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Originally Posted by Rocky-Baby  Star is uber picky with food. We've tried everything on the market from dry kibble to wet food to the 'raw diet' to actual food-food - but he hardly eats! I know these dogs are prone to hypoglycemia so I add natural 100% honey to whatever he eats but he's the most mellow, lap-dog-type PUPPY I've ever seen...so I figured he needed more food (we leave a bowl of eukaneuba kibble out at all times for him to snack on and we feed him 1/2 can of wet caesar puppy mashed and mixed with the honey 3x daily but he never eats his whole meal - some days he barely eats breakfast and the dry food bowl is emptied once a week (he eats it one kibble at a time - so if we were to count I'd say he MAYBE eats a total of 10 kibble total on a 'good' day?) - so we got nutrical - which other dogs i've owned lapped up like candy but Star HATES it!!! We put it on his nose like it says afer first placing it on my finger, thinking he'd lap it up like every other dog in the world does (lol) but one lick and he shook his head like I'd just fed him a 3 year old GYM SOCK and then BOLTED into my room and under my bed he went.  What the hell?
What gives???  |
The kibble in the bowl will spoil and not taste good before the end of one day. Premium kibble will spoil even faster because it doesn't have as many preservatives. If Star doesn't eat the kibble by dinner, throw it out and give him fresh.
I would recommend getting samples of other foods.
Also, giving honey and nutrical consistently may do more harm than good. They are not intended as preventatives, rather they should be used when the pup is actually hypoglycemic.
Try obedience and trick training and use kibble as reward. This may entice him to eat more if you make the kibble look highly desirable.