u/big-ol-kitties

So I’ve had my dog for almost a year, he’s about 1.5y old. Since I got him I’ve been giving him purina one plus puppy then adult small breed kibble on and off. I mixed in some purina wet food at first, he would sometimes turn his nose up at it and skip a meal or two.

Then I started mixing in Caesar wet food, same reaction. Then after a while just gave him the Caesar wet food alone and he ate most every meal. My dogs have always had just kibble and I would prefer him to eat that alone.

I started mixing it again with the Caesar and now we’ve transitioned out of all the wet food and he won’t eat any dry kibble. Its the same kibble, purina one plus adult small breed, but he won’t eat any of it alone..

Is it possible that he just won’t eat it? I know people say they won’t starve to death, but I don’t want him to be miserable either. Am I just torturing the little guy? He sees me cook our human food and it makes me feel guilty for giving him dry lame kibble.

I tried making some chicken broth to add to it and he ate that once and didn’t eat it again after.

We’ve been making good progress and he’s been able to go several days in a row without a diaper, has pretty good bladder control. But he is not willing to sit on the toilet to poop. And when he’s without a diaper he holds it.

So I try to tell him “if you have to poop let me know and I’ll give you a diaper” just so he can work on the timing and intent, but he doesn’t even hear me out just hears “poop” and says NO. I persist until he hears me out and he just says “okay” because he know I am asking something, but then doesn’t actually follow through.

He already tends to get constipated so him holding it just makes it worse. I think also his bad experience with constipation and big poops make him afraid to poop in general, adding in a toilet just doesn’t go over well.

We already told him if he can poop in the toilet we’ll get him a hamster which he wants, but it’s not really motivating him to actually do it.

Anyone work on this around this age with success? His language, is limited. He does very well with naming and labeling things.

I’ve tried to look online but see some older reviews and comments, looking for newer experiences.

My instinct says “scam” or placebo effect at best.

They’re marketed for weight loss, depression, and other mood disorders.

With how many weight loss pills and injections have come out lately, has there been any real results from these patches?

I listened to the audiobook so it’s very possible I missed something.

When Singer receives the coordinates of Trisolaris, he checks it out and sees that that star system has already been cleansed. I think he looks at the logs and sees that the coordinates were received before.

This time, he does some research and discovers the 3 communications between the Trisolarans and Ye Winje. And so discovers our solar system coordinates.

But why did he receive the signal again in the first place?

The deterrence signal only left the Gravity ship once, and no signal was sent from earth. Was it just some sort of echo? Or the previous cleanse wasn’t logged in or something? Or did someone else(trisolarans?) send it to ensure earth was also targeted and not missed?