Poor appetite

[Nudibranch]

My dachshund is 14 months. He's never been a good eater but would normally finish his dinner eventually. I've never fussed over him - dinner goes down and he gets nothing else. I even cut him down to one meal a day as he wouldn't eat in the mornings. He has a complete dried with a little tinned to make it more attractive.

Over the last month or so he has become a bit of a brat with his eating. Dinner goes down and he won't touch it. He can go three days without eating, then has no energy for walks. It got to the point where I started buying the little foil trays to mix in; he liked them for one day and then went back off his food. In other ways he seems healthy - when he has eaten he is energetic and loves his walks. His coat is soft and shiny and his eyes bright. But he is quite thin now - he was always slim but if he were a horse he'd have quite a poor condition score - ribby, backdone prominent, etc.

He's wormed regularly, and can't be eating elsewhere as there's only me at home, but I'm at a loss as to how to get him to eat. I don't want to start spoiling and pandering but he can't keep losing weight like this. His booster is due on Saturday so I'll ask the vet what he thinks then. Until then, anyone have any good ideas?

 

[maisie]

I have a couple of fussy whippets - to tempt them I mix in some sardines - usually the ones in tomato sauce - I split a tin between the 2 whippets, my lurcher and my lab - and they all wolf it down - if they are going through a really fussy patch I give a little every day for a few days just to get them back into the swing of eating again - they love it!

 

[Cop-Pop]

My lab is like this. Has he had the snip?

With ours it was because he was missing something in his stomach that meant digesting some foods was painful for him

For two weeks we fed him a vegetarian dog food (dry mix) mixed with plain yoghurt. We them moved him on to Nature's Choice trays (half a day) and mixed it with Burns. He's still a fussy bugger but he's now only 2kgs underweight

He used to be 8 kgs underweight

and people thought he was crossed with a wippet