Looool that’s funny.
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We just steam carrots for our dog. She seems to like them.
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Ghost’s Cytopoint injection makes him lose his appetite. We started mixing a portion of a can of wet food with each meal, and it usually works. He doesn’t eat that much for a dog over 100 lbs. Maybe 3 cups a day, and he maintains his weight. But we had to deal with that lack of eating.
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I wish adding canned food worked, but my dog is refusing that too. It’s so weird. He doesn’t even want treats. Just home cooked food.
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That’s ok @LilyoftheValley
It’s normal for older dogs to start losing their appetite as they age.
Did you talk to the Vet about it?
What did they say?
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@Wave The vet wanted $800 to start testing and said it might more if more tests were needed. So unfortunately he had no tests done. But he is willing to eat people food so for now that’ll have to do
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As long as he’s eating, that’s a good thing
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$800 for testing? Dear Lord! @LilyoftheValley I’m so glad you can get him to eat something, you know? My sister would do the same for her senior cat. Heck, she hand fed her (I don’t know how old) beardie for about a month, and it was baby food.
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Yeah @Happy_H . Vets are crazy expensive. It’s totally out of control. I have some things I have coming up to pay for first, but when I’m done I’m going to do a plan with a different vet where you make monthly payments so he can eventually be seen.
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Honestly we spayed and neutered in the city, and it ran 180-220 per dog. At our vet, we were quoted over $600. They are normally reasonable, but that was insane to me. Ghost now gets allergy injections every 8 weeks, and they cost $200-ish no matter where you go. Our pet insurance denied his allergy claims and his upset tummy stuff. We dropped them and are just using the extra money for a sensitive skin and stomach food plus his injections. 
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I make a special sauce for my dogs and War will dance for it. Is hilarious.
1 egg
1/4 cup oil, preferably sunflower or regular vegetable oil
1 tablespoon honey
Whisk it really well until it is pale yellow. Pour over dry food and mix well OR pour on homemade food.
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@Happy_H i find insurance to be totally not worth the money.
@anon4362788 , thanks for the tip! I’ll give it a try tomorrow
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Hope it works! I call it War Doggy’s Special Sauce.
I have a video on fb of me making it
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I couldn’t agree more after our experience. We’d never gotten it before, but Ghost chomped on so many things when he was little that we were worried about foreign body removal. Then we got Smooch, and we worried about bloat. Right before I cancelled it, I learned they didn’t cover things like hip dysplasia either. Useless. 
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@Happy_H Yeah, pet insurance is a scam as far as I’m concerned. Care Credit is helpful in that when something bad happens, you can make payments over time. But the vet prices still need to come down.
For instance , years back the groomer accidentally sliced my dog all the way down his leg to the bone. We never figured out how.
Anyway, they quoted us around $1000 to clean it and suture it. We said no way! You need to bring the price down! They managed to do it for $500! So why not do it for $500 to start with?!?!
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That is terrifying.
We have Care Credit, too. We got it for Ghost. I think he likes the vet, so he just keeps coming up with reasons to go back to see her.
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Lol! Hilarious!
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