I can assure you beyond doubt that a healthy dog will NOT starve itself to death. Your dog WILL eat dry food.
However, what your dog has learned is that he is stronger willed than you are, and that you will give in before he does. He has learned that you will always, without fail, give him something else if he refuses to eat dry food. Your dog has trained you well. In this little head game he is playing, you are losing.
Take your dog to the vet for a check up. If he is healthy, then put down a bowl of dry food and walk away. Period. Do NOT give in. If you do, the dog wins, you lose. He WILL eat it, in time.
You are the human, the owner, the alpha creature in the household ... or at least you SHOULD be. You get to decide what your dog eats, when he eats and how much he eats. Just do it. You will have a better behaved, healthier and happier dog for it.
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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