My Chihuahua who I have had for almost 3 years recently stopped eating. I have her on the B.A.R.F. diet (for those of you who don't know it's Bones And Real Food, basically home cooking for your dog) - She has been on this diet her entire life and the only change has been a new addition to our family; a little Chihuahua boy. She started wanting to eat his food (kibble) and I worried since it wasn't something she was used to. Out of desperation to get her to eat, I let her have some.
When you have a dog quit eating like that, the first thing to do is ask yourself if there have been any changes in the dog's life/routine. A new family member, a family member leaves, or someone is ill. Moving to a new home.... In the case of the Chihuahua- it would be the new 'family' member. This is a big adjustment-there's bound to be jealousy and competition for attention. You need to give the 3 year old time with you w/o the pup. The more attention you give the pup, the more stressed and depressed the older dog will become. Don't make the older dog share her dishes, her bed, her favorite chair. You must respect her pack seniority. Don't give the pup attention in her presence. Feed the 2 dogs in different rooms, and make sure they have their own dishes. Feed at the same time morning and nite every day- put her food down for 10 minutes. If she doesn't eat it, pick it up and don't give her anything else until her next scheduled meal. She'll get hungry and eat.
This happened recently with one of our rescue dogs. He is very tiny and we were so worried that if he continued to refuse to eat, his blood sugar would drop like you said, and he can't afford to have that happen or to lose any more weight, either.
Since we feed dry food, I decided to try a bit of low sodium, low fat canned chicken broth drizzled over his food. Eureka! He loved it and has been happily eating his food ever since with no more refusal.
He only gets 1/4 C of food at each of his two feedings, and all it takes is about 2 tablespoons of broth. Whenever I need to open a new can, I pour the broth into a squeeze bottle and keep it in the fridge, then squeeze out just a bit over the dry food in each feeding dish at mealtime. So simple!
We discovered this little trick also keeps our other rescue dog from choking on her food from eating too fast. Now we have two very happy little dogs, and it's not an expensive fix at all.
I hope your little one perks up soon!
A jar of baby food, preferable chicken or beef usually gets them going enough to start eating again. The trick is to smash some on the roof of their mouth and then put just a spoonful on a plate in front of them. If they gobble it all up, wait a few minutes until they are really begging for more. Then when you get them started eating it regularly, start mixing it with their reg food.
I have a 3 year old Chihuahua who all her life hasn't eaten a lot and was getting skinnier and losing weight. The vet couldn't find anything wrong with her. Recently I started feeding her one a day dog vitamins (Head to Tail Vitamin +), and adding a raw egg to her food every couple of days and she has started filling out and eating lots just in a few days.
hi, I used to raise chihuahuas, they are something else, they are very temperamental dogs, they through fits and very jealous of there owners, the chihuahua you have probably is jealous of the small one if u just got her, the chihuahua is wanting more attention. I have one now and she still is jealous of my cat, mine is 11 years old.and another thing u don't need to be feeding her off of the table, thats not good for the chihuahua, but I know the temptations,
Sometimes my chi stops eating for no apparent reason. When that happens I give her abt a teaspoon of PeptoBismol. In just a little bit she's eating again. I frequently but not always hear her tummy "growling" when this happens, so I suspect gas or something stops her from eating. Hope this helps!
My sister has a huge lab male, with the same problem. He suddenly stopped eating, and he usually eats alot. The problem. Their other dog, a female, is in heat. I think he is just "in love", and wanting that and not his food for now. Could that be your dogs problem? Either jealous, or in love.
I own 5 chihuahuas, all fixed, thank goodness! (no problems ever with their eating.).
If your Dogies don't want to eat dog food then make them food that is ingestable to them like chicken and rice etc.. that is what i do and she (My Chihuahua) is a fatty healthy dog and she eats properly but make sure that what you make her is ingestable to the dog
Hi, first of all well done. Barf is the best way to feed your dogs!!! You say you prepare the food at home, have you tried purchasing the ready made Barf patties? I am in Australia and we buy Barf from Big Dog, where Barf is produced on site, otherwise it is available at pet super stores. The Barf comes in several different varieties chicken, lamb, roo etc. Do you also give the bones, being a small dog you could try cutting up chicken frames, turkey necks etc into smaller pieces to suit. We also buy fish heads...i know it sounds gross but it is so good for them. I applaud you for feeding your dog Barf, we have converted so many people, dry and processed foods are really not healthy for dogs. Ruby my shepherd x Husky, does get sick of certain bones at times, so I just chop and change from chicken to turkey to lamb and so on. Good luck :)
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