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Both those options look good to me. I checked the sites you gave and the Royal Canin's ingredients look good - no meat by-products or anything sketchy like that. Eagle pack looks good too - I prefer going for the holistic/natural varieties of whatever brand I choose and the Eagle Pack site has a holistic variety with ingredients that sound great. Not sure if that's available by you. Hopefully your dog will like one of them. By using brands that include human grade meat it should taste better and be more tempting!
I try to reward Sadie with a spoonful of cottage cheese or an egg yolk a few times a week only after she finishes a bowl of food. I hope she'll associate eating well with be rewarded to encourage her to eat. She can resist temptation to any treat, doesn't care about food at all, but cottage cheese she goes crazy for!
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i had nearly the same problem with Leika. I use Eukanuba puppy for small breeds, she didn't eat from her plate 'cause it was too big for her and it wasn't 100% her own. It belonged to my old dog Ringo. I used to give her in my hand, but you shouldn't do this, this will get you to give her everyday food from your hand. THen I bought the right plate for her. Maybe that's her problem?
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she has been using her own dog bowl since last time. :D
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the groomer recomended another brand of dog food which is called ' back to basics' . has anyone heard of this brand?
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this is their website
http://www.backtobasicspetfood.com/
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Their ingredients look good too. Sadie is eating innova right now (which I know you can't get evelyn1157) and the 1st 2 ingredients are chicken and chicken meal so it sounds like a lot of meat which Sadie should love but I don't see her doing flips for it.
Evelyn 1157 - are you still concerned about how much your dog is eating? I think as long as you feed her what you consider the best brand nutritionally that's all you can do. She may know better than the recommended amount on the bag how much she wants - unless her weight is dangerously low or there are other signs of health issues.
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well, she's certainly not eating enough. she's thin but her hair tends to make her look fatter.and i don't think she's underweight yet. she'll be 9 months old this coming february and she's about 5 kg that's about 13.4 pounds.does that seem ok? oh , and i have finally settled for 'back to basics'
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I looked up this info on Shih Tzus:
Size-Ideally, height at withers is 9 to 10 1/2 inches; but, not less than 8 inches nor more than 11 inches. Ideally, weight of mature dogs, 9 to 16 pounds.
So if she's around that height her weight is fine, on the high end even.
I'd only be concerned if her weight dropped and she was lethargic. Not all dogs eat everything in sight as I learned with my current dog. Some days she will skip meals or hardly eat, don't know why. For 9 years her weight has been steady - 35 - 38 lbs - it's as though she knows exactly how much her body needs to maintain that weight. I know a lot of people who would love to have that ability and discipline! (Of course Sadie doesn't do it for her figure.) Her teeth are good, coat is shiny- never had a health problem. Picky eating could be a good thing.
