Welcome! 82nd Airborne Division Veteran, Sailor, Motorcyclist, Dog Lover, Photographer and Traveler. My channel focuses on BMW airhead content, sailing/regatta race videos, Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe race videos and some Chocolate Lab & Pitbull mix content. There will be some occasional travel videos posted as well.
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That's exactly how my log canoe race career started ... Just wanted to do this once. I was addicted immediately. Four years on Flying Cloud now. There often is need for crew. Get connected to fellow log canoe sailors, we can make that happen!
@@KarlaSanchez-pl5ss I race on plenty of modern boats, once I got to race on one of these, I was hooked. There is something about these boats that you won’t appreciate until you have been on one.
Yes but try on a paper towel or paper plate secured with a wet paper towel. My dog did this but will now eat from one of the above. But absolutely not from food a dish, only water and she enjoys a shallow water bowl. So weird but ya gotta love them. 😂
That is an interesting idea. You mean put a paper towel in her existing dish? It is kind of endearing though and does form a bond of sorts. And yeah - gotta love them for sure!
@@andymueller82 First start with a paper towel with a little food on it but alongside the bowl with a tiny bit of kibble in it, then after awhile if they haven’t moved to the bowl, place the paper towel in the bowl. I still have one that prefers a paper towel but when hungry enough will go to the bowl. My dogs are small and didn’t try to eat the paper towel… just be sure to remove it so they don’t. Let me know how it goes?
While we're all guessing, your dog may also not like how dry the food is, and may just find it easier to eat and more appealing with you giving it to them bite by bite. If you pour some chicken broth in and they devour it, thats probably what it is. Most vets recommend adding moisture to store bought dog and cat food anyway, so it's good for them anyways. And if they just want to be your handfed baby you can start adding in broccoli and sweet potatoes, raw meat, eggs, as you like, it's much healthier to cut half the kibble out and replace it with real food anyways.
Yeah, the weird thing is that she won't do this for the dinner meal. Only breakfast. I do like your thought on adding a little moisture via chicken broth. And of course yes, adding more "natural" food has got to be better than the kibbles. I did have a Cockapoo that lived for 21yrs on mostly kibbles, so i guess it can also "work".
Sometimes if my girl won't eat her food I hand feed her, yes it's wet meat and it's gross to get under my nails but my bub has to eat, I secretly think she does it just so I will feed her 🤣😂🤣😂
Yes, when I got mine, she had to be fed this way, but mine was home made wet food 😂. And she was scared to eat at first (adopted rescue puppy), then it just became a thing. And at first I was happy to do so, just to help with bonding. But eventually I trained it out of her. Now she eats out of the bowl. I had to offer her the food, when she rejected it, I let her skip a meal to get her really hungry, (she eats plenty, so skipping a meal was not a problem at all). The next time she rejected it again, and I put her back in the crate for 10 minutes and then tried again, and she ate it immediately. Following day I repeated the latter (putting her in her crate once food was rejected for 10 minutes), and she got it straight away. Now she eats with no issues. Never leave the bowl down. Make sure the bowl is always picked up and put away. This helps them distinguish when it's time to eat. Otherwise they might graze. I've made this mistake before And I've had to train this out of a dog before (same method).
First, adopting a rescue puppy is just a wonderful way to give these pups another chance of a good life. My Chocolate Lab was a rescue and she is turning into the greatest dog ever. I do like your crate training in regards to her eating from her bowl. Will try that, thank you!
sometimes its a trust thing, you have to train them to start trusting the bowl, a hungry dog will for sure eat from a bowl sooner or later, just leave it for them. once they do reward with a good snack to reinforce the behavior.
Perhaps the problem is the metal bowl, for some dogs the noise the food makes in there is uncomfortable. Try a different one to see if she starts eating normally.
