Hello
Just joined this forum and am looking for some advice please.
My Romanian JackChi, Rudi, has been with me for 7 years (he's 9 but vet seems to think he is more like 12/13). Rudi has had a lot of health problems of which the latest is liver disease causing hepatic encephalopathy. This meant he was literally on deaths doorstep six months ago. I had to change his diet so he didn't have any of the wrong type of protein.
Rudi was so poorly, and wasn't eating anything. The vet said he doesn't have long left so just give him whatever he'll eat. I started giving him human food I know he likes as he'd lost a lot of weight. Eggs, salmon, cream cheese, rice, pasta, pork etc.
Rudi takes antibiotics and steroids long term to manage the liver disease but the problem I have now is that he is bored with the human food. What he likes one day he won't eat again and I end up cooking lots of different meals until he'll eat. I've tried dog food again; he point blank refuses wet and dry food but will eat raw food sometimes.
I am literally at my wits end of how to get Rudi to eat and it's really getting me down because I worry that I've made a rod for my own back by giving him human food despite this being the vet advice. I just want him to eat a balanced diet.
He seems pretty stable on the medication and doesn't display the hepatic encephalopathy symptoms. He cannot have anything chicken based as that's the wrong type of protein. I've ordered some meals from "different dog" to try but just really want him to eat dog food without pestering me for human food that I cook/make that he won't eat.
I've spoken to the vet but they are not concerned because he's not losing weight.
Can anyone help please?
Just joined this forum and am looking for some advice please.
My Romanian JackChi, Rudi, has been with me for 7 years (he's 9 but vet seems to think he is more like 12/13). Rudi has had a lot of health problems of which the latest is liver disease causing hepatic encephalopathy. This meant he was literally on deaths doorstep six months ago. I had to change his diet so he didn't have any of the wrong type of protein.
Rudi was so poorly, and wasn't eating anything. The vet said he doesn't have long left so just give him whatever he'll eat. I started giving him human food I know he likes as he'd lost a lot of weight. Eggs, salmon, cream cheese, rice, pasta, pork etc.
Rudi takes antibiotics and steroids long term to manage the liver disease but the problem I have now is that he is bored with the human food. What he likes one day he won't eat again and I end up cooking lots of different meals until he'll eat. I've tried dog food again; he point blank refuses wet and dry food but will eat raw food sometimes.
I am literally at my wits end of how to get Rudi to eat and it's really getting me down because I worry that I've made a rod for my own back by giving him human food despite this being the vet advice. I just want him to eat a balanced diet.
He seems pretty stable on the medication and doesn't display the hepatic encephalopathy symptoms. He cannot have anything chicken based as that's the wrong type of protein. I've ordered some meals from "different dog" to try but just really want him to eat dog food without pestering me for human food that I cook/make that he won't eat.
I've spoken to the vet but they are not concerned because he's not losing weight.
Can anyone help please?