Question about feeding.....

[lute]

I also wanted to throw in that it is not bad to feed an older puppy once a day. It's just a good idea to keep it twice a day. You can even feed her twice a day forever. You don't have to make it once a day when she's an adult.

[chocolatepuppy]

Yep, it sounds like a case of someone's getting spoiled. I feed my dogs twice a day. When I just had L&L if one of them didn't eat, the food went up and they didn't eat until the next meal. Since I got Jake my girls have not refused to eat a single time.

[MoonandBean]

Thanks everyone. Yea...I get it. Yesterday I only gave her 1/2 cup at breakfast and she snarfed dinner right down! After I use up the 4 started cans of different dog food in my fridge...LOL!!!!, I will stick to one kind of food and add it to her dry and that's it. I'm sure if she misses a meal, she'll eat whatever we give her the next meal.

As ALWAYS, thanks for your help!

[Glacier]

In addition to what's already been posted, I'd suggest giving her a set amount of time to eat. I have two fussy eaters. They each get 20 minutes to eat. If they havent' in that time, the dinner bowl goes away. I might offer it again later in the evening. I sometimes let one of the skinny dogs have it instead. They both eat the next evening without fail!

An otherwise healthy dog will not starve itself to death!

[Seravieve]

I know that variety isn't an issue here, but I just wanted to through it out.

We've fed B and Z Lamb & Rice formula for a while and when Eli graduated to Adult food, he started eating that as well. He got really finicky with it and would go without eating. He'd walk to his bowl, smell it, and then try to turn it over. Thats even with two other dogs as competition. So I branched out and got a different formula, Fish & Potato. He LOVES it. Will eat the kibble straight from my hand, unlike the L&R that he'd spit out. We did the whole time limit thing with him and also mixing other stuff in, and even then he'd eat the good stuff and leave the kibble. So it could be that he just didnt like the lamb and rice... =)

Or that he thinks he's special and needs more expensive food.. lol.

My RB Pepper (dalmatian) ate Kibbles and Bits, Science Diet (What the Humane Society recommended at the time), and Ole Roy and she lived to be 15 yrs. Of course, we didnt know better at the time. We would have bought her better food if we'd have known then.