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Ralphie, to encourage her to eat, play with her a little - fetching a toy, charging after it, hunting it down, bringing back the 'kill' - that encourages appetite in a dog. Last weekend mine got lambs kidneys as a treat (reduced), and they like a little raw, and some cooked off added to their dinner.
Do you have canine friends, perhaps people and dogs that you would walk with? It would probably benefit you all to go out for a sociable play - other dog owners, as you have seen here, they are generaly a decent lot, and I am sure they would be happy to help pick up your girls spirits if you mention she is grieving. We tend to attract some of the dog scared dogs - my pack is solid, used to fosters - helps shy dogs come out of themselves and be dogs, gives them a bit of confidence. We always look out for the newly adopted - you know how it is, if the rest of th pack come running, the new friend will do so too. When I have fallen over, my boy has come to offer me his shoulder to help me up - bless him, he is so small and so gallant, he offers me all that he is, and I take a very little help, for if I took none, it would hurt him. The girls will go back to back on the path and watch out for all comers. Funny little lot, my canine family. Taught themselves that.
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