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I previously had my dogs on Purina Dog Chow, until reading about how crappy that is, and switched them to 4health chicken and rice. They're doing well on the new food, but the pug isn't eating much of it. The guidelines say 1 cup a day, and for the first 4-5 days she was eating that much. Now she'll eat only 1/2 cup a day, sometimes I can get her to eat 3/4 of a cup, but for the most part she just eats her 1/2 cup in the morning and then turns her nose up to the evening serving. She's even gone so far as to get in her crate and lay down when I call her to her food bowl. (That's where she goes if I am calling her to do something that she doesn't want to do..)
She's a small dog, weighs 13 lbs. I know the guidelines are just suggestions and estimates..but could she really be getting enough to eat with only 1/2 cup a day? She does not like treats much..so she maybe gets one or two small ones a day. She's active in spurts but she does spend a good part of the day laying around. She's also about 5 years old if that makes any difference.
Thank you for any suggestions you guys can give me!
I've also tried giving her a full 1 cup in the morning, thinking maybe she just didn't like to eat at night..but nope, she'll eat about 1/2 a cup and leave the rest in the bowl.
She's a small dog, weighs 13 lbs. I know the guidelines are just suggestions and estimates..but could she really be getting enough to eat with only 1/2 cup a day? She does not like treats much..so she maybe gets one or two small ones a day. She's active in spurts but she does spend a good part of the day laying around. She's also about 5 years old if that makes any difference.
Thank you for any suggestions you guys can give me!
I've also tried giving her a full 1 cup in the morning, thinking maybe she just didn't like to eat at night..but nope, she'll eat about 1/2 a cup and leave the rest in the bowl.