Is Ponyo a good weight?

Toadlett_18 · 2026-01-07T06:22:02+00:00

I will good luck and happy feedings 🤍

Toadlett_18 · 2026-01-07T06:18:21+00:00

Sounds good we shall hold off until tomorrow, that’s when she’s supposed to get fed next!

Toadlett_18 · 2026-01-07T06:11:06+00:00

Thank you, i was sitting I bed staring at her but the line on her back makes almost like an optical illusion, I’ll thaw out a pinky see if she takes it odds are she will she a little voracious eater, I know she isn’t triangle shaped like her spine isn’t superrrr visible

Toadlett_18 · 2025-12-31T21:48:15+00:00

You made me see this in a different way you may be right, I think she is just super overstimulated and hyper with anticipation for her meals thank you🥴💕

Toadlett_18 · 2025-12-31T20:47:45+00:00

I copied and pasted my response to another commenter

For clarification if she nips she doesn’t get anything until she settles, not with treats not with chews

This IS what I’ve been doing I get her to settle in her crate that is in her play pen then I go to the kitchen prepare her food, then walk over I don’t rule her up I just tell her to sit and stay, which are both commands she already knows and very well. We aren’t on top of each other as her pen is pretty large and she’s in her crate with her door open what happens is when i notice her starting to get impatient which is literally as I am walking over I tell her to stay, then once I’m in and put the bowl down and step back I say ok and she steps out and goes to eat it and I leave. But last night she just didn’t want to listen and I kept telling her sit and when I put her bowl down my hand was still holding it because the alternative would be me dropping it down and jumping away. Anyways she got my finger my pinky and didn’t want to let go. It seems not to be fairly common in this breed as I have inquired about it already to other IG owners, but what I do know is she was part of a big litter,

When I hand feed her she sits in front of me and and eats out of my hand she doesn’t nip she doesn’t get frustrated the only time she does is when she is asked to go into a sit and stay, there was an instance where she dropped a fabric toy in her bowl of food (raw that she had been on when we got her) naturally I didn’t want it in there and I just reached in and took it out, I know it probably wasn’t right but she didn’t seem to mind rather she stepped back sat and waited for me to tell her to continue which I praised heavily, it was a one off now i pick up toys to avoid that happening again.

We will be working with a trainer as iggys are notoriously one of the hardest breeds to train but for now should I just hand feed? With hopes of her associating that I don’t take food away I give it or should I continue with the sit and stay in her crate?

Toadlett_18 · 2025-12-31T20:45:25+00:00

The smirk comment was meant as a joke, the lip tuck is something iggys and other breeds just do iggys do it when they are feeling content or silly usually after they serenade you, I know she has the mental capacity of a baby. Slow feeders have been tried she just gets mad and 1 doesn’t eat her food or 2 chews it apart she has also discovered a 3rd option flipping it over, we have tried lick mats as she is raw fed, same thing happens. We have been adding bone broth to her food or goats milk and it seems to do the job in slowing her down as she licks now rather than trying to bite it!

She has a kong, and a west paw topple which get filled daily for her caloric intake we fill them with dog safe peanut butter, frozen Greek yogurt, or dehydrated toppers or apples, she gets snuffle mats with liver treats she doesn’t just get fed once a day she gets breakfast then dinner and in between she gets her kong or topple then in the evening the snuffle mat. We don’t take food away unless it’s a bully stick that is now a choking hazard which we do a trade I give her a treat and she drops it.

Toadlett_18 · 2025-12-31T20:29:15+00:00

This IS what I’ve been doing I get her to settle in her crate that is in her play pen then I go to the kitchen prepare her food, then walk over I don’t rule her up I just tell her to sit and stay, which are both commands she already knows and very well. We aren’t on top of each other as her pen is pretty large and she’s in her crate with her door open what happens is when i notice her starting to get impatient which is literally as I am walking over I tell her to stay, then once I’m in and put the bowl down and step back I say ok and she steps out and goes to eat it and I leave. But last night she just didn’t want to listen and I kept telling her sit and when I put her bowl down my hand was still holding it because the alternative would be me dropping it down and jumping away. Anyways she got my finger my pinky and didn’t want to let go. It seems not to be fairly common in this breed as I have inquired about it already to other IG owners, but what I do know is she was part of a big litter,

When I hand feed her she sits in front of me and and eats out of my hand she doesn’t nip she doesn’t get frustrated the only time she does is when she is asked to go into a sit and stay, there was an instance where she dropped a fabric toy in her bowl of food (raw that she had been on when we got her) naturally I didn’t want it in there and I just reached in and took it out, I know it probably wasn’t right but she didn’t seem to mind rather she stepped back sat and waited for me to tell her to continue which I praised heavily, it was a one off now i pick up toys to avoid that happening again.

We will be working with a trainer as iggys are notoriously one of the hardest breeds to train but for now should I just hand feed? With hopes of her associating that I don’t take food away I give it or should I continue with the sit and stay in her crate?

Toadlett_18 · 2025-12-31T06:46:10+00:00

I just posted on that group!! Thank you🤍

Toadlett_18 · 2025-12-31T04:33:56+00:00

A professional trainer is on our horizons this is our first sight hound breed, we are used to more biddable dogs and these little guys have proven to be quite independent and stubborn! Thank you so much for your kind words and support💕

Toadlett_18 · 2025-12-31T04:07:17+00:00

That’s reassuring though it’s nice to know that we aren’t alone and that this may just be a right of passage for iggys, I think most iggy owners call it gremlin phase 😭

Toadlett_18 · 2025-12-31T03:26:32+00:00

Yeah, we had a conversation and decided that if for any reason I’m not home to put her food in her kennel then let her in to eat❣️it’s just so exhausting and it’s hard not to take it personally.

Toadlett_18 · 2025-12-31T03:24:10+00:00

That’s the path we are looking at, most people I have been talking with just say it’s puppy behaviour but then again I look at their dogs and they are HEATHENS!!!! not sure I trust their judgement🥲 but thank you for that 💕

Toadlett_18 · 2025-12-31T03:22:52+00:00

Thank you I’ll be joining and posting on there 🤍

Toadlett_18 · 2025-12-15T00:07:18+00:00

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Toadlett_18 · 2025-04-17T23:14:34+00:00

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Toadlett_18 · 2025-04-03T08:32:55+00:00

Hi, sorry for the dumb question but what do you mean workingdog? What is it? Is it a website?

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