One morning bella wouldn't eat her food, I had to sit and hand feed it to her. After a day of her not wanting to eat we took her to the vet who said she had a sore throat. He put her on two kinds of medications. One was an antiflamatory and the other an antibotic. This happened several times, I thought maybe the dry food was scratching her throat. Now we add a tablespoon of canned food to her dry. We haven't had a problem in over a year.