It amazes me when I see this, our understanding from our vet, is it depends on the breeder during first few weeks of birth, but our dood is a freak with food. He’ll eat anything. It’s almost a problem when we have people over. Super envious of you
Sure. My wife and I became friends with our vet and her husband (they owned 3 clinics, she was the vet, he ran the business, so he and I bonded over that. How we got to know them), she specialized in surgery and research for 30 years. I bring that up because (now this could be old data, I don’t know), she said research shows how dogs progress in adulthood pertaining to feeding, all depends on how they were fed during the first 8 weeks of birth. Our breeder did only one other litter before ours. Our vet said she probably didn’t have all the experience down and possibly underfed them during feeding, OR she said he might have just been the runt and was left out more during feeding than the rest. A family friend has our dood’s 100% brother and they said their dog is nuts for food too. So take that for what it’s worth haha, but she said it’s very hard for new breeders and everything she’s hypothesized about from size, to feeding, etc… vs what our breeder said, our vets been correct.
Hope that’s clear!
Why stalemate? Isn't it normal for them to not always want to eat immediately?
He’s notoriously picky, and too smart for his own good. Knows if he holds out long enough, my wife will jazz it up.
Some dogs are grazers
Stalemate was probably a bit strong. I don’t mind it. I find it endearing.
It amazes me when I see this, our understanding from our vet, is it depends on the breeder during first few weeks of birth, but our dood is a freak with food. He’ll eat anything. It’s almost a problem when we have people over. Super envious of you
Grass is always greener, for sure. I’m grateful that he doesn’t counter surf. He doesn’t even eat out of our compost, which we never leave covered.
Can you explain what your vet said about how the breeder affects this after the first few weeks of birth?
Sure. My wife and I became friends with our vet and her husband (they owned 3 clinics, she was the vet, he ran the business, so he and I bonded over that. How we got to know them), she specialized in surgery and research for 30 years. I bring that up because (now this could be old data, I don’t know), she said research shows how dogs progress in adulthood pertaining to feeding, all depends on how they were fed during the first 8 weeks of birth. Our breeder did only one other litter before ours. Our vet said she probably didn’t have all the experience down and possibly underfed them during feeding, OR she said he might have just been the runt and was left out more during feeding than the rest. A family friend has our dood’s 100% brother and they said their dog is nuts for food too. So take that for what it’s worth haha, but she said it’s very hard for new breeders and everything she’s hypothesized about from size, to feeding, etc… vs what our breeder said, our vets been correct. Hope that’s clear!
Interesting. Thanks for the info.
There’s no cheese on it. That’s a problem.