Oh that’s gross. I’d forgotten they used to come in the box without the liner. I used to love Grapenuts. I can’t chew them now.
Only food I ever found a weevil in was a loaf of bread from the local monastery.
I threw it out. Yuck.
I looked up little beetles in Colorado and now I’m thoroughly creeped out. Lol. I’m not sure if it was a weevil or not but something small and brown that was crawling around.
Anyways princess pup is back to eating with no issues so hopefully it stays that way.
I’d bet money that this is the reason she is turning away the food. Small dogs in particular will pull these stunts and hold out for better food. My small dogs makes it a point to try and eat bugs. 
Most dogs will eat feces, bugs dead animals, and God knows what else - can’t quite say I’d eat what a dog eats anyways. Most animal food manufacturing plants have bugs to some degree due to restrictions on the chemicals they can use as pesticides. I’m certain your dogs have eaten food that has been touched by a bug more than once without you knowing.
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No, I would not eat it. But I would not eat most things my dog eats. It is not even close to a fair comparison to feeding a child.
But heck, people cut the mold off cheese and eat the rest of it, I can’t do that. My dog will gladly eat that moldy cheese.
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Animals can be sensitive to stale, off tastes. I took a barn cat home, a pretty clever and proactive kind of guy. The bag of cat food apparently got stale at the top, so he nibbled a corner from the bottom of the bag and ate from there. I was kind of proud of him. Later, when I decorated a small Christmas tree with mini candy canes, he would pull them off of the tree without disturbing anything else. Smart, careful, respectful cat. R.I.P., BG.
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Oddly enough, my first dog (a stray) was an even pickier eater than I am (and I’m picky). She was the kind of dog that you couldn’t buy too much of a certain food, because she’d decide she didn’t like it. When I was away at college, she “trained” my mother to make her homemade food every night. I wondered if she’d learned to be selective fending for herself!
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LOLing because once again I so feel this…
Here is a current list of reasons my dog cannot eat
a cat is within 10 feet of his food
one of his humans is not within 10 feet of his food
if the bowl he’s supposed to be eating out is plastic
it’s Tues or Thurs- IDK how he knows but he waits to eat his lunch until my office helper comes in around 1:00PM on those days and brings him a treat, then he eats his lunch, the rest of the days, he eats his lunch when I put it in his bowl at noon
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This girl is a miniature Schnauzer Jack Russell mix. I know my parents schnauzer thinks he’s king and a super picky about even treats. She’s not as picky but she definitely has that side to her. Lol
I do think she was training my husband too lol
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“This biscuit is nice, but cough not quite as nice as a piece of roast chicken.”
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Yep exactly lol. She used to eat a puzzle feeder in the morning because that’s supposed to be so great for their minds. But one day she decided that was too much work in the morning. She will eat out of it in the evening but never in the morning, it has to be her normal bowl.
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That’s exactly the thought ha ha.
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I would struggle to resist giving chicken to this face!
Is there a way to tell if a bag is stale? We only buy a small bags because she’s a small dog but is there a way for us to tell?
I’m not tasting it 
If you are that cute I guess you can be sensitive about the evilness of bad food.
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She’s the perfect mix of sensitive and totally feisty. She’s something else and I love her to death!! I think she knows how much we are all wrapped around her paw.
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Give her a new bowl? Add some cooked chicken to her food?
I have 2 dogs I cater to by adding a little cooked chicken to their meals so they reliably eat at mealtime. Makes my life easier.
My dogs carry around and eat ( if possible) the most vile things. I find it hard to believe 1 weevil would cause her to boycott her food?
But who knows.
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Yeah we did a new bowl. My husband was adding wet food on and she was eating happily with that. I was able to get her to eat again without the wet food. I think the real issue as if she refuses my husband instantly adds more yummy things to it. So it kind of thinks she just learned that if she refuses then she gets a lot of extra yummy things. Lol. Doesn’t work with Mom as well so she just eats right away.
All is well and she’s eating perfectly normal again. Maybe it was the old food got stale or something who knows.
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She has your husband well trained. 
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I don’t know how to tell if the food is stale, but am guessing that if it’s been exposed to air for a while and the animal doesn’t like it as well, those are pretty good clues. A friend keeps her cat food in one of those decorative metal popcorn canisters that stores sell at Christmas time. It’s a very good size and keeps the food sealed. Plus you get some popcorn…
