Always Hungry...

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Griffin

Whatever it was,- I didn't do it!

Barked: Mon Feb 13, '12 4:22pm PST


	Griffin is 15 weeks old, weighs a whopping 2.7# and is eating a total of 3 oz of food in 3 meals per day. His weight is fine, actually borderline chunky lol. He gets beef, pork, chicken, turkey, fish in alternating meals with starting to introduce rabbit & game meat. He is ALWAYS hungry, ALWAYS snarfs his meal with the intensity & quickness that it is going to be his LAST meal ever, have tried feeding frozen, feeding in kongs, feeding in pieces...(btw he won't eat anything other than ground up bits at the moment as he is so tiny he doesn't have his teethers yet). He even eats his poop, I try to get it before he can but he will literally turn around and eat it RIGHT after if comes out. He gets daily balance, well essentially each meal is balanced (80% meat, 10% bone, 5% liver, 5% kidneys), he has had bloodwork done (isn't concentrating urine), but everything was normal. His coat was really yucky up until I started adding extra Fatty Acids (Usana Optomega Liquid & Salmon Oil), and it's now looking pretty good. Any ideas? He has actually choked himself a couple of times as he is trying to swallow an ice cube tray sized piece/chunk of meat in one gulp. Ziva my min pin did this but I was able to slow her down with frozen meals and kongs, Griff.....not so much.....nothing slows him down. Could he be missing some trace minerals or something? Edited by author Mon Feb 13, '12 4:25pm PST

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Charlie

The world is my- food bowl!

Barked: Mon Feb 13, '12 5:02pm PST


	I actually would up his food another ounce. Tiny breeds generally eat more food than other dogs, on top of the fact that this is a puppy. I would go for 10% of the body weight per day, that's 0.27 pounds NOT 2.7 ounces. 0.27 lbs = 4.32 ounces.

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Griffin

Whatever it was,- I didn't do it!

Barked: Tue Feb 14, '12 5:47am PST


	Charlie my only issue with increasing his food is he is on the verge of being FAT, his BCS is probably a 4 so I really don't want him getting too pudgy. His ribs are starting to disappear LOL. He is also getting treats (liver & lamb lung) during training so that adds calories etc. Right now he's getting roughly 7% of his body weight. My min pin Ziva didn't need 10% of her body weight when she was a puppy, but got about 7-8% as an adult to maintain. Edited by author Tue Feb 14, '12 5:50am PST

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Maxwell

I'm triple- superior MAD- now!

Barked: Tue Feb 14, '12 6:53am PST


	What if you try him on bony bits? Maybe if he has to spend more time attempting to eat he will calm down. Give him a whole beef rib or cornish game hen and after he gives up give him something he can actually eat? Be extremely adorable photo op watching him wrestle something as big as he is too.

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Griffin

Whatever it was,- I didn't do it!

Barked: Tue Feb 14, '12 6:32pm PST


	So far anything not chopped into bits or ground into an ice cube tray sized piece, he won't touch. I've tried giving him cornish hen pieces, rabbit pieces, ribs, and he won't even touch them. Yet grabs my friends puppies rawhide bones and chomps on them at work (yes I take them away). He's a stubborn one LOL! I'm wondering if digestive enzymes may be missing? As he is OBSESSIVE about eating poop. Drives me bonkers!

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Brody

Tiny boy, but he- has a huge- heart!

Barked: Wed Feb 15, '12 6:47am PST


	could you take his food and smash it onto a plate so he has to work to get it up and not just gulp down the chunk? I know an ounce is about the size of an ice cube, so I'm imagining it being smashed with a fork across a plate. Or maybe add some water to his food so that it's gravy consistency and he has to lick it up? The extra water would be good and might slow him down. You could certainly try the digestive enzymes. I know they are beneficial for some dogs.