4kids4karen
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 25, 2006
My 16 year old daughter adopted a 2.11 pound Cavachon Sunday. The problem is, she will not eat the food they said was "required" they sent us home with (for a cost) and we shouldn't change her food until this bag is gone. She had a new patient vet appointment on Monday.
Well, it's not working. Daughter weighted her dog yesterday at 2.7 pounds (different scale). We have five different types of food they sent us home with and a vitamin paste. Puppy likes the vitamin gel. She will spit out all four of the different dry food. The bag they gave us, and the ziploc bags of the dry food they said to try in a specific order if she rejected it. She rejects the wet food they sent with us as a "last option" as well. For breakfast this morning, DD had to go to school before she could get puppy to eat the food, so I spent the next hour mixing the gel and wet food half and half and basically force feeding her that. She is suppose to get either 1/8 cup of food four times a day or they said it is okay that we modified to the three times a day so DD can do the feedings (ideally, because our two other dogs DD says prefers me, so she wants HER dog to prefer her).
I am kinda at the end of trying this food. My co-worker says to try baby food as that is what her vet told her with her dog when he was a tiny puppy and rejected food. I am going to give this a try. I had planned to change the puppy food to Nutro brand that my other two dogs are on (that we buy on the military base for a better price), but now I am considering HUMAN GRADE food and probably wet food.
So, what HUMAN GRADE food brands do you recommend?
I even left some food in her kennel when I went to work. We have a puppy cam on her. She didn't touch the food, she just slept for five hours until DD came home from school.
Well, it's not working. Daughter weighted her dog yesterday at 2.7 pounds (different scale). We have five different types of food they sent us home with and a vitamin paste. Puppy likes the vitamin gel. She will spit out all four of the different dry food. The bag they gave us, and the ziploc bags of the dry food they said to try in a specific order if she rejected it. She rejects the wet food they sent with us as a "last option" as well. For breakfast this morning, DD had to go to school before she could get puppy to eat the food, so I spent the next hour mixing the gel and wet food half and half and basically force feeding her that. She is suppose to get either 1/8 cup of food four times a day or they said it is okay that we modified to the three times a day so DD can do the feedings (ideally, because our two other dogs DD says prefers me, so she wants HER dog to prefer her).
I am kinda at the end of trying this food. My co-worker says to try baby food as that is what her vet told her with her dog when he was a tiny puppy and rejected food. I am going to give this a try. I had planned to change the puppy food to Nutro brand that my other two dogs are on (that we buy on the military base for a better price), but now I am considering HUMAN GRADE food and probably wet food.
So, what HUMAN GRADE food brands do you recommend?
I even left some food in her kennel when I went to work. We have a puppy cam on her. She didn't touch the food, she just slept for five hours until DD came home from school.