[Dailydrool] Treats and meals

[Pam McQuade]

<<Does anyone else have a hound that refuses to eat a meal until a treat is 
given first? The treat is not always consumed prior to the meal but he has 
got to have it in his dish before he will eat.>>

Our Jane doesn't exactly demand a treat, but she does demand something 
special with her meal. She began refusing to eat plain kibble a couple of 
years ago. Now we have to give her a toppping of a mixture of boiled, then 
ground up chicken and veggies and broth (don't tell her, but I sometimes use 
plain water instead). If we just try to put broth on her food, she won't eat 
much. She still does this, despite the fact that we changed to a new food 
that she absolutely adored for the first five-pound bag. Once that was 
finished, she began demanding her treat again.

Bel eats the food with relish, no problem, but Drew usually feeds him 
whatever Jane is getting. Abner eats anything, including his kibble with a 
bit of yogurt on top, without a bit of complaint--his hypothyroid makes him 
always hungry..

Bassets know what they want in the way of food, and you can't stop them. 
Fighting is useless.
Pam, food slave, quite literally, to the Dashing Bassets