What to do with them?

[Tralee]

Put their kibble down for 15 minutes if there is any food left it goes back in the bag. They don't get more food until dinner, same thing as the first meal, put it down for 15 minutes and take away whats left over. Don't watch them or add anything to the kibble. They will learn quickly that if they want food they better eat it when it is there. A healthy dog will not strave themselves! It may take a few days but they WILL catch on. My dogs inhale their food in about 30 seconds. When we got Toby he had been free fed. A few days of strict meal time and he gobbled all him food down.
Adding stuff to their food will just make the picky eaters, it is just a quick fix and doesn't help you in the long run.

Good Luck

[Roxyluvsme13]

Well, Lily knows if she doesn't eat her food that she'll get people food. Mainly my mom's doing, NOT mine. So of course she's not going to eat.. Roxy's doing a bit better though, but I want to go back to Raw, and she won't eat it..

[bckrazy]

I'm not sure what to say. Roxy refusing to eat could be the result of a number of issues... =/ is she eating even a little bit or totally refusing?

My advice would definitely be to entice her to eat. Because you've expressed concern about her weight, she shouldn't be fasting too much. Mix in canned food or meat or soak her kibble in chicken/beef broth or warm water.

[Roxyluvsme13]

I'm not sure what to say. Roxy refusing to eat could be the result of a number of issues... =/ is she eating even a little bit or totally refusing?

My advice would definitely be to entice her to eat. Because you've expressed concern about her weight, she shouldn't be fasting too much. Mix in canned food or meat or soak her kibble in chicken/beef broth or warm water.

Well, she's eating her kibble fine. I just hate to feed it to her cuz it's crap. But now she won't let me watch her eat. I would have continued with the Raw, but if one dog's not going to eat it..

[bckrazy]

Ok... so, Roxy IS eating but she's just being picky? Or does she actually refuse? How are her poops, and is she acting ill at all? Honestly, I think you should do much more research on raw and get to a point where you can give them a good variety of meats & supplements before switching them cold-turkey. That is how I feel. Raw feeding is great when it is given in a well-thought-out manner, but it sounds like they went from their kibble to just chicken for one week, so it's understandable that their systems might be unsettled right now. It IS better to feed a good quality kibble than to feed raw without knowing what you're doing.

I feel that Roxy & Lily, right now, would do much better on a good quality kibble with raw bones on occasion for recreational chewing. Going from all raw chicken one week to all (poor quality :/ ) kibble the next week is not a healthy diet, IMHO. My advice would be to get Roxy & Lily eating the best brand that you can afford (Nutro Natural Choice, Canidae, etc) and supplement that with occasional RMB's (for Lily chicken legs, for Roxy beef femur/knuckle or pork ribs) for their teeth.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Ok... so, Roxy IS eating but she's just being picky? Or does she actually refuse? How are her poops, and is she acting ill at all? Honestly, I think you should do much more research on raw and get to a point where you can give them a good variety of meats & supplements before switching them cold-turkey. That is how I feel. Raw feeding is great when it is given in a well-thought-out manner, but it sounds like they went from their kibble to just chicken for one week, so it's understandable that their systems might be unsettled right now. It IS better to feed a good quality kibble than to feed raw without knowing what you're doing.

I feel that Roxy & Lily, right now, would do much better on a good quality kibble with raw bones on occasion for recreational chewing. Going from all raw chicken one week to all (poor quality :/ ) kibble the next week is not a healthy diet, IMHO. My advice would be to get Roxy & Lily eating the best brand that you can afford (Nutro Natural Choice, Canidae, etc) and supplement that with occasional RMB's (for Lily chicken legs, for Roxy beef femur/knuckle or pork ribs) for their teeth.

Yeah she's just being picky. She was eating her Raw fine for about the first week, and then she just stopped. She seemed to absolutely love it, and I was getting ready to add in a new meat since her and Lily weren't vomiting, and their poop was normal. But then, she decided to stop eating the chicken..so.. . The highest quality kibble my mom would buy is Kibbles & Bits and that's why I hate feeding her kibble. There's not a single way in the world I can convince her to buy something higher. She buys Lily Pro-Plan, but still bleh.

[zoomer]

Humhp... my dogs are doing the same thing. Maybe she just isn't being hungry at the time? I just leave the dogs food out and they usually eat it later in the day. How much are you feeding? Maybe you are feeding too much?

Sometimes I add a raw egg to my dogs' food and they eat it, plus, it helps prevent the goop that comes out of their eyes.

I really don't know what to say or how to help...

