She's still a bag of bones - but the problem is she will not eat the amount I was told to feed her by the rescue - she just naturally seems to stop before then, you can make her eat a little bit more by giving her 5 minutes and walking her back to the foodbowl but she seems to be a naturally small eater tbh (I give it as long as I can before having to lift the foodbowl as scavengers-r-us would happily do a drive by).
Her coat's improved (she's starting to be all shiny, with a bald arse) and she's a lot happier in herself - but I'm struggling to get her to fill out a little bit - all her ribs are still very visible, her hip bones jut out more than the average supermodel - so she IS still underweight (don't worry - I'm not going to have fat dogs)!
I don't know if it's just that she doesn't like the food she came with from the rescue, I know she finds eating that little bit harder with missing most of her front teeth as food keeps falling back out, she's a food scavenging machine most of the time so the appetite seems to be there - just not sure what to do and how much to worry about it really.
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emptyshell · 01/08/2011 07:00
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