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Due to building work being done in the house, the dog's food and water bowls have been brought into the living room. He has a very strange habit of taking a mouthful of dried food and dropping it 3-4 feet away from his bowl, he then proceeds to pick a couple of bits out to eat and leaves the rest. I just though he was a messy sod whilst his food was in the kitchen but he has probably been doing this for years.
Any idea why he does this? It's driving me bonkers.
Any idea why he does this? It's driving me bonkers.
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My dog gets mixture - dried food, a wee bit of chicken, wet food - like that he picks out the chicken and maybe wet food - dried food left behind. Hours later I look and the dried food is gone too.
Bones I have given him give him very bad constipation so I have stopped now. no bones. My vet told me with Harvey a dog will never ever starve - they descend from wolves who maybe in the woods had to wait for 7 days to get food. If the food is there they will eat it eventually.
Bones I have given him give him very bad constipation so I have stopped now. no bones. My vet told me with Harvey a dog will never ever starve - they descend from wolves who maybe in the woods had to wait for 7 days to get food. If the food is there they will eat it eventually.
Mac eats everything RR - with the raw food diet you have to blitz veggies to pulp - so that it resembles the digested food in a prey animals gut - as dog's have no molars they can't grind food up and veggies need to be ground to release the goodies - maybe this diet is not for your woofie though if bones upset his system. Interesting point from Ladybirder - it seems vet's are divided on their opinions about this - I'm all for it although as a concession to Mac's age I do cut up his chicken carcasses.
I heard a vet (Pete the Vet from facebook) say recently that there is no right or wrong diet for a dog. You have to find a diet that the animal likes, thrives on and is also affordable and easily obtained by the human.
There is nothing wrong with a diet of only dried food as long there is access to plenty of fluids.
There is nothing wrong with a diet of only dried food as long there is access to plenty of fluids.
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It makes dogs slow down with their eating, believe me it works, I think you will find that your dog will eat every bit from the dish without moving food to somewhere else.
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It makes dogs slow down with their eating, believe me it works, I think you will find that your dog will eat every bit from the dish without moving food to somewhere else.
When you say soft, what do you mean? He can't eat tinned food as it gives him diarrhoea and I've tried them cartion type meals - Nature something or other and he wasn't too keen. Once or twice a week I put some fish in his food (pilchards or the like), he enjoys this mixed in. If he has chunks of meat like chicken he does tend to do the same as with the dried food, although he tends not to leave it very long before going back to it. Though, now his food is in the living room, I put it straight back into his bowl, much to his disgust :)
