Hi all,
I am new to the forum and apologize in advance as I am sure this has been discussed.
I have a 1 year old female golden retriever. This is our first dog. I have two cats and have always filled their food bowls and allowed them to eat at leisure.
With Misty (our pup) we started her on Eukanuba. She ate three times a day till about 9 months then she simply just stopped eating. Changed to Science Diet and she ate that for about three weeks then stopped. Visited friends and she gobbled up their supermarket cheap dog food. Then changed her to Hills and that also only lasted for a week or so. Then totally desperate I was advised to feed her a canadian brand food for picky eaters that is new to South Africa. She didn't even try it.
I was then told to give her chicken and rice. I then cooked up chicken livers and mixed that with brown rice and mixed veggies. All fine. Then I was told to add pumpkin seeds. Did that and still all good. Was then advised livers might be too rich and now changed over to either chicken or duck mince. She has this twice a day. I also give her conditioning pills to fill in any gaps in her diet.
Now she has stopped eating this too. Her tummy is still regular and her energy levels okay. She will naturally eat any table scraps.
What must I be feeding her ? I tried to do the removing her food till next mealtime but my heart breaks and I end up giving her brown bread or eggs or something cause I can't bare the thought of her going hungry.
Any advice will be most welcomed as I want to do right by our lil girl.
I am new to the forum and apologize in advance as I am sure this has been discussed.
I have a 1 year old female golden retriever. This is our first dog. I have two cats and have always filled their food bowls and allowed them to eat at leisure.
With Misty (our pup) we started her on Eukanuba. She ate three times a day till about 9 months then she simply just stopped eating. Changed to Science Diet and she ate that for about three weeks then stopped. Visited friends and she gobbled up their supermarket cheap dog food. Then changed her to Hills and that also only lasted for a week or so. Then totally desperate I was advised to feed her a canadian brand food for picky eaters that is new to South Africa. She didn't even try it.
I was then told to give her chicken and rice. I then cooked up chicken livers and mixed that with brown rice and mixed veggies. All fine. Then I was told to add pumpkin seeds. Did that and still all good. Was then advised livers might be too rich and now changed over to either chicken or duck mince. She has this twice a day. I also give her conditioning pills to fill in any gaps in her diet.
Now she has stopped eating this too. Her tummy is still regular and her energy levels okay. She will naturally eat any table scraps.
What must I be feeding her ? I tried to do the removing her food till next mealtime but my heart breaks and I end up giving her brown bread or eggs or something cause I can't bare the thought of her going hungry.
Any advice will be most welcomed as I want to do right by our lil girl.