Greta is now 10 months old. She is doing extremely well and is very smart. I have feed her raw food since we had her and now she doesn't seem to want it. A couple of weeks ago she stopped eating all the parts of the chicken except legs. She also stopped eating ground beef. So I only gave her legs. For the last couple of days she would only eat 1 or 2 legs a day. I got worried and gave her some dry food in the morning today and she ate it all. She is not sick and is still very active and happy. She is not losing weight and poop looks normal. It has been very hot down here in southern ca. and I am wondering if the heat has anything to do with it. Also air quality outside is not too good because of the fires.

Anyone had this problem before?

Anna

 Quote: anna anderson

Greta is now 10 months old. She is doing extremely well and is very smart. I have feed her raw food since we had her and now she doesn't seem to want it. A couple of weeks ago she stopped eating all the parts of the chicken except legs. She also stopped eating ground beef. So I only gave her legs. For the last couple of days she would only eat 1 or 2 legs a day. I got worried and gave her some dry food in the morning today and she ate it all. She is not sick and is still very active and happy. She is not losing weight and poop looks normal. It has been very hot down here in southern ca. and I am wondering if the heat has anything to do with it. Also air quality outside is not too good because of the fires.

Anyone had this problem before?

Anna

Jumping out at us:

"Not losing weight." "Not sick; active and happy."

This means to me that the first thing to look at is how much you are giving. So please give us her weight and how much RMBs/meat (in ounces) you give her per day.

I would not feed kibble and raw, even if the novelty was enough to make her eat it. I would examine the amount I was feeding, and possible problems with a batch of chicken. New brand? Gone bad (although my dogs would probably be thrilled if their meat went a little smelly-bad: just more flavor, don't you know)? Injected with something ("flavor enhancers")?

But quantity would be my first concern.

Hi Connie,

She is a long legged German Sheppard and weights 165 lbs. Looks like she is still growing a little and she looks like she is going to be like her mother, tall and thin.

I freeze the chicken parts in two day feedings. So they are never in the ref. more than 2 days. I don't see anything that says they are injected on the package.

I am not sure how much in ozs. I was giving her 2 legs, 2 wings, and 2 thighs a day. (she never did like the breast). She also got about a quarter lb. of ground beef in the morning in which I mixed different things in, sometimes a egg, sometimes yogurt, some times liver, etc. In this mix I put her fish and vit E in. She stopped eating the beef.

I had some Innova dog food left over from when I was making a mistake with her feeding when I first got her, that I now feed the crows ( My husband found a baby crow on the FWY walking about 6 years ago and we raised it and feed it cat food until she could fly and she still comes back once and a while to get feed with her new babies and family, incase you are wondering why I feed crows).

I learned from this web site not to feed raw and dry so when I gave her the dry yesterday, I made sure that she did not get feed raw until about 9 hours later. I just don't want her to start losing weight, she is a thin dog already.

She is not a food motivated dog like my last one and never really had a lot of interest in eating unless she was hungry. In fact when we train, she is not really interested in the treat, it is just part of the game for her. She loves the game more than the treat.

Need anymore info?

Anna

165 pounds?!

Also, " I was giving her 2 legs, 2 wings, and 2 thighs a day. (she never did like the breast)"
needs to be expressed in ounces.

So ... do you have a postal scale? Or can you make up a regular meal from a package that still has the weight-label on it?

I am thinking too that at this age, a growth phase may be tapering off. Maybe the puppy folks could address this.

But there's no real way to assess this without weights for the RMBs/meat because legs and wings could have much different weights, one package to another.

Connie,

How much, in weight, do you give your full grown dogs? Do you have a dog that weights about 165 lbs.?

Anna

 Quote: Connie Sutherland

165 pounds?!

She is very long, tall and thin and in no way looks over weight.

At 10mos., that's big even for a full grown Neapolitan Mastiff!

How did you weigh her?

 Quote: anna anderson

Do you have a dog that weights about 165 lbs.?

Anna

No, I don't. Never did, never will....

I was certain that you would say "Oh, I meant 65 pounds."

We need a picture. Please link us.

Kilos? that would be 75 lbs.
I agree...picture links!