food alone. Treats should be given very sparingly.
well kindof mix in the table with the hard but slowly lower the amount of table food...and instead mix in some soft food with hard food
she might get used to it
good luck
you should just get really good quality kibble and ust tll her no sittt sitt!
slwoly relive her of it start but oce every other week giving her dry food and keep her food down for only about 20 min. and if she do not eat put it up and do not feed her till the next meal and do this more often but do the food down only 2o min all the time and she will start to eat it remeber no treats if she do not eat also do kibbles n bits best i found for dogs used to table food
ps on christma sand special occasions do not give table scrappings give wet dog food
To be honest, just as the old saying goes...'bad habits are hard to break.'
Charlie, our 18-pound Lhasa mix is so spoiled that every morning, he has a slice of bread with us for breakfast and at night, I mix a boiled handful of stew meat or chicken in with his regular dry food (录 meat to 戮 dry) and he has become so accustomed to this diet that he absolutely will not eat anything else.
I did check with our vet about his diet and he said that as long as I don't give him anything other than what I have been feeding him, Charlie is as healthy as a horse and as long as he eats it, it is ok.
In your situation of not wanting her to eat human food, as you talking about eating whatever it is that you eat or are you meaning it to be like the diet I give Charlie? If you are meaning it to be that it is whatever you eat, that is a BAD thing and what you should maybe try to do is to leave her food down in a cool, dry place that is free of the possiblilty of ants and other insects getting to it and start to cut back, little by little, on the food other than her own and ignore her if she begs and whatever you do, DON'T GIVE IN!
It might take a little of her getting use to it, but once she sees that you are not going to give her anything, she will start to eat her own food when she is hungry enough (I'm not talking about starving her to death, by any means) because she may try a battle of wits to see how long it will take before you give in, but as long as you keep the bowl of her kibbles where she can get to it and knows where its at and ignore her 'cuteness' and stick to your guns, you will gain the upper hand.
AND DON'T GIVE HER HUMAN FOOD UNTIL SHE HAS BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO EATING HER OWN FOOD and just give her a teeny little sampling once in awhile as a reward, but not enough so that it replaces her meal and she goes back to Square One.
I use a brand of kibble that is a bit more expensive than something like Purina Dog Chow and is breed-specific and seemingly a little more healthy. It is a brand called Royal Canin and get either the one Shih Tsu or the one for Small Dog. A small 5lb bag is about $14, but Charlie seems to like it and it claims to be fortified with vitamins and minerals. I also have a Black Lab and for him, I buy the 37.5 lb bag that lasts close to a month, his is $45 and it is breed specific for a Labrador Retriever. The only down side is that this brand of food, while more expensive than most of the others, NEVER goes on sale and is only available at PetSmart. To me, the cost doesn't matter as long as they both eat it, stay healthy and are happy.
BTW, every dog I have ever had has been on a similar peeople food/dog food combination and every one of them has lived happy, healthy lives into their early to mid-teens.
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