My little girl has lost her mind.

She is 3 years old now. I had her seen she was 3 months old. She used to be so sweet, so nice, so not into biting. & yaaa.. she isn't fixed. My bad.

This started after my grandma without asking took her to my aunts house. So my dog started getting fiesty if anyone got near her food because of this dog. My aunt has no common sense that two dogs need two bowls.

So on with the food, she refuses to eat any dog food, dry food. I TRIED EVERY SINGLE BRAND. Literally EVERY brand, every flavor etc. Even wet food, canned food, specialty wet food, etc. She won't eat it! So my dad started cooking her food. Chicken or liver. If it isn't what she wants she ATTACKS her food. Literally barks, growls and hits her food with her paw. Drama queen.

At night she attacks or growls or bites if you get near her. I'm scared to touch her sometimes, this came out of nowhere. Randomly she will just bite or get upset, I don't know what is wrong with her. I'm afraid of my own dog now and she is 10 pounds.

The only thing she seems to eat are pupperonis (treats) if I take those away all she does is get upset and won't eat at all. She will just end up being fiesty and trying to bite.

She seems angry and upset, is it her food? I feel its so impossible to feed her! She is weighing at normal weight, she does eat the chicken or liver, but if its chicken from yesterday she won't. It has to be fresh. This is the most pickiest dog in the world!

Oh ya my vet said nothing is wrong with her. So did another vet. & she attacks her butt sometimes or licks it, whats up with that?

I'll keep trying to find new vets, but just going to so many I'll go broke.

First off what training have you done with her? Group classes, private sessions? You should talk with a dog trainer about her aggression and behavioral issues. This needs to be addressed right away before she bites you or worse, somebody else! As far as the food goes... when you feed her, how do you do it? Does she eat in a crate or loose in a room? How long do you leave the food down for her? How is her weight? I will check back and once I see your reply I can try to give you some ideas on how to deal with the eating issues depending on how things are being done now. Also, I would strongly recommend having her spayed right away. That can help with her dominance issues (she sounds like an extremely dominant dog from what you are describing) it can also help to calm her down as well eliminating the possibility of many serious health problems!!

Thanks for responding!

I trained her myself. She was perfectly trained before she went to my aunts house. Yes I should probably go to someone professional to train her on the biting.

My dad feeds her, same plate, around the same time. He gets home at different times. She eats loose in her room. I won't put her in a cage, no way. I tried once she freaked out and screamed, that was to take her to the vet, big one too. Yes she screams.

My dad just leaves the food there until she eats it. We usually leave dry food out all day in hopes that she may eat it.

I haven't weighed her, but she is heavy, you can't see her bones, she isn't malnourished.

I'm afraid to spay her, she is 3 years old and I don't want her in pain.

I was thinking of just making her food, like actual dog recipes that I found on some sites such as:

* 1 1/2 cups converted long-grain white rice
* 2 teaspoons safflower oil
* 2 cups water
* 1/4 teaspoon ground thyme
* 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
* 1 cup grated Monterrey Jack cheese
* 2 cubes beef bouillon
* 1 pound lean ground lamb

Then I hear that garlic is bad for dogs? I just though mushrooms and chocolate were bad.

She loves cheese, hates beef, easily gets upset stomachs though. She is also allergic to shots, she is real difficult.

Ok, glad to hear she is not skinny This has worked 100% of the time with every client I have ever told to try this, I hope it works for you. Pick a high quality food that you want to feed her (Blue Buffalo, Nature's Variety, Wellness, Innova, Merrick, etc.) Put the food in her bowl, get her attention, ask her to sit, put down the food. When you put the food down look at the clock... in 15 minutes pick it up again. Offer her 2 meals per day and only leave the food out for 15 minutes. This way she will learn the eat it when you put it down. I have yet to meet a dog this did not work for. I have found they EVERY free-fed dog (leaving the food out all day) developes a problem with being a picky and/or slow eater. Why eat if there is walsy food around? Hope this helps and feel free to ask any other questions.

