Puppy refuses to eat from her bowl, wants to eat from big dog's bowl

[catbyte]

She's gonna be a handful.

[blm]

1. Heheheh

[question everything]

2. Of course. Grass is always greener, etc.

And big dog must know things...

[Karadeniz]

3. Shut the door!

[MissB]

4. I bought an elevated food/watering station not long after our pup came home.

He’s 4 months now. He loves to paddle in the water bowl. It makes a hella mess in the kitchen. So I found a two-bowl raised platform that contains the water perfectly.

Since my 18-mo dog is huge, I figured the raised feeding option is better for him. So when we fed the two together, we’d put pup’s bowl on the floor and older pup got the bowl in the raised feeding station.

Got really tired of him running over to get the big dogs bowl and vice versa, so last week I fed them both in the raised feeding station. And what do you know? They eat out of their own bowls perfectly fine without getting into the other’s.

[Ilsa]

5. I'm having to retrain my older female lab to eat

from a new place. I call her over, then stroke her repeatedly to show approval. The food bowl and water bowl are positioned the same way on the same mat.

We have to feed her separately from our other dog because he probably feels food insecure because he was a rescue. We could not trust him not to attack her with their food so close together.