So my family have recently adopted a beautiful 2yr old spaniel and we've called her Isla. We didn't get her from a shelter, we actually found an ad for her online because her original family were moving and couldn't take her with them. She has been good as gold, loves her toys, walks and is such a daddy's girl!
She drinks plenty of water throughout the day, but we just cannot get her to eat a meal. She'll eat treats when we're on walks (for training recall etc.) - she doesn't get lots maybe 5-10 nail-sized pieces a day. We've had to give her flea/worm pills wrapped in chicken/ham/peanut butter so no issues there.
Her original family gave us the bag of dry food she would normally eat, but when we got home she wouldn't eat it, so we've bought some different kinds of dry and nope she won't eat that either, we bought some tins of Pedigree wet food and she won't eat that either. The only time we can get her to eat it is literally piece by piece hand fed. I've tried drizzling peanut butter on it - nope. Mixing in some treats - nope. I read somewhere to maybe try getting her to eat the same time as us and nope she didn't eat a thing.
We're still getting used to her cues/body language but it really looks as if she's scared of the food. We've tried putting it in a bowl, on a plate, on a mat (i.e. slow feeder) or plain on the floor - and it legit looks like she's terrified of the food. We don't mind hand feeding her if that's what we have to do for a while but we just don't want her to think that's going to be forever!
Any advice or ideas would be great, thanks
She drinks plenty of water throughout the day, but we just cannot get her to eat a meal. She'll eat treats when we're on walks (for training recall etc.) - she doesn't get lots maybe 5-10 nail-sized pieces a day. We've had to give her flea/worm pills wrapped in chicken/ham/peanut butter so no issues there.
Her original family gave us the bag of dry food she would normally eat, but when we got home she wouldn't eat it, so we've bought some different kinds of dry and nope she won't eat that either, we bought some tins of Pedigree wet food and she won't eat that either. The only time we can get her to eat it is literally piece by piece hand fed. I've tried drizzling peanut butter on it - nope. Mixing in some treats - nope. I read somewhere to maybe try getting her to eat the same time as us and nope she didn't eat a thing.
We're still getting used to her cues/body language but it really looks as if she's scared of the food. We've tried putting it in a bowl, on a plate, on a mat (i.e. slow feeder) or plain on the floor - and it legit looks like she's terrified of the food. We don't mind hand feeding her if that's what we have to do for a while but we just don't want her to think that's going to be forever!
Any advice or ideas would be great, thanks