[luvofallhorses]

maybe it's the heat? or has it been like this for awhile?? I know my dogs don't like to eat as much when it's hot out..of course it's not always hot out being in Montana and all..

[BC_MoM]

Roxy may not be feeling well. It could be the heat.

I think it's absolutely ridiculous that Roxy gets Kibbles & Bits while Lily eats Pro Plan. *shakes head in disgust*

Canned is way cheaper than kibble.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Well, I'm sorry I'm not as perfect as some of you . I'm sorry I "waste" my money on animals in need, when I could have saved it to buy some stupid dog food Roxy probably wouldn't eat. I'm almost 14. I do the best I can for my dogs at the moment. YEAH I could switch them to a higher food, but I don't have 100% control over my dogs. I had them on Raw, they were loving it, then all of a sudden one of them stopped eating it. I TRIED. It was cheaper for us, it was great, but Roxy stopped eating it. We're broke. My mom's been out of work for the past 3 months due to something that's NONE of your business. We've done the best we can feeding ourselves. I've had to give alot up for myself, and I spent my own allowance on Raw. Then, I find some extra money and want to get another 3 bettas. My own reward to myself, and I can't even be happy about it, because my dogs aren't perfect like the rest of your dogs. Roxy's eating, and Lily's eating, and at the moment I don't frapping give a care of the kibble is a piece of CRAP! They had the choice to eat better, but they wouldn't. I'm tired of every single thread I post asking for a bit of advice turning into something like this.

Edit: Jadapit, yes I have a Petsmart.

[Kfamr]

Well, I'm sorry I'm not as perfect as some of you . I'm sorry I "waste" my money on animals in need, when I could have saved it to buy some stupid dog food Roxy probably wouldn't eat. I'm almost 14. I do the best I can for my dogs at the moment. YEAH I could switch them to a higher food, but I don't have 100% control over my dogs. I had them on Raw, they were loving it, then all of a sudden one of them stopped eating it. I TRIED. It was cheaper for us, it was great, but Roxy stopped eating it. We're broke. My mom's been out of work for the past 3 months due to something that's NONE of your business. We've done the best we can feeding ourselves. I've had to give alot up for myself, and I spent my own allowance on Raw. Then, I find some extra money and want to get another 3 bettas. My own reward to myself, and I can't even be happy about it, because my dogs aren't perfect like the rest of your dogs. Roxy's eating, and Lily's eating, and at the moment I don't frapping give a care of the kibble is a piece of CRAP! They had the choice to eat better, but they wouldn't. I'm tired of every single thread I post asking for a bit of advice turning into something like this.

Edit: Jadapit, yes I have a Petsmart.

Kid, you're the one who turns it into "something like this."

Every single person here has given you well intentioned advice BUT YOU DON'T LISTEN. That's why I rolled my eyes when I saw yet another one of your threads. It's just like a record playing over, over, over and over again.

We give you advice.... and 99.9% of the time it goes in one ear and right out the other. If you don't care then why is this thread here?!

[Vela]

Fine, no problem, but if you don't care, please stop coming here and bit*hing about it and asking us what you can do differently. People tell you what you can do differently when you ask and you get all defensive and start yelling at people for the choices YOU make. Also, nobody asked you about income or why your mother isn't working or aything else so I don't konw why you are getting mad at anyone about that. You come and ask for advice, don't like it, so turn around and act extremely rudely to anyone who gave you advice.

I also want to mention that comment about the dogs "could have eaten better but chose not to" is just simply silly. They are dogs, they have no idea about money or anything else like that and they can't make choices like, "oh I know this is better for me so I'm not going to eat it". You also said you couldn't afford it anyway, which is fine, but I don't know why you are blaming the dog when you wouldn't have been feeding it anyway right now.

I'm sorry you are having a hard time but you bring a lot of this on yourself as well with the choices you make. You could buy their food yoruself if you have extra money and used your own money to buy the other stuff. I do hope your mom get a new job soon and I don't really want to know the details of why she is or isn't working and never asked. Good luck to you.

I agree with Kay as well.

[Husky_mom]

not intending to sound rude, Bri, could it be posible to tell your mom to take the 40 she spends monthly on food and go buy the biggest bag of better food you can with it, then you can serve both dogs from same bag and it would be cheaper since they´ll need less food as with other less quality food, and you would be saving more than buying two different brand bags, the bigger the cheaper it turns..........i´m sure it´ll last them longer

[caseysmom]

Does your mom shop at costco. The kirkland brand is pretty good and it is really cheap.

[Roxyluvsme13]

We don't have a Costco. There's seriously nothing wrong with Roxy . She just wouldn't eat her Raw.