Dog in heat refusing treats?
We just got a new dog, a 3 year old Old Time Scotch Collie, and unfortunately she arrived to us while in heat. We are absolutely planning on spaying her, but obviously that's not an option right now, so we're just riding out this heat cycle.
We had planned on starting training her after she had recovered from arriving, but this has been postponed due to the fact that she has very limited interest in treats. She wouldn't eat her regular dog food (that she was on before coming to us) until I started adding some canned dog food, which made sense because dogs in heat often lose their appetite. But refusing treats?
She hates zuke's, despises dog cookies, and doesn't care for most other store bought dog treats. So I started offering people food - bananas, toast, cereal, pancakes with and without syrup, apples, carrots, sweet potato, bits of hot dog, etc. Nothing. She even refuses peanut butter.
The only things she has shown even a mild interest in are cheese, freeze dried liver, and greenies. This is a problem not only because it makes training (particularly clicker training) more difficult, but also because I'm running out of things to stuff her kongs with, and she absolutely needs to have awesome and safe things to chew to keep her happy and stimulated (I don't feel comfortable giving her things like bones or rawhide for this reason https://www.preventivevet.com/dogs/popular-dog-chews-that-are-actually-dangerous-to-dogs).
So my question is, is my dog being super picky because she's in heat? Because she's been in a new home less than a week? Because she's a herding breed? Because she's just finicky? All of the above? Our last dog was essentially a vacuum who ate anything and everything offered to him from day one, so this is new territory for me.
Submitted November 19, 2019 at 10:10AM by Bemiho
via reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/DOG/comments/dynazf/dog_in_heat_refusing_treats/?utm_source=ifttt
No comments:
Post a Comment