The one thing I thought I knew about Bassets was their love of food.
So I am not convinced these pair are actually bassets but maybe aliens!
The male is not really even bothered about most treats and there are only a few that he likes being pork strips, dentastix and frolic treats.
Now, they have been on a diet because they were on bakers before and the female was really fat.
So got them onto skinners and they were still having winalot mixed in but they have started picking the bits with meat and leaving food behind!
So the plan was to get them onto just dry. Ive done it plenty times before and thought I would have no problem.
Anticipating their refusal to eat it I let them have a day of just tinned food for dinner so that they would eat it all up.
First dry meal they actually ate it. I made them sit and wait while my other two dogs started eating and then gave them their food and they ate it. So I gave them a treat. Probably a daft thing because the next time they weren't really fussed with the food and tonight the male hardly ate any.
They are 23.85(F) and 27.95 kgs the male is bigger he might be a beagle cross
So we don't really want the female to lose any more but getting her to eat properly to maintain a weight is just not easy!
They are quite happy to counter surf and steal things they shouldnt, like my eggs! grrr and would probably eat as much table scraps as you gave them (but there not getting any) so do I just hold out and not feed them anything else? how long should I leave it? I mean I don't want her losing much more cause then she will never put it back on! lol
So I am not convinced these pair are actually bassets but maybe aliens!
The male is not really even bothered about most treats and there are only a few that he likes being pork strips, dentastix and frolic treats.
Now, they have been on a diet because they were on bakers before and the female was really fat.
So got them onto skinners and they were still having winalot mixed in but they have started picking the bits with meat and leaving food behind!
So the plan was to get them onto just dry. Ive done it plenty times before and thought I would have no problem.
Anticipating their refusal to eat it I let them have a day of just tinned food for dinner so that they would eat it all up.
First dry meal they actually ate it. I made them sit and wait while my other two dogs started eating and then gave them their food and they ate it. So I gave them a treat. Probably a daft thing because the next time they weren't really fussed with the food and tonight the male hardly ate any.
They are 23.85(F) and 27.95 kgs the male is bigger he might be a beagle cross
So we don't really want the female to lose any more but getting her to eat properly to maintain a weight is just not easy!
They are quite happy to counter surf and steal things they shouldnt, like my eggs! grrr and would probably eat as much table scraps as you gave them (but there not getting any) so do I just hold out and not feed them anything else? how long should I leave it? I mean I don't want her losing much more cause then she will never put it back on! lol