Mark and Mindy
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Before I ask the question, I have 2 dogs - a border terrier (Poppy) (spayed female) and a schnoodle (Harry) - Harry is a schnauzer/poodle cross, F1 - poodle shaped body with long legs but deeper chest and heavier schnauzer bones - mum was a poodle and dad was a standard schnauzer.
I'm having feeding issues with Harry, mostly, he is generally disinterested in food and has to be persuaded to eat, is easily distracted and quite prone to wandering off before a meal is finished. I've noticed that he's losing weight and his coat has lost its glossy shine. He's active, Mark walks them for just over an hour every morning, decent paced walk, he also has some full on playing sessions with Poppy in the daytime.
I would prefer to feed them on a wet/dry combination, and we've finally got the dry part sorted as Lily's chicken (neither of them like any other flavour dry). The wet is proving to be a major headache as although he's more than happy to tuck into our food - chicken, beef, lamb, tinned tuna or salmon, smoked salmon, cheese etc he's not interested in any kind of wet dog food and we've pretty much tried them all!
Poppy isn't so keen on the dried food and usually eats the wet, mixing the two together doesn't help as she's more than capable of removing all the wet from the dried and spitting the dried out.
So the question is what should I be doing, or even what am I doing wrong?
These aren't our first dogs, first was a Schnauzer (like a vacuum cleaner when eating), second was a Welsh Terrier (a bit picky but he liked Bakers so that's what he had, lived to 15.5).
I'm having feeding issues with Harry, mostly, he is generally disinterested in food and has to be persuaded to eat, is easily distracted and quite prone to wandering off before a meal is finished. I've noticed that he's losing weight and his coat has lost its glossy shine. He's active, Mark walks them for just over an hour every morning, decent paced walk, he also has some full on playing sessions with Poppy in the daytime.
I would prefer to feed them on a wet/dry combination, and we've finally got the dry part sorted as Lily's chicken (neither of them like any other flavour dry). The wet is proving to be a major headache as although he's more than happy to tuck into our food - chicken, beef, lamb, tinned tuna or salmon, smoked salmon, cheese etc he's not interested in any kind of wet dog food and we've pretty much tried them all!
Poppy isn't so keen on the dried food and usually eats the wet, mixing the two together doesn't help as she's more than capable of removing all the wet from the dried and spitting the dried out.
So the question is what should I be doing, or even what am I doing wrong?
These aren't our first dogs, first was a Schnauzer (like a vacuum cleaner when eating), second was a Welsh Terrier (a bit picky but he liked Bakers so that's what he had, lived to 15.5).