Debo doesn't want to eat his morning meal

For the last couple of days ( more like a week or so ) Debo doesn't want to eat his morning meal. He has it at 11am ,he will eat enough to not feel hungry and leave the rest. At evening meal hill will it his normal portion without thinking. He's fed up with f4ds so we in the middle of swappinf to wainwrights. Today was the same ,in the morning he eat 40g of his food,so I thought I'll add up the rest amount to his evening meal. But he only had his normal amount leaving the rest. He's only 8months so he's still developing,I'm bit worried that he doesn't get enough.

If he's growing well, not skinny & happy & lively then don't worry. Some dogs actually self-regulate what they eat. My old boy Bandit would sometimes go 2 or 3 days and eat virtually nothing! He still grew to be a very healthy 3 & a half stones!

I bet if it was cooked chicken you would have no problem. Miley seems to go off and on her food. We try and vary her diet with meat and dry food. She has chicken and fish tuna with dry food mixed in. Then complete when she goes funny. Try giving the evening meal a bit earlier and breakfast at normal time see if that helps

Moo skips brecky now, I still feed it and not really bothered that she doesn't eat it, she has dinner and that suits her Xx

I can imagine your dogs in the wild. "Oh no, I'm not eating that, I want rabbit, not pigeon!"

As long as he's not starving himself or losing weight, I wouldn't worry much. They won't let themselves stay starving.

My OH calls him french dog,he so fussy,so ye I think that what he would do in the wild . It's not that we're changing his food every time he turns his nose on it. We tried leave it for a while ,I thinking he will have it later. It was like that for long time.When he only had as much to not feel hungry. So,if he wont it his morning meal shell I give him his normal food in the evening or double it?

so the question is are our dogs playing games or are they actually off their food? jola139 how long do you leave it before changing thats the prob i have some people say just leave it he will go to it if he is hungary enough.. i would rather get summit he likes rather than him take it cos thiers nowt else.. so does that mean i am spoiling my 7 month old pup? our boy gets the freedom of the house and is getting taught to behave where he goes and have to say for his age is a really well behaved pup.. i dont want my boy looking skinny i want him to look great all the time and look forward to dinnertime.. he cant afford to to lose out on meals he gets to much execsice when i switched to hills scienceplan i also switched feeding times and was advised that i was not giving it enough time between feeding and 1st walk[about an hour] i am always willing to accept advice so i will change...but i have to say and do not wish to offend anybody but i am sorry if wanting my pup to love his food and look his best all the time then thats me.. thats my rant over playtime with my boy...

solhiem wrote:so the question is are our dogs playing games or are they actually off their food? jola139 how long do you leave it before changing thats the prob i have some people say just leave it he will go to it if he is hungary enough.. i would rather get summit he likes rather than him take it cos thiers nowt else.. so does that mean i am spoiling my 7 month old pup? our boy gets the freedom of the house and is getting taught to behave where he goes and have to say for his age is a really well behaved pup.. i dont want my boy looking skinny i want him to look great all the time and look forward to dinnertime.. he cant afford to to lose out on meals he gets to much execsice when i switched to hills scienceplan i also switched feeding times and was advised that i was not giving it enough time between feeding and 1st walk[about an hour] i am always willing to accept advice so i will change...but i have to say and do not wish to offend anybody but i am sorry if wanting my pup to love his food and look his best all the time then thats me.. thats my rant over playtime with my boy...

It isn't so much that you'll be spoiling him as you could upset his digestive system. Also, if he goes off a food when you've just opened a large pack, what do you do with it?

The easiest way to stop boredom with food isn't changing it constantly, it's adding something tasty to it - a raw egg, a couple of sardines, a little cooked meat etc. Some people also get a tray for good quality wet food & mix a little of it into the dry to make it more apetising.

Caryll wrote:

solhiem wrote:so the question is are our dogs playing games or are they actually off their food? jola139 how long do you leave it before changing thats the prob i have some people say just leave it he will go to it if he is hungary enough.. i would rather get summit he likes rather than him take it cos thiers nowt else.. so does that mean i am spoiling my 7 month old pup? our boy gets the freedom of the house and is getting taught to behave where he goes and have to say for his age is a really well behaved pup.. i dont want my boy looking skinny i want him to look great all the time and look forward to dinnertime.. he cant afford to to lose out on meals he gets to much execsice when i switched to hills scienceplan i also switched feeding times and was advised that i was not giving it enough time between feeding and 1st walk[about an hour] i am always willing to accept advice so i will change...but i have to say and do not wish to offend anybody but i am sorry if wanting my pup to love his food and look his best all the time then thats me.. thats my rant over playtime with my boy...

It isn't so much that you'll be spoiling him as you could upset his digestive system. Also, if he goes off a food when you've just opened a large pack, what do you do with it?

