My Dog Is A Picky Eater, Could you Help Me?

Make her hungry. Never let the food be on the ground. Establish some rules, schedules. My puppy vet said: "twice per day, put the food tray on the ground, beware that water should be always there" Never give your food to her, or she will kinda jump to your table to get some. Try to give her food after you ate, in this case it means your the boss, you eat first, then her. For example: All day should be always clean water. After you eat your lunch, give her the bowl of her food (dog food). After 1 hour take it back, only leave the water bowl on the ground. After you dinner, do the same thing. Give her the bowl of food, wait 1 hour and then take it back. Do this for several days, and you will see that she will eat. Don't be the weak one, dogs must know we are their "parents", so we make the rules. She can be depressive in the begging but she will eat. You say you tried not to feeding her for 1 day, and you gave up? Try the way I'm telling you, but never, never, give her some food of your own. After she eat her food from the bowl, give her some cookie and cuddling, she will see that her action made you happy and she gets a reward. Your not her first owner, so you need to be really patient and be kinda harsh with her. I'm not saying to beat her (I would never do that with my puppy or any other). Just show her whose the boss. If you continue surrending she will do whatever she wants with you... like you said, she was spoiled. Give her time, make schedules for the feeding, make plans, give cookies. They will learn with that. Good luck :) By the way, don't be scared if she doesn't eat too much for days. My puppy is the same, but when she is hungry she eat almost 2 bowls, and she is from tiny races lol ;)

Hi my cats too are picky eaters; when my daughter bought Friscas they didn't eat it. They are used to my cooking. You know I cook them a meal with fish, a bit veggies and some rice. They like it very much; so what I always do, I add a little bit of Friscas everyday and they began to like their meals. You just have to do it bit by bit. Oh please don't add salt. If they're not eating sometimes they have to take laxative. I let them take laxative every month. Ask your vet first before letting him take any medicine for assurance of his health.

Have you tried mixing dog food with the regular food you feed her. Maybe mixing it a little bit would help her get used to the taste of dog food. If this doesn't work maybe looking online for cheaper alternatives such as recipes you can cook that won't burn a hole in your wallet.

She knows she has u beat. Buy a good dog food, u said u bought the best. Take some of the food that she qas eating before, mix with good dog food. Place on the floor, if she doesn't eat pick it up off the floor, after a few hours place it on the floor again. Keep doing that until she eats.Whe nshe sees that all she is going to get is what u give her, she will give in. When she stars eating regularly and she will, slowly cut back on adding to the dog food... I add cooked chicken legs to my dogs food, they need alot of protein... REMEMBER ALWAYS LUV/ CARE, TRAIN FOR YOUR DOG/ PET, THEY WILL ALWAYS LUV U... EVEN WHEN U TRY HARD SELL

I think that the only thing that you can really do is continue to offer dog food to her. She will eventually get hungry and she will have to eat what is offered to her. If you are afraid of her starving because of this, then I would start cutting her table food with dog food adding a little bit more dog food to her bowl every day until eventually everything that is in her bowl is dog food without being cut with any of the table food. I hope that this might work for you.

Try to give the puppy back to the real owner or just leave the dog a dog food. If the dog gets hungry, he/she will eat it. Just a little bit of patience.

Give the dog longer than a day with out home cooked food. Set the dog food out and leave it. When the dog gets hungry enough, she will eat. Make sure there is plenty of water, may take 2-3 days. The dog will be fine.

Lately I have encountered the same problems with my 4 dogs. I have been feeding them minced beef cooked with ground corn and sometimes rice. They suddenly refuse to eat and I changed it canned dog food which I mixed with rice and that too being ignored. Now I ordered chicken neck and boiled them without adding any rice. This they wallop up in no time but I fear they will soon get fed up of it.

STOP KILLING YOUR DOG! That is what you are doing by always feeding her table food. The nutrients are not right for a dog or cat. A little treat now and then, like a fried egg or bit of bacon will be ok but make her eat dog food that is designed for her age. I keep dog food out all the time in a self feeder and Chewy, my dog, eats when he is hungry. His food of choice is Kibbles and Bits but he will also eat Beneful if I get it for him and I do every other bag. Don't worry about your dog starving she will eat when she gets hungry so put her some dry dog food out and when she starts to eat it give her a little wet/canned dog food as a treat. When we have bacon for breakfast I will pour a little of the grease over Chewy's food and he loves it.

To change her food you need to slowly add the needed food to the one she is already eating. Slowly is the key word. You might also try feeding her a dry food as a treat. Make a reward of it and make it a really big deal. Do not worry yourself about her nutritional needs at this time, dogs are scavenagers and a great many of them live on garbage throughout the world. You can also give her a vitamin as a treat, most dogs love these. Mainly stop stressing about this, your dog reads humans very well and know you are upset which in turn makes her upset. So just relax, breath deeply and give her a little reasuring love.

Like the other suggestions, make your dog choose to eat the other food ie don't give it what it usually has, and when it's hungry, it will eat. That's the most obvious way to train them in this aspect.