Re: [rawfeeding] Stubborn Animals

He's eating chicken again. He passed on the duck foot tonite, though.
The puppy ate his. Big baby.. :p

I found out (by accident) that the dogs will eat everything I have out
if I leave them blocked in the kitchen by themselves for an hour. If
there are people in & out, Fozzy won't eat. Moxie will, but Fozzy
apparently wants privacy. It's hard to make sure Fozzy's not eating
Moxie's food that way, though. I might try to feed them separately for
a bit until they get more efficient at munching bones.

The ferret has graduated to larger pieces of fish (anchovy), and has
chewed all of the "flesh" off of a fish head.. I THINK she might have
eaten the one from last night. I gave her more fish and a duck foot
tonite. We'll see how she does. She's very excited when I come to her
cage, now. Unfortunately, her "owner" (my daughter) is a vegetarian and
is having a hard time with all of this. :p

The cat. I've now gotten her to eat small pieces of anchovy mixed with
tuna and egg (put the shell in the mix, too). We'll play with that for
a bit... increasing meat/decreasing tuna.. see how that goes. At least
she's eating, and she actually came to me when I put her food down
tonite. Small successes, but successes.... :)

Thanks, everyone, for the tips and encouragement. :)

Virginia in Milwaukee

anjumdanielle wrote:
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> Hi Virginia - my dog doesn't like chicken either. We started w/
> chicken when I switched him in Feb, but he never was enthusiastic
> about it. I probably only waited about a week until I started trying
> other things, and just like your situation, after he had pork & beef,
> he didn't want chicken again. 3 days seems to be his limit too -
> he'd refuse chicken for 3 days before giving in. Interesting side
> note: I recently found out he hates rabbit more than anything, so
> after refusing rabbit for 5 days, I gave him chicken for 2 days & he
> actually ate it! He still doesn't really like it, and he eats other
> stuff, so I don't get to worked up over it, but sometimes all that's
> out is chicken!
>
> About the cat - they are notoriously stubborn! There are a lot of
> sneaky (& not so sneaky) ways to get them to try a little. I can't
> recall, but have you posted in the RawCat group? It's great for
> helping stubborn kitties!
>
> HTH - Anjum

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