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.

[jennyjoan]

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.

[rockyracoon]

Raw. I don't give him cooked ones. What about the veg business? Does your dog eat it? Ours will only eat cucumber and on occassion a tiny bit of carrot.

[ladybirder]

Rsvp, my vet asked me to stop giving my dog raw chicken with bones as it was too dangerous. On asking why, she said. "if you had done as many operations as me where bones have stuck in their throats and worse you wouldn't do it, raw or cooked." So I stopped.

[rsvp]

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.

[DTCwordfan]

Nope no alms outside his dinner, but the downfall is the mater.....

[wolf63]

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.

[Retrochic]

Thank god this thread is not what I thought it was about ;-) Think it should be in 'Animals and Nature'. Then again I do have a nice recipe for pug en cocotte ;-)

[rockyracoon]

Lol, I thought I'd put it Animals and Nature.

[chaptazbru2]

There is plenty wrong with a diet of only dried food, it is boring and unfair on the dog to only eat the same old thing over and over again. It's like us eating nothing but chips ALL THE TIME !!

[rockyracoon]

Blah blah blah!

[chaptazbru2]

Same to you ........

I say again POOR DOG !!!

[rockyracoon]

I'll never justify myself to the likes of you so you may as well go somewhere else.

[chaptazbru2]

PMSL .......

[chaptazbru2]

Oh and if you don't care for 'the likes of me', don't post threads then, I am entitled to my opinion !

Got to go now to get tea on, so please don't think you will be having the last say just because I don't get back to you .....

[rockyracoon]

Haha, I'm not getting into a slaggin match with you, you just ain't worth it.

You can have the last word if it means so much to you. Go on, you know you want to......

[whiskeryron]

We got one of these for our Labrador pup

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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.

[rockyracoon]

Thanks Ron. He doesn't gulp, just drops a mouthfuls over the floor.

[ladybirder]

So if you have him soft food rr, wouldn't that stop him doing it?

[rockyracoon]

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 :)

[Old_Geezer]

Oh... from the title I was expecting dog recipes.

I like a hot dog.