Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Quote: Mike Arnold
.... And pancreatic issues are a thought. ....
Yes. I was feeling around for pancreatitis on page one, and didn't read anything in the reply that struck me, but you are completely correct that anorexia can be the only apparent symptom. (Also, I'm not a health professional.)
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Quote: Betty Landercasp
Why are you making this a command? I do "wait", ie don't eat until I say "ok", but I don't have a command to eat. Sometimes they just aren't hungry. I let my dog decide about eating. If food remains after a few minutes I pick up the bowl. ...
Me too. My part is to say it's OK to eat now, rather than "you must eat."
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unfortunately she didn't eat tonight, so I'll try again tomorrow night. If she doesn't want to eat tomorrow night I plan on substituting her regular food for something she absolutely wouldn't refuse(some raw beef). .....
If you have any pancreatitis suspicions at all, you don't want to give high-fat red meat. (I'm also not a fan of mixing kibble and raw.)
Wouldn't cooked skinless chicken breast be just as tempting?
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If she's acting normally in every other way John, and I'm just guessing, but when you say submissive, I'm going to take that as also sensitive. I think it could be as simple as you've created this absolute obedience regarding her meals in her mind that a new food is a complete departure from what you've trained.
I'd let her skip a day and then give her the old food with no obedience, see if she relaxes and eats. Remember, its how she perceives things, not what we think. Someone elses dogs could think waiting in a place command is no big deal or a welcome part of meal time, but asking her to sit first may be huge pressure to her.
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I was also thinking a bad or slightly off bag of food.
Had a cat that was a chow hound & was barely eating a new bag of food. After about 1 week I decided to get another bag of the same food from a different source & he was fine & ate as usual. We suspected that there was something off about that bag & returned it to the store & never bought from them again & I never had the issue again from the source.
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An update on tonight: I decided to go an hour earlier than schedule. I tried putting her food in the bowl and tried a few different words "eat, go one, okay" as nicely as I could make my voice sound. And nothing. then I decided to just try with her 16oz cup I use to scoop her food, and she gladly eat that. I'm not sure if its her bowls but from tonight it seems like that might be it.
Don't know what this means.
And of course she still gladly eats from my hand if presented to her.
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And it's not a plastic bowl, right? It's glass or stainless steel?
And her tags don't hit the bowl's edge and jingle?
her regular one is stainless steel.
the only times I recall her collar hitting the bowl is when shes licking the bowl clean and really gets into licking all of the bowl clean.
I thought she was 4-5 mos old. At 15 mos the teeth are not the problem.
Didn't you say she hadn't been in heat yet? Perhaps she's coming into heat,though I would expect to see that when the daylight began to change to longer days rather than now.
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