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jess
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27-09-2006, 08:54 AM
THANDI - well done, good posting!

I was the same, with the B**F diet and making lists for supplements when out shopping. 3 years later, and I am just chucking bits of meat at them, and maybe egg/sardines/cod liver oil/garlic/seaweed/brewers yeast/seeds and nuts... (you get the idea) maybe once a week or so. Dogs are better than ever, and it makes me really think that the 'meat' in commercial dog food is worse than ever at 4% and things, my dogs diet is 90% meat!!! And it is NOT ''complete and balanced'' (hate that term), and it's a damn sight better than I could ever buy from any pet food company!!
Zuba, I think if your dog shows no other signs of being unwell, I would just ignore the not feeding. If mine ignored the meal in the morning, I would not put down food until the next day, and leave them to have a fast. Sometimes the system needs a break. Offer something different to her tomorrow and if she is still not eating, I would worry she wasn't well, but I doubt that she wouldn't take it. My Jaz doesn't like chicken wings, no matter what i do with them, yet he will eat raw heart with blood dripping from it (yuck). It's a matter of knowing what she likes. If she normally eats it, then I would be thinking she just needs a break to let the system wind down...
let us know how she goes,
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27-09-2006, 09:21 AM
Thanks everyone
Update:
She will eat chicken all day long, minced with veg and wings and what not, but she will not eat anything else I put down some lamb mince with kidneys and she wouldn't eat it, two days she went without rather than eat what I put down so I gave her a chicken wing and she gobbled it up We had lamb for tea yesterday and she ate all the trimmings but will not touch it if its in her bowl going to try stuffing the skin of chicken wings with some lamb and liver, tonight, I wont hold my breath though, she is just a snotty nosed cow Baku eats everything, fresh fish, lamb breast, veggies and he does love slices of apple I think Zuki is just being fussy, I am going to also try feeding her on a human plate, to see if she will eat it thinking its out left overs She wont even touch fish which she used to love, Baku didn't mind he loves sardines
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27-09-2006, 09:31 AM
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Thanks everyone
Update:
I think Zuki is just being fussy, I am going to also try feeding her on a human plate, to see if she will eat it thinking its out left overs

If you realsie she is being fussy why are you continuing to pander to her?

Sorry to be so blunt, but I think you need to STOP this now, as you are (imho) making a rod for your own back.
The fact she will eat when you throw things to her, must show you something surely?

she is playing you like a fiddle! yehudi menuhin would be proud

I have seven dogs. They eat what they are given, or they dont eat...and in nealry thirty years of having dogs in my home (not only my own, but rescues and dogs here for socialisation etc) I have never had a dog die of starvation!
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