ok maybe that’s dramatic but that’s genuinely how it’s been feeling lately. so, for the last month or so my 5yo plott mix has been showing signs of joint stiffness/soreness. I took her to the vet after the new year and had some sort of pictures taken of her hips and joints and sent to a radiologist for examination, but everything came back fine. My vet suggested putting her on a bit of a diet to lose around 10lb (she was 85lb) and see if that helps as well as giving me some other medications to ease the joint pain. This sounds like an easy task, only thing is that I’ve been making my dogs food for the last year and a half (since i got her) by following one of the Just Food For Dogs diy recipes. My vet recommended Purina Pro Plan Weight Management, so we took about a week and a half of mixing the foods and slowly incorporating it and now she’s been eating solely kibble for about a week and a half.
Now on to the problem… my dog was never a beggar, would be on top of her meal times to the minute, and would finish every meal without any problems. Since switching foods it takes a good deal of convincing to get her to start eating her food and finish it and any time we have food out she stared at us and looks so sad and deprived when before she would just ignore it completely. When we first got her we gave her a treat whenever she asked to go outside to potty but that stopped after a few weeks and since switching food she’s constantly asking to go outside just to turn around and come back in to ask for a treat. I feel so cruel and I wish I could explain to her what’s happening and why but I just don’t know what to do![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
We have a follow up with her vet next week where i’ll bring up some of these issues but i’m just not sure what I can do about many of them. Will she get used to it eventually? Do you think she feels like she’s being punished?
TLDR: had to switch my dog from human food diet to kibble and now she acts like hates her life.
Now on to the problem… my dog was never a beggar, would be on top of her meal times to the minute, and would finish every meal without any problems. Since switching foods it takes a good deal of convincing to get her to start eating her food and finish it and any time we have food out she stared at us and looks so sad and deprived when before she would just ignore it completely. When we first got her we gave her a treat whenever she asked to go outside to potty but that stopped after a few weeks and since switching food she’s constantly asking to go outside just to turn around and come back in to ask for a treat. I feel so cruel and I wish I could explain to her what’s happening and why but I just don’t know what to do
We have a follow up with her vet next week where i’ll bring up some of these issues but i’m just not sure what I can do about many of them. Will she get used to it eventually? Do you think she feels like she’s being punished?
TLDR: had to switch my dog from human food diet to kibble and now she acts like hates her life.