A few more weens added to my painting. By popular request I'll be added a long hair shaded red (show coat) and a silver dapple!

Trying to represent as many weens of different coats, colors, patterns, ages and quirks in this painting as an homage to this wonderful breed.

Slowly but surely, I'm working through it!

My two, Salami and Kielbasa, were the sharks. It was a very fun day. 🐶🦈🦈🐶

I’m new to the dachshund community (long time coming) and I have finally gotten my dream boy, Mr. Winston (Winnie for short). He’s been such a little bundle of joy and has such a personality on him. He already loves his big sis Sunny, our 11-month-old Pom rescue, and our family is complete (for now). So excited to be a part of this community and looking forward to our adventures with Winnie the Weiner🦴

Roar!!

Got him a dog safe cake and some birthday gifts (wubbas are his favorites) Wanted to say thank you to everyone who gave him birthday wishes! ❤️ (Yes I let my boy on the table. And he's learning to look at the camera to get pictures over with)

The caterpillar is my baby so she gets to go first 🐛

He’s a very spoiled little boy!

My local grooming shop and a local photographer got together for some fun photos with some of the proceeds being donated to a dachshund rescue and i just wanted to share these two pictures of Beau! 🥹 so curious and straight up “just throw the damn treat already”

I never thought I’d cherish professional photos of my pups but i definitely recommend every animal owner to do it! Photos/memories will be all that we have one day 🫶🏼🫶🏼

We had a great turnout for a perfect day 🌞

Good boy Dougal ♥️

Salami and Kielbasa chilling.

Thank you for being my best buddy! Turning 2 years old today. Going on vacation to Florida, cheering on the warriors with your grandma, and being the most spoil sweetest boy. I love you Oscar cant wait for more adventures! Give me boy some boops!!!

Perfect! What do you think ?

It’s so hard trying to find local pet shops that do long enough jumpers but I hit the jackpot today, little wins 🥳😆

ORIGINAL POST:

My 5 month old puppy used to be super food motivated and love his kibble. We feed him Purina Pro Plan (puppy food). There were plenty of times where he would be shaking with anticipation right before I put his bowl down. I even had to get a slow feeder because he inhaled his kibble too fast.

But recently he is less excited before meal times. There are even times where he doesn't even come to me when I am holding his bowl. He would take a sniff and just sit and stare at me or go run away to his toys. I've added toppers and that helps sometimes, but other times he still doesn't eat or only eats a partial amount.

I think this may have started when I gave him a lot of freeze dried chicken treats while trying to potty train him. He is also teething right now and his baby teeth are falling out so that could be a reason too. We do soak his food in water every time.

I'm not sure what to do. I've seen advice about just taking the bowl away after 15 minutes, but he's just a puppy and I want him to get his full nutrients. Any one else experience this?

UPDATE: First of all thank you guys for all of the advice! So I tried just taking his food away if he doesn't finish it. But that led to him throwing up yellow bile in the mornings due to him being so hungry on an empty stomach. So we stopped doing that. We took him to the vet just in case there are any underlying illness, but they said he is very healthy. They gave us a different kibble brand to try but he isn't interested in that as well. I am kinda stuck here. Even when I do add toppers, he just finishes the toppers and leaves a bunch of kibble left over in his bowl. I might have to just switch to giving him real foods. I'm not sure what to do.