Doodle Eating Habits

[Jacquie Yorke (DRC)]

I'm curious...Does anyone else have doodles that are a bad eaters?.....Blake will leave his food in his bowl the entire day, sticking his nose up at it no matter what it is....Even chicken!...Then I will either hear his collar hitting the bowl at about 2 or 3 in the morning or I will wake up and the food will be gone.....

[Jacquie Yorke (DRC)]

Wow!....What a healthy guy!....Seaweed...I can't believe it!....Blake is a junk food junkie compared to Lincoln. He does love the plain yogurt that I give him...and his peanut butter in the Kong treat....His absolute favorite is the Cadet dried chicken breast....He opens the drawer and pulls out the package if I forget to give him one.....

He doesn't care for carrots...he likes bananas and apples. Likes brown rice..doesn't like oatmeal but Shhhh....I sneak it into his doggy meatloaf!..ha ha!..and yes..he loves his bully sticks...(hard to believe that they are dried bull penis'!...I never knew that before my groomer told me....)

[2zw8n9vphfrc6]

At first i was concerned since our other three dogs have always had a great appetite however since have learned that dogs naturally will fast for days etc. I actually usually will fast them ( meal but still treats) 1x a week to give their system a healing break.

michele

[2b06k8j6scx1s]

I have a bad eater and a good eater. Iker will eat a lot and fast. Nadal looks at his bowl and turns around. Then, two or three feedings later he will eat his 2 cups and more. He's not going to starve himself and he's very healthy, I don't worry much.

[1v200f3rbrnxk]

my doodles both LOVE to eat their meals .......i feed 2 times a day

I tried free feeding but mine seem to devour their food if i serve two meals a day.
they do get treats sometimes like plain yogurt, yam/sweet potato/ canned pumpkin, pineapple. Whether it's Kibble or homemade food, my doodles REMIND me daily if i go a minute past meal time ...Max will move the food bowls across the floor towards me, then try to whine/talk.

for ME, if one of my doodles won't eat we know there is a problem or illness

[Roni & Roxy]

Our Roxy is 10 months old and has been a good eater up until a couple of weeks ago. She's just very finicky! She has been vomiting bile from an empty stomach, too. I took her to the vet yesterday, and he suggested Pepcid AC and putting her on prescription ID Diet. She ate this morning...yay! She hasn't shown interest in breakfast for days!

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Please join our Food Group for information regarding the ID Diet. You can save yourself a lot of money and get much better food for her. But we are not Vets so you have to decide what works best for you.

[Roni & Roxy]

Thank you...I did join the Food Group, but I'm having trouble finding anything specific about the ID Diet. Is there a particular discussion you're referring to? I don't have time to read through everything there to find the pertinent information. Can you suggest a way to find it? I already did a search on "ID Diet," but it just brought up a bunch of threads, which I started to read, but it seems like searching for a needle in a haystack. 

[Roni & Roxy]

I went ahead and started a new discussion about ID Diet in the Food Group.

[Mary Witter & Casey R Doodle]

Yes!  Casey often does the same thing.  What a relief to know he's not the only one.  :~) 

[Donna Bay & Buzz]

Bay is the pickiest eater, even when it comes to treats. She will leave her food for hours.  Now I take it away and cover it in fridge and try again later.  Buzz, on the other hand...well, let's just say I entered to win the speed eater bowl, lol!  He could care less what's in the bowl, he's on it!

[Julie and Max]

My Max is a picky eater. I do add toppings, which I know a lot of people frown on, but he's a puppy and I feel like he needs to eat. If I did not add toppings he would just leave the dry food there (I did try no toppings) I do add things like pumpkin, yogurt and grain free canned food. He loves treats, freeze dried meat of any kind, mother hubbard cookies, bits of cooked meat. Fruit, veggies, pretty much anything. My DH is bad about giving Max stuff he should not have and I have to scold him all the time to stop giving the dog people food and he's finally starting to get it. He loves his kongs too I stuff them with a mixture of salmon packed in water, or tuna packed in water with yogurt, pumpkin and frozen peas and carrots then freeze them. Max also loves to eat dead things, any dead thing he can find on our walks, it's pretty gross. He is getting a bit better with that, but uggh. 

[Lynne Fowler-Oodles of Doodles]

Many of us do homecook for our dogs and it is not frowned upon to give dogs wholesome "people" food. They can and thrive on real foods but there are a few things to avoid (onions, raisins, grapes, chocolate). Anything else is fair game. My dogs love frozen veggies right from the freezer as treats. They eat chicken and brown rice with veggies added and by making it yourself, you know what ingredients are in it. Prescription Diets are not made with good ingredients and are always rated very low on recommendation list websites. There are also many good supplements with vitamins and probiotics that will help regulate their systems. I use Missing Link. I have been homecooking since the 2007 recalls that killed many dogs, including my std poodle, Magic.