Have I mentioned how stubborn Bodie can be?!? I started a bad thing with him when we got him last summer. It turned out that our new puppy had an intestinal infection that made him lethargic, and he did not have much of an appetite. Medication took care of his infection, but he still had a very poor appetite. In order to get him to eat better, I started adding a little something to his dog food at every meal - a little milk, a bit of bologna, a few table scraps, or something like that. Well, instead of stimulating his appetite all it did was make Bodie even more finicky. I freely admit that I was wrong, but what could we do?
My sweetie put her foot down, and decided on Monday that we would no longer doctor up his food. Bodie is getting a really high quality (and expensive!) dry dog food. She decided that if he didn't eat his dinner in a reasonable length of time, the dish would be picked up and he would have to wait for his next mealtime. I promised not to feed him anything other than his regular food.
Well, it turns out that Bodie is even more stubborn than my sweetie! He didn't eat any dinner on Monday. He didn't eat breakfast on Tuesday, and he refused to eat anything for dinner that night either. After failing to get him to eat breakfast on Wednesday, we both felt we were stressing too much. We gave in. My sweetie got some canned dog food, and we are mixing a little of it with his dry food. He is inhaling his meals! Oh, what a stubborn puppy!
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