Another "Yorkie not eating" thread

[Holly_Wood]

Hi there ...

I know there are other threads on this subject but cant find any right now. My little girl is 3 and a half months now. Got her at 12 weeks old and in the first few days swapped her from Purnia puppy kibble the "breeder" had her on to Royal Canin yorkie puppy kibble. She ate it for the first week on and off, some times took her a day to eat on serving. I started mixing a tea spoon of Wellness puppy canned food in and she'd eat it slowly through out the day and sometimes she'd eat her morning serving by about 2pm and then her evening serving by 9pm .... this lasted about a week.... so then mixed in plain yogurt and the same thing as the wet food for a week .... then tried a combination of wet food and or yogurt with the same results ...

No I feel like I'm throwing out more than she's eating ... mixing stuff in makes it go all grody and hard if it sits there all day and night .... as an experiment I put just wet food in the bowl and she nibbled on it and then it sat there all day ......

So the delema is do I try some other type of dry food? .. really don't want to have to do the buying different food dance for weeks on end ...

Or do I put a bowl of dry food down and then leave it there till she eats it ? she has no problem eating little jacks training treats and I'm sure she'd eat a bowl of them if she was allowed :-P .. she also will eat chicken jerky no problem ...

The other problem I have is if she does get a healthy treat that she like she will play with it and throw it about as Yorkies do and the black Lab here usually ends up eating it ... my wife just lets it happen if I'm not around to stop it getting snatched ... also in the morning the black lab has always gotten a raw marrow butcher bone ... so Holly gets one too ... its to big for her to get any of the goodness out of it and usually the black lab ends up with 99% of it ....

Anyway another long post ... my vet says I should just leave the food there and she'll eat it when she's hungry enough ...... why are they so darn picky this little devils ? :-) :-)

[YorkieSpirit1]

my Emy is a year and a half, and she started this about 2 months ago, just walking away from her food, I tried everything....she would just sniff it and walk away....I kept throwing away canned food, cause once it was opened and I put it in the fridge...she wouldn't have anything to do with it...she would eat it just opened for a day then next day nothing..so in the trash it would go....I have about 6 different varieties of kibble in my pantry along with different varieties of canned food, and also the rehydrated raw food, along with the dehydrated food....she thinks this is a restaurant or something...but I have found she evidently likes everything fresh only, so I have started to make a tablespoon at a time of Sojos..rehydrate it and she will eat it, same with Honest Kitchen...so I make it fresh everytime...she also eats Stella & Chewy complete raw food wafers if I give her one or two every couple of days...but to give her the same thing everyday...she won't eat it...drives me nuts...so I just keep a big variety of every type of dog food in my pantry and if she sticks her nose up at one of them in the morning, I will just go to the next until I find the one she has decided to eat...crazy!!! At my last trip to the feed store they gave me a couple of sample cans of Weruva...chunky funky chicken....she really liked that yesterday when I gave her some...if she doesn't eat she is one that will throw up the yellow bile if her stomach is empty, so I try to get some type of food down her everyday even if it looks like I have a petfood store in my pantry..LOL

[IDPiper]

I also have a very picky little girl!! Piper is a year old and I have tried so many different foods on her and most of them she'll eat the first time but after that turns her nose up at it. Ugh, it's so frustrating!! I have resorted to home cooking for her at this time so she gets something different at every meal and so far it is working. i just need to do some research on the vitamin thing as I have heard that if vitamins aren't chelated that like people vitamins aren't absorbed but passed through so therefore a big waste of money. I feel that when you eat the right foods that you don't need vitamins but that's just me! When she refuses to eat I usually just give her some boiled chicken and she'll eat that even though I know it's not a balanced meal.

Piper refuses to eat kibble in any manner eg. mixed, wet, dry.

This whole feeding a picky yorkie thing is giving me gray hair!!! :/

[lovespandp]

I had the same problem with Peanut, as well as allergy problems I also had to deal with him nit picking his food. It seemed he never really enjoyed it. I started him on Canine Caviar Open Sky. I never seen him eat his food with nothing added to it. His allergy problems have cleared up 100% and he really enjoys his food.

Peanut is rather sensitive, so he doesn't get a lot of treats. He really only gets his Wellness Pure treats or Buddy Biscuits.. a couple times a month I will boil a boneless chicken breast. In the morning I will put a couple pieces of shredded cheese on his food.. I’m talking like 5 shreds LOL. He isn’t really a morning eater, I like to leave the house knowing he has something in his belly.

Other than those food items he doesn't get anything. He has been super healthy too. I would highly recommend you trying Canine Caviar.

In the meantime have you tried putting boiled chicken as a topper? Or shredded cheese?

[YorkieSpirit1]

I bought a bag of Canine Caviar (chicken & pearl) ..she wouldn't and won't eat that either....she took a few kibbles at first, but after that nothing...

[lovespandp]

Originally Posted by YorkieSpirit1

I bought a bag of Canine Caviar (chicken & pearl) ..she wouldn't and won't eat that either....she took a few kibbles at first, but after that nothing...

Peanut wasn't really into the Chicken either- he is more into the higher priced protein Lamb, Buffalo, Duck etc

[Holly_Wood]

Originally Posted by lovespandp

In the meantime have you tried putting boiled chicken as a topper? Or shredded cheese?

The problem with any toppers is she just eats that or with in a weeks she's sick of that too .. I haven't tried the chicken stock thing yet .. I want to make sure I get an organic brand with really low sodium ...

I just mixed some pineapple flavored low fat cottage cheese in with her kibble and she licked up the cottage cheese ... well some of it and ate about 8 pieces of kibble and that's it .... going to leave it there till tonight and if she hasn't eaten it before going to bed will throw it out ...

I've wanted to go to a pre-packaged raw diet but don't want to commit to that if she's going to turn her nose up at that in a week ...

funny thing is last night I put all her food from her bowl into the Labradors bowl and got Nala (the Lab) to come and start eating it ... with in 5 seconds she was in there eating it and finished it off .... so it proves to me she can eat it if she wants to ....

Hoping this will sort itself out as I'm not going to do any specialty cooking to cater to her whims ... or have to put her food into the big dogs bowl and trick her into eating it every day ...

Someone needs to invent an irresistible food that Yorkies will eat and its good for them ... and it changes flavor every day so they think they are eating something different

[Teresiana]

I had to laugh at your thread title. What is it with Yorkies & their finicky ways?? I have a super duper picky eater. He only eats kibble when he's starving. He'll devour something one day, then turn his nose up at it the next. The only thing he'll eat with gusto & consistently is raw. Not premade raw, but a Prey Model Raw diet. It's w

[Teresiana]

Oops! On my iPhone & I hit post too soon. Anyway... It's work. But it's worth it to me. I've gotten him to the point that I free feed kibble in the morning. My other 2 eat it. Sometimes he'll eat it. If he doesn't want any, then he has to wait for his raw meal at night. I switch his proteins every few days so he doesn't get bored.

Have you tried freeze dried raw like Primal or Stella & Chewy's? Most picky pups will eat that. Yoshi will eat it for a day or 2. The trick with him is variety. Some say that variety makes them picky. But I've gotten to the point that I know his patterns, so I know when to offer him something different. And... he only gets treats during training time.

[IDPiper]

Piper has to have variety also but for some reason she doesn't like dog food. I finally started cooking for her because I was worried about her!!