(08-15-2012, 01:24 PM)TreeClimber Wrote: Haopee, Do you dogs like their dog food? If the pieces are small, you can use those for dog training, too. Also, you can use baby carrots cut up into pieces. Other vegetables work good, too. If you have Cheerios, they can be broken up into many small pieces very easily.
At some point, you can work in praise in place of the treats so that you aren't using so many treats. There will be a point where you'll dog will be happy to get a scratch on the chin and a kind word. It takes time to get there, though.
I have a similar problem as you as my dog is small (10 lbs.) Though, she does not know the word "full" when it comes to food. If I kept feeding her, she would keep eating.
No, they don't enjoy their dog food too much, especially Buchi, who unfortunately was being fed people food for the past 2 years of his life. I had no control over this back then. But now, I'm encouraging him to eat dog food as he is extremely thin on my standards.
Chooey, is a tad picky because I changed her dog food to something of higher quality. The old one we fed them wasn't good for Shih Tzus so I switched to something more reliable-and more expensive .
I'm trying to slowly do away with the treats but Chooey's attention is very short when she doesn't smell any "incentives".
Well, at least your dog isn't picky. Thanks for reminding me the carrots. I recall Peanuts enjoying them very much. I might consider using crunchy vegetables again.
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