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Recap: Simon basically quit eating since Sheepiepalooza. He got a little sick, cough, stuffy nose a few days after we got back but since we went to Vegas he is a lot better except for the eating part. Friday evening I went to the store and bought some Pedigree wet food. I opened it and he and the cat were trying to get to it before I put it in the bowl. I put one pouch in the bowl and he put his head in and didn't come back out until every little morsel was gone. I put a second pouch in his bowl and the same thing happened. I learned that happiness is defined by watching your dog eat, LOLOL. It seems that Simon is trying to put back on the nine lbs he lost in just a few days. I've tried the dried food alone again and he just looks at it and walks away. So now we are mixing the food and that seems to be ok with him. Today when I got home from work and let them out to take care of business, they came back in and Simon kept going to his bowl and then looking at me. Nudged his bowl and looked at me. Finally practically picked the darn thing up and threw it across the kitchen. I guessed correctly he REALLY wanted to eat!!! I'm hoping that eventually we can get him back to just dry( that wet food is expensive), but right now I'm just glad he's eating.

That's great news!

I'm so glad he's eating again

I was doing the same here - mixing dry and canned, they also get yogurt daily too.

I switched the brand of dry food - same thing. So, I switched again and they are loving it! No canned, even without the yogurt they all gobble it down.

You are right - happiness is watching your dogs eat!

YAY Simon, gobble gobble gobble it all up. :wink:

Congrats on his eating!

What a relief! I'm so glad he's gotten his appetite back.

Yay! I am so happy to hear it!! :phew:

I wonder, though, if there is some good reason he does not want to eat that particular bag of dry. In an abundance of caution, I thow out any food that both of mine reject multiple times for no apparent reason. I just had that happen with a new bag of food I had opened. They both refused it several times and went without eating. Brought home a different new bag and all is fine again. They've never rejected food before -- they are not finicky -- so it made me nervous as to what they might sense that I could not.

Hooray for Simon! Looks like things are starting to be on the bright side now.

I agree with Val. We've tossed a couple of bags over the years too. I figure it's cheaper to do that than pay extra vet bills. In fact, we did it last week.

Good job Simon.

Valerie wrote:

Yay! I am so happy to hear it!! :phew:

Dogs sense of smell is very intense......so I am sure, especially Chummy since she loves to eat, won't eat it, they know something is not right.

Dog food does get rancid quickly. Better to be safe. Dogs' noses know way before ours knowns. (I'm not even going to try to say that out loud)

I'm so glad he's eating again!

When I adopted Lucy 10 years ago, she was 30 pounds underweight because she wouldn't touch the dry food that they were giving her at the shelter. They thought something may have been wrong but it turned out she was finicky and her willpower not to eat junk outwilled her urge to eat at all. It's amazing a dog would let itself go hungry like that. After I tried a few different foods, I found that canned was all that she'd eat enough of to keep weight on. I was so happy that I let her get really fat, lol. Now she's at a perfect weight and lives on Merrick canned food and a few mouthfuls of Nutro Ultra dry as a snack every evening.

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