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RE: [pyrnet] old pyr health question



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Hi everyone;
 
Interesting topic.  My Pyr, Czar, will stop short of eating out of his stainless steel bowl right before he gets to the bottom.  He will then stop, stare at the bowl, and talk to it.  I then have to walk over to the bowl, shake up the food, bend over and tilt and hold the bowl for him to finish.  Czar is almost 7, and I had to start doing this about 2 years ago.  I have assumed he doesn't like the feel of the stainless steel on his tongue.  But, I have tried different bowls, plastic, ceramic, etc, and he still does the same thing.
 
Is this a Pyr thing?  None of my other working dogs have ever acted in this fashion before.  I just tell him he is being silly....:-)
 
Beth, Czar (Pyr), Osa (Newf) and Tundra (Pyr) in Rural Wisconsin
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From: owner-pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org [mailto:owner-pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org] On Behalf Of Debra Slocum
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 11:34 AM
To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
Subject: Re: [pyrnet] old pyr health question

Hello

Your observation is very interesting as we do use a stainless steel bowl.  She prefers to eat from the cocker's smaller bowl, which we always assumed  was because it always tastes better in the other dog's bowl.  I will try another bowl and see if it makes a difference.

thanks

deb

Oliverslb@aol.com wrote:
Hi, Deb.
Sounds like you are doing a great job for your girl and yes, weight loss is a part of aging.
 
My only suggestion in her eating would be to possibly change bowls.
I rescued an ancient Pyr, Baloo, about 4 years ago and it took me 6 mos. to figure out that he was sensitive to the stainless steel bowls that I feed out of and that was why he would never eat anything but the top surface of the food offered. 
 
One day, by accident, I gave him a porcelain bowl and he finished his entire meal for the first time since he had arrived.
I think his teeth (which looked good for his age and God Bless him, he did his best on raw bones) were sensitive to the metal bowls.
 
Just a suggestion, from what I learned from my experience (boy, did I feel like a dum-dum :)
You may also want to consider changing the temperature of the food to make it more enticing.  Some like things frozen, some like things warmed up...
 
Good luck with your girl  - Every day is a gift!
Regards,
Lisa and the beasts in south Florida
 
 
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