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PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:22 am 
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Silent Mouth
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Joined: 08 Apr 2008
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I have a 3 1/2 yr old gyp who's always made be curious about her feeding habits. She's always been relatively picky, not getting into too many treats or anything and rarely eats the full amount of food I give her. A day's amount will often last her 2-3 days, even when hunting.

For example, I hunted her Sunday night, fed her Monday morning, hunted her again Tuesday night, and she's only taken maybe a 1/2-cup from her bowl.

The vet says she's healthy, and she looks good. She's lean but muscular and about 60 pounds.

I've just never seen a dog of any kind eat so slowly and it still concerns me some, as it seems to be getting a bit worse, and I was wondering if any of you have experience with this.

For background, I used to feed her one brand of high protein, but when she really stopped eating that, I switched to Eukenuba Premium Performance about two months ago. She seemed to eat that better for the first 4 or 5 weeks, but now is falling back into the same pattern. Like I say, the vet says she seems fine, but it makes me nervous and am just looking for some advise/experience on this one.

I'm wondering if I shouldn't be switching her food occaisonally.

Thanks in advance.


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 Post subject: Re: Feed Patterns
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:59 pm 
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Tight Mouth
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I have got a english gyp that is the same way found out she had worms after i bought her took her to vet and got her wormed she still eats the same way. I feed retriever high protein from TSC in the blue bag. she is healthy and hunts on as regular basis. guess some dogs are just like that. good luck.


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 Post subject: Re: Feed Patterns
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:51 pm 
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I have two walker females the 3 yr old eats like a horse, the 18 month old does about the same as ur talkn bout . She's healthy full of energy hunt till sun up, but drives me nuts cause the way she eats. I guess she eats when she's hungry just less than Im used 2


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