Dog Eating

[rockyracoon]

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.

[chaptazbru2]

So all he gets is dried food all the time ?

[Peaspeculiars]

I know cats prefer shallow dishes, perhaps the bowl is slightly too deep so he moves it away to a flatter surface? I wonder what he would do if you served his dinner on a shallow plate - would be interesting to find out...?

[rockyracoon]

Most of the time chap, yes.

[chaptazbru2]

Poor thing !

[rockyracoon]

Hmmm, that would be easy to give a try Peas. I'll do it today to see if it makes a difference.

[chaptazbru2]

Try giving him something else to eat as well !

[Peaspeculiars]

Good luck with that Rocky, hope it helps x

[chaptazbru2]

Why are you giving him a kiss, the poor thing only gets the same boring food all the time ...

[Peaspeculiars]

Chap, my dog is also on dry food for his meals - he is in the best health I have ever seen and it has no added colours or preservatives.
Some dogs stomachs simply don't agree with wet/ tinned/ raw food/ plain meat.
He has treats and pigs ears, so he has some variety.

[ladybirder]

You could check here to see how good the food is that you are feeding him. He sounds a right character.
http://www.allaboutdogfood.co.uk/the-dog-food-directory

[rockyracoon]

Chap, why don't you bore off any annoy someone else.

[rockyracoon]

Thanks Ladybirder, I'll have a look at that later.

[pastafreak]

Of course he likes meat...its instinctive. Maybe you should switch to a raw food diet..RATTER knows about that.

[rockyracoon]

I did look into it a while ago and if my memory serves me well, it wasn't easy.

[DTCwordfan]

The spaniel here walks around all day with his bowl in his mouth, as if he is a reincarnated Buddhist monk looking for alms......

[Peaspeculiars]

..and does he get any DT?

[rsvp]

RR I've just got a 9year old rescue dog - always fed kibble - changed him to raw diet - he loves it and is doing well on it. It does take a bit of organising but isn't as difficult as it first seems (and you can teach an old dog new tricks!) -any and all bones fed must be given raw - start him off with chicken neck or wings and avoid big weight bearing bones from heavy animals, too tough and might break his teeth. Check out the BARK diet - give your dog a bone by Dr. Ian Billinghurst.

[rsvp]

Typo - should read The Barf diet by Dr Ian Billingurst. Think it stands for Biologically acceptable raw food.

[rockyracoon]

Do they need the bones? He gets very bad diarrhoea if he has them

[rsvp]

were they raw or cooked?