| water over food?
Hello all!
As some of you know, Lexx has never been a big food hog. Some days he'll dig right in, but others he's content to just completely ignore his dish all together ( being that he is fed raw, this means that he will completely ignore a bowl full of ground beef, chicken, whatever...)
since I don't like to stand for this behavior he loses the chance to eat after 15 minutes. He has actually gone for three days at a time without eating...
however, he is OBSESSED with water. To the point where it is actually irritating. Not only can i not fill his bowl to the top or he'll down the whole thing in one sitting, but he will try to drink standing water from anything and everything outside, rain off the ground etc...
I do not allow the water to be down during or immediately prior to meals
He is now 13 months and STILL only weighs around 70lbs on a good day, usually more around 67. I am concerned not because of his weight, but more that his weight hasn't CHANGED since he was 8 months old. It would seem that he probably should have grown in the last FIVE months no?
Is his obsession with water/non interest in food and lack of growth symptomatic of something? None of these are new symptoms, he's always hated food ( since birth..) and hasn't ever had a growth spurt...but I think I may take a stool sample to the vet just to be sure... any other thoughts?
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