I'm just not at all sure what to change though. Our biggest issues with emergencies that might strand us somewhere when RVing:
1. Barkly doesn't like canned--it will sit there and ruin before he eats it--and a lot of time Danny scarfed it up the second I turned my back while I'm trying to catch Barkly to make him go back to his bowl.
Mushy, freeze-dried/dehydrated foods fall into this category of wet too. Barkly seems to have some kind of texture-issues or something like that the way I've seen little kids have.
2. Barkly likes only 2 kinds of grain-free kibble--Halo Spots Stew or Nature's Variety Instinct--and NOT the salmon formulas of those either. I don't like either of those, but it seems to not matter what I like at all.
I've been giving their kibble each day midday/afternoon with their snack which is always fruit of some sort--this keeps them willing to eat kibble. They both REALLY love fruit, so I don't want to make them give up THAT! But now I'm worried about feeding it with any amount of kibble at all.
I was reading an article on preventing bloat naturally
http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/prevent-bloat-in-dogs-naturally/ though, and it says never give fruit with protein meals. Well Kibble has protein.
That disturbs me even though Vlad gets only a little under 1/2 cup kibble & Barkly gets
about 3/16s of a cup--
I've got weird measuring scoops for them that have a ridge in it about 1/4 inch below the top of each--and I always give them the "drink" command after they eat. (
Yes it helps to teach "drink" when RVing since you can't drive all day and have a water-bowl loose. They have to learn to drink when you're stopped for breaks whether they want it right then or not.)
I'm not sure at all what to do about keeping them eating kibble. Seems I can't feed ANYTHING else with it. Maybe I should just start giving it at 10 p.m., 5 hours after their dinner, after they've had their last walk
w/nothing else. I'm not sure Barkly will eat it then though, or even eat it without fruit.
I just know if I ever quit feeding Barkly any kibble at all, he'll never eat it again--and Vlad's liable to do that too. People that I know that went raw have dogs that have done that, and then they've had problems going to weekend-long shows that are very far away. We're gone for over a week sometimes.
*sigh*