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How do you know when your Chi is getting enough food?
Up until recently I would give Jaxx 1/2 cup of food a day. I tried giving it to him twice a day 1/4 cup but no matter what I did he would only eat a few bites of food and if I did it twice a day most of the time he would just leave the food alone totally after doing this for a couple days I was afraid of him getting sick from not eating so I just put out the 1/2 cup in the morning and by evening it used to be all but a little bit of it was gone.
In the past week he has been eating all of his food by 3 or 4 pm but he keeps going back to the bowl like he is looking for more. I have been giving him a little more but I do not want to give him so much that he gains weight and gets overweight for health reasons. Right now his weight the vet says is good but I do not want him to go hungry.
Since his eating habits have changed recently I am just not sure if he is actually hungry or is he just trying to pick and get more food.
Jaxx never eats fast like he is starving but he never has done that. He has the habit that he gets a piece of food and brings it from his bowl and eats it beside me (like he is saying look I am eating.) When we first got him he would take his food to his bed like he was afraid someone would take it from him, I figured that was from having so many puppies in one home he probably had to fight for his food. It used to be that he would only bring one piece at a time to eat in front of me but I have also noticed in the last week he has started bringing 3 or 4 pieces and dropping them in front of me to eat then going back for more after those were finished.
Are there any signs to know to feed a dog more than the amount that they were getting?
Up until recently I would give Jaxx 1/2 cup of food a day. I tried giving it to him twice a day 1/4 cup but no matter what I did he would only eat a few bites of food and if I did it twice a day most of the time he would just leave the food alone totally after doing this for a couple days I was afraid of him getting sick from not eating so I just put out the 1/2 cup in the morning and by evening it used to be all but a little bit of it was gone.
In the past week he has been eating all of his food by 3 or 4 pm but he keeps going back to the bowl like he is looking for more. I have been giving him a little more but I do not want to give him so much that he gains weight and gets overweight for health reasons. Right now his weight the vet says is good but I do not want him to go hungry.
Since his eating habits have changed recently I am just not sure if he is actually hungry or is he just trying to pick and get more food.
Jaxx never eats fast like he is starving but he never has done that. He has the habit that he gets a piece of food and brings it from his bowl and eats it beside me (like he is saying look I am eating.) When we first got him he would take his food to his bed like he was afraid someone would take it from him, I figured that was from having so many puppies in one home he probably had to fight for his food. It used to be that he would only bring one piece at a time to eat in front of me but I have also noticed in the last week he has started bringing 3 or 4 pieces and dropping them in front of me to eat then going back for more after those were finished.
Are there any signs to know to feed a dog more than the amount that they were getting?