Fussy eater

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A friend has a fussy eater-Tibetan Terrier. He eats any new food at first then refuses after a couple of days. She's done this to herself cos she has thoroughly spoilt him and he now even turns his nose up at my favourite Orijen!

Can anyone recommend a fussy eater dry food? He's currently on JWB-do they do a fussy eater version?
 
TBH the only solution is decide on a food and stick with it: put the food down at mealtimes and leave it there for 10 minutes ignoring him whether he eats it or not, then pick up the bowl. Repeat at every meal without variation and he will eventually get hungry enough to just eat what he is given and not try to go on hunger strike to get tasty morsels :rolleyes:
 
Brownmare said:
TBH the only solution is decide on a food and stick with it: put the food down at mealtimes and leave it there for 10 minutes ignoring him whether he eats it or not, then pick up the bowl. Repeat at every meal without variation and he will eventually get hungry enough to just eat what he is given and not try to go on hunger strike to get tasty morsels :rolleyes:
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Quite agree with that! Although, mine don't just get dried food on its own, they have raw tripe with their dried food, or sometimes tinned sardines or something else like that. They love their food, though I'm not sure they would be quite the same with just dried dog food.
 
Mine get what they're given or go without - I use that philosophy on the OHs kids as well lol!! Well I'm not going to stand and cook 3 different meals for kids so I'm not going to run round finding different dog foods because they wont eat. Although Millie is a walking dustbin so never had that problem. Jim can be picky but usually when he's had something he deems better - e.g at Christmas they stayed at mum's and had a proper Christmas dinner, when he got home he didn't want his dog food, so he went without lol.

My friend's dog is fussy when it comes to dog food, he'll eat his Royal Canin or Pedigree complete but is funny when it comes to tins or trays of anything so he gets chicken :rolleyes: spoiled little so n so :p
 
I agree with putting it down and taking away after 10 minutes.

She basically has to retrain him and not cater to him.

Having said that i do recommend she has maybe 3 foods on rotation. So once one bag is finished she starts another bag of different food.
 
She loves that dog more than her kids. She gave me a whole bag of Science Plan today (which I binned ) cos she can't find the orijen I gave her to try. I've told her the give him whatever, he'll eat when he's hungry trick but she won't do that. Remember Tricky-Woo in the James Herriot programmes? This is him reincarnated as a Tibetan terrier. :rolleyes:
 
cinammontoast said:
She loves that dog more than her kids. She gave me a whole bag of Science Plan today (which I binned ) cos she can't find the orijen I gave her to try. I've told her the give him whatever, he'll eat when he's hungry trick but she won't do that. Remember Tricky-Woo in the James Herriot programmes? This is him reincarnated as a Tibetan terrier. :rolleyes:
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In that case he clearly needs to be provided with a butler who can hand feed him bite size pieces of chicken breast / smoked salmon / caviar or whatever else he demands ;) :rolleyes:

For a food that tempts fussy eaters I have had success with CSJ herbie rings with my fussy lurcher (and yes I admit when he was a puppy I did on occasion grate cheese onto his dinner :o but i like to think I've learnt from my mistakes)
 
katielou said:
will she go raw or home cooked?
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Sadly, no. She would probably faint at the blood and the idea of Tricky-Woo crunching up actual bones!

Her idea of home cooked is mushroom risotto: she then wondered why the dog was sick. I referred her to the sticky on here for what foods are dangerous.
 
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