The easiest way to stop boredom with food isn't changing it constantly, it's adding something tasty to it - a raw egg, a couple of sardines, a little cooked meat etc. Some people also get a tray for good quality wet food & mix a little of it into the dry to make it more apetising.

or alternatively buy some chappie or weebox (not do much good lol)but watch it disappear out the bowl .dog are like kids and love rubbish once in a while

It's not the we change his food cus he doesn't like it, he didn't tolarate the ones before. With f4ds it did good for him,he just can't stand it. We leave his bowl for 20min max. We tried mix stuff with it but he'll or lick it off or pick thd nice stuff.

jola139 wrote:It's not the we change his food cus he doesn't like it, he didn't tolarate the ones before. With f4ds it did good for him,he just can't stand it. We leave his bowl for 20min max. We tried mix stuff with it but he'll or lick it off or pick thd nice stuff.

see thats where the good wet foods and also weebox and chappie come into there own there more pate with the expensive one and the cheap ones paste so you can mix and coat the kibble so nothing really for them to pick out .

the other alternative and really the right thing to do (but the cruelist )is leave the dry food for say the ten/twenty minutes then remove and offer no pickings to next feed same again and so on a dog wont starve it self and will eventually eat there food thats given

Caryll wrote: Some dogs actually self-regulate what they eat.

This is exactly what Rocky does, we have noticed that no matter how much we give him in a day he will eat 160g of dry kibble exactly each day. At first we thought it was a fluke but then we realised what was happening.

latest update with our boy.. put his bowl[hills scienceplan] down to him this morn he backed away and went through out kitchen..left for 10mins i went back to his bowel to encourage him to eat he stood and looked at me [now before i say anymore your all going to laugh] i lifted one bit out his bowl he eat it off my hand the rest he eat off the floor [as i placed them down] i no that was wrong..

jola139 wrote:It's not the we change his food cus he doesn't like it, he didn't tolarate the ones before. With f4ds it did good for him,he just can't stand it. We leave his bowl for 20min max. We tried mix stuff with it but he'll or lick it off or pick thd nice stuff.

You could always try a raw diet?

solhiem wrote:latest update with our boy.. put his bowl[hills scienceplan] down to him this morn he backed away and went through out kitchen..left for 10mins i went back to his bowel to encourage him to eat he stood and looked at me [now before i say anymore your all going to laugh] i lifted one bit out his bowl he eat it off my hand the rest he eat off the floor [as i placed them down] i no that was wrong..

Maybe it's the bowl he doesn't like? Is it metal? If it is, you could try changing to a ceramic one, or get a large mat & let him eat off the floor!

yes caryll he has raised bowls and both are metal and although he does drink out his other one he never actually touches it with his toungue its never empty enough but his bowls are not new he has had for a few months, but thinkin back he has always been quite cautious when eating.will try later see how he gets on will let you no..

solhiem wrote:latest update with our boy.. put his bowl[hills scienceplan] down to him this morn he backed away and went through out kitchen..left for 10mins i went back to his bowel to encourage him to eat he stood and looked at me [now before i say anymore your all going to laugh] i lifted one bit out his bowl he eat it off my hand the rest he eat off the floor [as i placed them down] i no that was wrong..

My girl went through a stage of doing exactly the same thing, she dosen't do it anymore but for about 10days she barely ate anything, only what I would hand feed her as I ws worried she would starve She eventually stopped doing it. Do you leave his food down for him, or do you pick it up and take it away if he dosen't eat it in say half an hour? I used to leave Steff's food down for her until it was gone which meant she was free to go back to it when it suited her. The advice I received was to leave her food down for 20mins and even if she hadn't touched it take it away and don't feed again until next meal time.. That worked and in 2 days she was cleaning her bowl at every meal

That's what we did,but he's to smart for it. He picked up dry piece licked the wet of it and spit the rest. And we do leave it for 20min and remove it when not finished and offer is later. Now when he can smell wainwright in there he will eat more. Mine maine worry was that because he doesn't eat much in the morning he won't get enough food for him to grow. But as some of you said, shouldn't been worried if he's fine himself. We still in the proces of swapping for wainwright so it might improve.

Cheeky boy I'm sure if he is acting normally and not sickly then he won't starve himself, it worried me when Steff stopped eating, but I think it was just letting her have access to her food all the time, that she just became picky..

Question. At his age ( nearly 9mnths) can I cut only to one meal a day? He just had his supper and looked really hungry so gave him the rest from morning ( 50g ) and top it up with evening amount 160g. He's pretty happy with it.

yes at that age i feed once a day I prefer to feed once a day late afternoon anyway

Thank you

More wanwrights in the bowl and we're back to normal. I guess fish is not his thing.

My 2 seem to not be that fussed on the Wainwrights now will just have to persevere

And I've spoken to soon. Turned his nose on breakfast this morning,cheeky