Dog does not enjoy all types of dog food, expensive or not.....?

Question

i have a dog (unsure of the breed...bit of collie n sheppard) he is 6 months now and i have had him for 4months now. The first time I took him home he ate some cat food and now does not want to touch his food. I know certain foods are bad for dogs but he enjoys everything from chicken to cherries to yogurt. I have tried everything even making homemade ground turkey and brown rice (which he enjoys sometimes). Is there anything that i should try? He is very active running atleast 2 hours a day and is very obedient and trully is a good boy. He dosent seem to be starving or hungry and he is growing ok.
please help -a concerned mom

Answer 1

Well, I know dogs should not have grapes. They can't process them.

Answer 2

i know exactly what your going through. my dog did the same thing. well my advice to you would be stop feeding him table scraps like the yogurt and all that stuff. not good. now this doesn't mean you have to go buy high end dog food. just get him normal food. with my dog she was more picky and i would just buy like those very small packages of dog food just enough that it didn't waste a lot. and if you start going through a lot of types of food and still not eating finally make the decision for him and now im not saying starve him. im not saying that at all. but just put a big bowl of that food for him and don't feed him anything else. cause right now hes thinking why eat dog food if i can eat my owners food every time i beg for it. and probably after a one day of this he should eat. again if he doesn't go and buy the canned wet food. i have found my dogs like not the blocky stuff but the real gravy and meat. mine is pedigree and its not exremely expensive. i hope this works!!! GoOd LuCk

Answer 3

Dogs have been domesticated for 1000s of years - dog food has been around for about 100.

Many people have healthy active dogs that have never eaten dog food. My dog eats RMBs, offal and some table scraps. This prey model diet is being recommended by an increasing number of vets as more research is being done into the nutritional needs of our pet carnivores!

**The people that choose to feed their dogs a diet based on Raw Meaty Bones are not new age fanatics or blindly following a fad. They are responsible people who have researched the needs of their pets and want to provide them with the best possible care.

Answer 4

My dog was finicky at that age too! She still is, somewhat, but it got easier after the "teenage years."

Try mixing some of the brown rice with a high quality kibble. My dogs love garlic, meat or chicken broth (unsalted kind,) raw egg, any kind of rice. When he does turn down meals, pick up the bowl calmly and offer it again at his next mealtime. He will eat if and when he's hungry. Don't break down and give him people food because you feel sorry for him UNLESS you're willing to do some research and prepare him meals that are balanced for HIS needs, not a person's. He's a growing pup and really needs the proper nutrition.

Some people foods to steer clear of for your dog's sake --> chocolate, onions, raisins, cooked bones, and anything with salt or caffeine. Some that aren't necessarily unhealthy but good to avoid for YOUR sake: broccoli or cauliflower, too much dairy, any kind of beans or sausage.

Answer 5

There is nothing wrong with a home cooked diet for a dog that is BALANCED for the needs of a canine. At that, for a canine that is a large breed puppy.
You might want to consider a raw diet:
http://www.rawdogranch.com
OR a home cooked diet with suitable supplements. Research that one for balance for your pup. Good supplements for skin and coat are Brewer's Yeast with Garlic (formulated for dogs), Norwegian Cod Liver Oil.
Your dog need meats that it can tolerate and a diet with at least 2 percent linoleic acid.
So do the research and feed right for the breed. I fed the raw diet to my dogs for some mos. and they did great, but because I have three and their needs vary some, and I now live in a place with little freezer space, I went back to a healthy kibble all three can tolerate and occasionally I give them raw meaty bones (chicken back- raw only)
and supplements for skin and coat.

Answer 6

find some wet food he likes and mix a little with some dry dog food to make it more appetizing. You can also keep feeding the turkey and rice, thats perfectly find and better than dry food, you can even mix the rice and stuff with some dry dog food.

Answer 7

of course he doesn't want to eat dog food, that's because you give him everything from chicken to cherries. if you offered me cheesecake or broccoli i'm thinking i'd go for cheesecake and if i knew if i refused the better for me food i would get more cheesecake, lol well i would move in with you! pick one high quality brand. stick with it. get a large breed puppy formula of this food. put it down for 20 mins 3 times a day. offer nothing else. your dog won't starve himself. if you want to intice him into the food mix in green beans or carrots with it at first. then slowly remove them until he's eating the food. he's healthy now. but a human toddler can live for a year or better off of chips and fries and be just fine. but how will they be at 12 years old? same with your dog. he's a pup and will seem fine on just about anything right now honestly. but it's not what's good for him and in the long run you are harming him. high quality puppy foods are balanced to meet the growing needs of a puppy. you don't want to discover down the road that he might not have had hip or other gastrointestinal issues if you'd forced the dog food issue better. keep the cat food out of his reach. get the puppy food and feed it to him. nothing else, not even a dog treat for a few weeks until he's eating dog food well. i'm glad you're concerned and looking for help and i hope you take the advice to heart. my best.


while raw diets seem to be the fad, many of them espeicially when giving you other supplement to add seem to forget the calcium. and that is one of the most important ingrediants for a growing pup. if you must then check the diet over with your vet and make sure there is the proper nutritional mixture suitable for your dog. but i would just go for the dog food.

Answer 8

well dogs to have taste some like any kind of food while other turn up thier noses... but any food he will eat would be good i always had a reguar brand and then a treat brand sometimes it take a few bags to find the one... a dry brand small bags til you find the one would be wiser

Answer 9

My dog is exactly like that she won't eat her food without something on it. I give her either low sodium (important) tomato juice (you can buy it in big cans) or spaghetti sauce. She loves it and it is good for your yard. Apparently it is supposed to help neutralise dogs' urine so it doesn't kill the grass.

Answer 10

Breene, grapes are toxic to dogs that why they shouldn't have them.

I would research a raw diet. These are very healthy, very digestable, and your dog will enjoy his meals.

Answer 11

No people food, no cat food just feed him good quality dog food. Put some in his bowl and leave it out he will not starve himself he will eat it.
People food is very bad for dogs!!!some are toxic ...