Puppy fussy with food

[Twizzel]

Rosie is 18 weeks old, fed Burns mini bites... sometimes she eats them, sometimes she picks until they are gone but takes ages. I think she gets bored of having them 3 x a day, so have added a bit of natural yoghurt, hot water sometimes a bit of pasta or mash if we've had it for tea.

I've noticed Burns do a wet dog food that seems to have pretty good ingredients rather than other wet foods (ingredients for chicken rice and veg is Organic Chicken (min 20%), Organic Brown Rice (min 20%), Seasonal Vegetables (min 20%), Vitamins and Minerals), could we feed a bit of that each meal mixed with the dry food and see if that works too?

 

[NeverSayNever]

nooooo dont add anything, youl just create a fussy eater if she picks at it, take it away after 10 mins and if she goes hungry, so be it, she wont starve Dog's digestive systems cope happily with a day or 2 of starvation. Dont pander to her, honestly you'l be creating a rod for your own back.

 

[CorvusCorax]

What she said

 

[SusieT]

Put food down for ten mins. take it up. Next meal time same thing. She'll soon learn to eat properly! Don't add food to it. Don't use wet food!

 

[SpottyTB]

Haha welcome to my world, we've been struggling for 7 months with Oak (must be in the blood, seeing as these two are related.)

We tried the whole taking it away.. he went 3 days.. not even kidding, he went all skinny and he still wouldn't eat. In the end we bought a 45p tin of dog meat - cheap stuff from aldi, 1 spoonful in (or half a tin if a bigger meal) mixed it right in really well and left it in his cage.. it soon went - he had it in a confined space so he was concentrating on it (because we found that he'd lose concentration about eating and go and play...).

Now he eats two good meals (because he's 9 months), if he doesn't eat it straight away, we don't tend to care.. we just leave it in his cage over night (if its a pm feed).. however if he's being a fussy sod and not even touching it, we tend to walk him/play with him A LOT and feed him just once (at the end of the day) with a slightly bigger meal and he wolfs it down! - we made sure he didn't get any biscuits/treats through the day so he was literally on a complete empty stomach!

Whatever you do, do not go to tesco's and pick up bakers or anything like that, we did that and or though he ate a fair bit.. he was a horror (set the kitchen on fire) he was full of beans and constantly in trouble! Much better on the burns