On the spaying front... it is a VERY safe procedure and hundreds are done every day. She will be in much more pain and probably die if she is not spayed and developed a pyometra or cancer!!! (Sorry to be so blunt, but it is true) I have NEVER had a problem having a dog spayed... the one girl I did not have spayed almost died from a VERY COMMON uterine infection, she was in agony for days, in the hospital intensive care unit, required major sergury and it cost me $2500 instead of a $400 spay! Plus I almost lost her!!!!!!!!!!!

$400 to spay? Oh goshers, I'll be saving up for a while. I'll try that and see if it works, I never heard of those brands actually. I just tried everything they had at petco/petsmart never seen those before. Hmm. I want to feed her homemade food though.

Thank you.

You can also contact your local MSPCA, many times they have low-cost spay service. Try the food idea as well as working with a professional trainer. You can look at the Association of Pet Dog Trainers - Dog Training Resources website to help find quality trainers in your area. Good Luck!

I agree with Orange. Picky eaters are only picky because they are allowed to be. Once they know its eat it or lose it, you'd be suprised just how quickly they start eating what is given to them. You might also try taking away her treats for a couple days and then making her earn them when she does get them. Make her work for her food as well. When you feed her, have her sit and stay untill shes told its ok to eat. That should help you start taking control again.

It should not cost $400 to spay-- I'm sure that was a typo. I only paid $40 (that's forty) to have my dog spayed. I don't know where you are, but in the U.S. we also have something called "The Big Fix," a mobile surgical clinic that tours around from city to city, doing spays, neuters, shots, and microchipping for a discounted cost. Also, they offer pain pills to give your pet after the surgery to reduce pain. I have to tell you, we had my dog spayed at just 4 months of age. I went ahead and got the pain pills for her, considering a spay is the same thing as a complete hysterectomy, no small thing for humans-- but she ended up not really needing them-- we only gave her two. The day after her surgery, my husband left for two hours to go run some errands. He had chosen not to crate her, thinking she would either just sleep from the pain pill, or she wouldn't feel very mobile (she was having a hard time getting outside to potty). Well, he was wrong. He came home to discover her just as frisky and happy as if she had never had the surgery, and there was trash strewn all over the house! Just a week after the spay, I took her camping with my Cub Scouts. She was zipping all over the trail on our hike, and went swimming in the river with the boys, having a ball. Get your girl spayed-- for some reason it is not near the ordeal with dogs as it is with humans. If it was as easy for humans as it is for dogs, I'd get myself spayed!

Orangedog offers very good advice.
The bottom line with a picky eater is that however choosy they are a dog will not voluntarily starve itself to death. Harsh but true.
Pick a dog food and follow orangedogs advice. We had a similar thing with our girl Daisy. She got skinny for about a week as she was being so picky. We put her food down for 10 mins twice a day. She would only take little bits of it for ages. She got over it though once she realised that what we put in front of her was it. It wasn't great to see her lose a bit of weight but she put it back on almost immediately. A few days of good eating and if anything she looked better than before.
As I said. Your Dog while not starve itself to death. It seems a tough line but you can't let your Dog dictate to you what it will be fed.

As for spaying. Get it done asap. Trust someone who has been there. With the best intentions in the world if you don't spay your dog at some point you will end up with puppies. If you think the spaying is expensive how much do you think it would cost if your dog has 12 pups!

Yes, the vet care for your dog if (and WHEN she has puppies) is expensive, food, x-rays, ultrasounds, c-section (many need them), supplements, vet exams for all the puppies worming for mom and all the pups, food for all the pups, vaccinations for all the pups. Where I live the average check-up and vaccination for one dog is about $175... now times that by 6, 8 10 or more puppies and WOW now THAT is a big vet bill!!

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I'm surprised no one has suggested that you should have your dog's thyroid checked. Sudden changes of behavior can be less about single incidences and more medically driven. So I would rule out any medical issues before labeling the dog in some unnecessary way.

well you need to train your dog how you train him at first