We have always fed Frosty Pedigree dog food. It is what his breeder fed him and I just kept him on it after we brought him home because it seemed to be working just fine. I have noticed over the last several months that Frosty has become less and less enthusiastic about eating his dog food at meal times. He gets one cup in the morning and one cup at night. At first I thought it was because my bag of dog food was getting stale and the stuff at the bottom of the bag tasted gross to him or something. However, we are on our third bag since I noticed his indifference, and it doesn't seem to matter if the bag is freshly opened or not.
My question for you is this: Should I switch Frosty to a new dog food that he might like better so he will be more excited to eat it or would it be better for him if I just left him on the old food and insisted he get over it and eat that? He will still eat his regular food, he just always gives me the "seriously, its this AGAIN?" look and we have to tell him 3-4 times to eat before he'll actually do it.
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"What's for dinner tonight?"
You could try what we did: develop a menu of 18 different entrees, perhaps a dozen different side dishes and a few dozen desserts (rotate servings, or we worked on a touch-screen menu allowing the dog to chose by licking the screen). Things like organic free-range pheasant pate with a side dish of organic free-range dead earthworm and a dessert of fresh organic free-range cat poop served on a lavender-scented linen napkin....
But when we realized it all disappeared within 50 seconds, no matter what it was, we went back to SOS -- Same Old Slop -- every night. :)
Really -- a corgi diffident about dinner? That would make me wonder about some health problem...
For treats/variety, maybe find a butcher where you can buy organ meats or something? Somebody's blog mentioned tripe -- inexpensive, cut it into pieces and freeze them.
if u dont want to change his food u can always add some veggies or boiled meat to it. i know i spoil the heck out of teddy but i have always put my self in his shoes and thought what he might thnk, ya know? but always add an egg (cooked) boiled chicken, veggies of all sorts and some fruits. just google what u can and cant give frosty.
i even add cheese wiz to his food and he LOVES it! the best part about adding all diffrent kinds of food is, u dont need to put so much kibble in it. even a table spoon of peanut butter will add some flavor :)
If he's normally a good eater and now he doesn't like it, I'd change. All I can ever remember when people say their dog or child or whatever doesn't like something is that when I was a kid I HATED milk. My mom let me skip it but my grandmother made me drink it. Anyway, I couldn't stand it and years later I finally discovered I'm lactose intolerant. Similarly, my husband never "liked" red fish and the last time he tried it he said it made his tongue immediately start to feel furry and he spit it out--- I think he's allergic. So when normally non-picky eaters don't like something, I often wonder if it's bothering their systems at some level and their "dislike" is their body's way of saying "This isn't the best thing for me."
If you switch him gradually over about 2 weeks or so he should be fine.
I agree that variety isn't a must for dogs. It might be for the humans that feed them! I dont' change the food but I will add something-- a spoonful or yougurt or some veggies at their breakfast. Dinner stays the same no matter what. they get 15 minutes to finish and then I take it away. Never EVER has any of the 3 been reluctant to eat. They get .5 cup a.m. and the same p.m. I feed a little less in kibble so that I can add something to the morning bowl. All 3 are at a very good weight.
Maybe some dogs get picky when they don't get enough exercise, I just don't know..
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