Food

It's been a long hard slog but Yu You seems to be eating (almost) sensibly at last. It was all my own fault as although I have read the book and ALL the websites say do not give in to your dog when it is begging for food off your plate, I was too weak!! She was ok at first and still ate most of her own food but last month she turned down almost everything except human food. In fact on several occassions she turned down scrambled eggs and smoked sausage! I'm not sure what tje final straw was but something had to change - she was moving down a notch on her collar as a result of being ill at new year so it was time to be her pack leader and do what was best for her.

Initially she was very stubborn and would rather starve herself than eat dog food. It was very stressful as I felt that I'd ruined her! We tried a lot of different brands of dog food, dry and wet. Eventually we bought Morrison's own brand "My Dog' tinned food and she seemed to eat that - albeit after I put it on a plate and made a small game out of it by "dropping" some on the floor... But at least she was eating almost a whole plate of it! Beef and Rice is strangely her least favourite food but apparently a lot of dogs develop allergies to beef so perhaps that's why.

I have moved her onto Pedigree chum now though as I was a bit worried at the thought of what "animal derivatives" might be! I've noticved that she is now back at the second hole of her collar rather than the third and it looks like she soon will be on the first if she keeps eating as well as this :D My big baby!

Here are some new pictures but also one of her eating as proof!





Note her nice hair - obviously the "pet cosmetics" are working!

This last photo is of Yu You's brother Toddy and her mum Kitty. She looks a bit like her mum I think but Toddy is massive next to Kitty! Toddy is destined for the show ring so he is not allowed to get his hair cut unlike Yu You. I still think Yu You is cuter though. I am not sure I can cope with all that hair!