There was another thread going about this topic, called poor appetite, with some suggestions from Carrie there. My dog is a picky eater, sometimes she goes to the bowl and eats like a "normal" dog, most of the time she picks it out of the bowl, brings it to the carpet, drops it, eats it there but leaves a kibble or 2.

My advice - leave the food out at the same time every day and take it back after an hour eaten or not.

I can't say I took my own advice but maybe with my next dog-Sadie's too old and it is my fault. We did have a critter problem in one apartment due to leaving food out at night (they might have showed up anyway, I don't know) so definitely no food out at night!

That reminds me - for a while Sadie seemed to prefer eating like in the middle of the night. Why would she do that??