It probably takes longer to recover from abdominal surgery than one thinks.
Keep on feeding him mushy baby food! Look into how one feeds kidney dogs, they are picky because that last food gave them a tummy ache and they are hoping this food won't. It does and they will refuse it and be looking for yet another food that doesn't hurt digesting. Dogaware.com has lots of ideas to try.
One thing you might look into is making purees of the dog safe foods you are eating. If you are having rice, broccoli and baked chicken then bone the chicken, add a stalk of broccoli and spoon of rice to some water and blend if he cannot eat it in chunks. Do each separately if he might get picky about something. The nice smells of the food cooking, the sight of you preparing food and seeing you eat may help him want to eat. This worked in reverse when I was cooking for my kidney dog. She got a chicken and rice diet and every time I cooked for her I wanted homemade chicken soup for dinner! There are actually very few foods dogs shouldn't eat, onions and garlic, coffee and chocolate, macadamia nuts, grapes and a few others that are easily avoided. Just do your research before offering them! Most of the trouble people get into is too much of things that should be eaten in moderation like chicken skin.
No this isn't a long term balanced diet! If you come to some sort of equilibrium and want to continue with feeding fresh food then you will figure out at that point. For right now you can add in 1/2 measuring teaspoon of powdered dry egg shell to each pound of food as dogs need a huge amount of calcium compared to what humans require.
Keep on feeding him mushy baby food! Look into how one feeds kidney dogs, they are picky because that last food gave them a tummy ache and they are hoping this food won't. It does and they will refuse it and be looking for yet another food that doesn't hurt digesting. Dogaware.com has lots of ideas to try.
One thing you might look into is making purees of the dog safe foods you are eating. If you are having rice, broccoli and baked chicken then bone the chicken, add a stalk of broccoli and spoon of rice to some water and blend if he cannot eat it in chunks. Do each separately if he might get picky about something. The nice smells of the food cooking, the sight of you preparing food and seeing you eat may help him want to eat. This worked in reverse when I was cooking for my kidney dog. She got a chicken and rice diet and every time I cooked for her I wanted homemade chicken soup for dinner! There are actually very few foods dogs shouldn't eat, onions and garlic, coffee and chocolate, macadamia nuts, grapes and a few others that are easily avoided. Just do your research before offering them! Most of the trouble people get into is too much of things that should be eaten in moderation like chicken skin.
No this isn't a long term balanced diet! If you come to some sort of equilibrium and want to continue with feeding fresh food then you will figure out at that point. For right now you can add in 1/2 measuring teaspoon of powdered dry egg shell to each pound of food as dogs need a huge amount of calcium compared to what humans require.
