I have a pretty little two-year-old mostly long-haired chihuahua (with a touch of papillon) who has always loved her kibble. she eats it from some small, heavy bowls because when i gave her food in lightweight ones she would drag them all over the place. she loves to eat when people are watching; she'll eat on her own but she just loves an audience. or she has until now. recently i saw her eating her food and then suddenly yelp as if something had scared or bitten her. she ran off. then i noticed she hadn't been eating. a couple days have passed. she doesn't seem ill; she just doesn't go into the kitchen. i don't know why. today i carried her in. she eagerly sniffed her dishes, then yelped and ran away! i guess the dish attacked her again! NOW what?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.As they share some of the same ailments as humans, I think they can be schizophrenic and see things that we don't see, I swear my dog acted like she saw bugs crawling on her paws, and I had to distract her, It really bothered her and there was nothing there! Try another bowl? slightly change the food time
to make sure she's hungry, change the location. Do things to stimulate her out of that routine and back to a new better one. Remember, they also don't see as we see. Good luck!
CaroleKay
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Nov 1, 2018
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Our little terrier is doing the same thing around going to bed in her crate at night for like 3 months now. We think something fell from a high shelf during the night and ever since we've actually had to sedate her to get her to go to sleep. We tried everything else, including relocating her crate, letting her share our other dog's crate, etc. Some dogs, especially the nervous little breeds, easily acquire such idee' fixe.
Unfortunately Valium isn't going to work for eating. It barely works for sleeping. You have my total sympathy and sorry but I have no idea what to try other than relocating the dish, trying some new and particularly appealing food, hand feeding her, maybe a square bowl instead of a round one, stuff like that.
mordant
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Nov 1, 2018
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next time i get a ride anywhere i intend to see if i can find a different bowl. it IS weird. it is as if the bowl barked at her, both times. i don't think she was actually touching it when she yelped. funny babies!
i did have a cat once, now gone 18 years, who got so upset when she saw me packing a suitcase she would have seizures. she had to be put on kitty valium!
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Could she have been bitten by an insect close to the bowl at that particular time? And she might associate it with the bowl or the kitchen? It's a pretty puzzling case but with animals you just never know what they are thinking.
graceylou
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Nov 1, 2018
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it's not impossible. i have not seen any bites on her nor had her flinch at any touch, but she obviously has something against that bowl!
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@graceylou oh that is funny! i think it's a heavy plastic that looks like stone, or else it really is stonewear. it's nonreflective anyway. maybe she imagined something. funny, same bowl both times. last night she was barking in her sleep. she sounds like she's blowing bubbles or having little hiccups. then she growled. then she yelped and woke up. she is a funny girl.
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@genessa I've dealt with hundreds of dogs of all sizes and breeds, and I tell you, you just can't imagine everything that dogs can come up with. The only other thing I can think of if you might have changed a dishwashing liquid or detergent or even kitchen cleaner and she didn't like the scent. If you are worried enough you might call the vet just to see if this might be a sign of some illness they recognize or if you should even worry about it. They might have suggestions too, without having to take her to the vet.
@graceylou haha i am embarrassed to say i have not washed that dish in forever. she really licks it clean! not this week, obviously. so it's not that, unless my guy spilled something in it. but since she is eating okay in the bedroom, i won't worry unless she decides she's afraid of that dish too 
) oh and the two dishes are identical! how about that? )
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@genessa As long as she eats and isn't acting ill, I guess you can chalk it up as just a quirk. Sometimes a mystery would remain a mystery. Even if you go to the vet, sometimes you come home still having no idea what the issue it, after you've paid them a fortune on exams, x-rays, and tests.
Check for broken or sharp edges,something is scaring your Dog,tried a different bowl, or new location? Nothing in the food? Inspect her mouth, a broken tooth with an exposed nerve can do this.
Mike1947
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Nov 1, 2018
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i checked the food and there is nothing in it, and no scratch on the bowl. she is eating from the bowl i brought into the bedroom; it's not the bowl that scared her but she wouldn't eat from it in the kitchen. i will have to keep this bowl in the bedroom until i figure it out. at least she ate!
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i just brought one of the bowls (not the one that made her yelp) into the bedroom. she is eating. she is taking ONE kernel, running away from the bowl, eating it across the room, then going back for another kernel.
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genessa
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Nov 1, 2018
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I've read,Dogs and Cats can see things we cannot,Ghosts,Spirits,somethings on another plane of existence? I dunno.
@genessa But,something has "Spooked her" That's why I mentioned what I did, Just as in mt late wife's passing,the people renting my house,have said they've herd and seen her Ghost,I have not,but on three occasions,in two locations,I have awoken fro a deep sleep by my late wife's voice saying one word,my name "Mike",nothing else.
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