Pups getting too aggressive????

I think that when he gets hungry enough, he'll probably eat. It would not surprise me at all if he was enjoying the attention you're giving him, they're such smart dogs that they manipulate us without us even realizing it. I am definitely one of those people. :rolleyes2:
 
I'm having similar issues with Maia and Chinook. Chinook is almost 1 and Maia is 7 months. She inhales her food, Chinook takes a little longer (1-2 minutes). When she is done, she goes over to his dish and eats his. She just pushes him out of the way and eats it. He lets her. Sometimes, Chinook will not take his food, or bones if she is there. I have to physically remove her from the area so he can eat. I always have to 'guard' him and his food from her. She will steal everything from him. If he tries to get near something like a bone that she is chewing, she will sometimes growl at him. (I can ALWAYS take it away from her without issues) Now, here is the really weird thing: after they are finished eating, and I let her go, she will run over to Chinook and start gnawing at his nose! - almost like she is mad at him for eating all the food (his food).
 
labgirl said:
Just a thought - would Bacca go in a covered crate with the door shut and eat in there? Most dogs derive a real sense of security from a crate, I know the crate is the only place my boy will truly sleep (he is a bit insecure).

If it was covered with a big blanket it would make it like a nice little cave, then you could leave him to it.
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I tried to feed him in his crate (its a soft-sided, so already very snug). No luck. He just sulks.

He's starting to pick up the pace a little and is now mostly finishing his bowl. But still only if he's tucked in the corner beside my chair. I keep Indy in his crate till Bacca is finished, and he's not complaining.

It works, but it does not solve the root cause, unfortunately - whatever that is! :confused2:
 
BarbV said:
I tried to feed him in his crate (its a soft-sided, so already very snug). No luck. He just sulks.

He's starting to pick up the pace a little and is now mostly finishing his bowl. But still only if he's tucked in the corner beside my chair. I keep Indy in his crate till Bacca is finished, and he's not complaining.

It works, but it does not solve the root cause, unfortunately - whatever that is! :confused2:
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Ah, the root cause! That's easy: Sheltie Pigonosis!!! :lol: We have a bad case at our house!
 
Well, he ate his breakfast this morning in two separate sittings, but won't eat his dinner.

I'm not going to do any more extraordinary measures for him over the next few days. He knows where the food is. If he's hungry enough, I guess he will eat! And if he starts doing it on his own, instead of by my cajoling him into it, then he might just get over the issue entirely.

I don't think he'll starve in a day or two of this. What do you think?
 
This winter Sadie went through a period were she was completely terrified of people she wasn't around all of the time. This included family members that she knew well, including my husband's identical twin! She'd always been reserved with strangers but never downright fearful. Sadie is around the same age as your two, she will be two in the middle of August.

I think its possible he's just going through a phase, he'll probably snap out of it eventually. He certainly won't starve if he misses a couple of meals and will probably just start eating again out of hunger. Sadie eventually snapped out of her sudden fear and is back to her old self.
 
Quirky, isn't it ??

Why all of a sudden, why sometimes ... ? Who knows ?

My brother's labrador stopped eating his breakfast because he was worked up over a female somewhere in the neighborhood (of our office) that was in heat.

I have to separate my two dogs as well. Snap (the gobbler) only is fed in his crate; and Capers (the nibbler) is fed loose in the house. I've also started making Snap effectively "wait" for his food, by making him work for it a few kibbles at a time. This way Capers finishes her food in peace, I get in a small workout with Snap, and he can't gobble it all up at once.

You could always follow the 10 minute rule --- if Bacca doesn't eat, take his food up and offer it to him later. If it's dry and you're feeding him in a crate and he refuses it, you could leave the food in the crate (with the door closed !) and see if he shows interest later.

Good luck. Hopefully its only an annoying quirk right now.
 
Well this morning, he basicly skipped two meals in a row and was moping around. Though he woke me up early two days in a row. I thought he had to go outside, but I started thinking this was more from hunger.

So I decided to buy a bag of his old food (I had transitioned the boys from Pro Plan to Orijen). It finally dawned on me that the day he went off his food, was the day we were 100% on Orijen. Well guess what! He ate it up the Pro Plan right away!

He hasn't eaten his dinner, but that doesn't surprise me because he only ate breakfast at 1 p.m.

Tomorrow morning will be the true test, I think. And then I have to figure out what to do next! I don't want to stay on Pro Plan, but it seems that Orijen just does not work for him.

Stay tuned! Crossing fingers and toes!
 
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