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Lovetodream88 · 04-13-2011, 02:56 PM

I have decided to switch Callie'ss dog food so I email wellness and they sent me three samples of the foods I was looking at and I wasn't sure how to go about seeing which one she liked so I took three small paper plates and wrote the name of the food I was putting on the plate and then I put 10 pieces of each sample on each plate and set them over by her dish. Well Callie is normally a picker so she is free feed and I expected her to take a few bites of each and that at the end of the day I would count how many out a the 10 she ate of each, well that didnt happen. She ate all of the wellness core as soon as she tried one piece! So I tried it again the next day and again she loved the wellness core and eventually ate it all. I am very excited because it is getting her on a higher star food much higher then what she was on and I wasn't sure she was going to like another food. I was just kind of wondering how yall pick and try a new food when you want to switch foods?

ArmaniMan · 04-13-2011, 02:58 PM

I usually do the same thing you did and then the one they ate the most of, I buy a small bag and try it out for a week or so to make sure they really do like it and it agrees with them. If so, then I can buy a bigger bag.

Ellie May · 04-13-2011, 04:41 PM

I've done something similar with toys.

For food I pick what I want to feed her, put it in a dish, put it on the floor, and tel her to eat. lol. She loves food though. But even if she didn't, that's what I would do.

yorkietalkjilly · 04-14-2011, 06:54 AM

I am pretty sure Tibbe would eat the one that smelled best to him first. I don't think he cares as much about actual flavor in his dog food as he does the smell. When I have given him a taste test, he goes for liver over beef or chicken, things like that. He has no food palate whatsoever and will eat any food offered him except some citrus.

Presto · 04-14-2011, 10:44 AM

Presto will eat anything

but i have to watch out for his allergies!

04-13-2011, 02:56 PM	#1
Lovetodream88 Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md Posts: 23,249	switching food I have decided to switch Callie'ss dog food so I email wellness and they sent me three samples of the foods I was looking at and I wasn't sure how to go about seeing which one she liked so I took three small paper plates and wrote the name of the food I was putting on the plate and then I put 10 pieces of each sample on each plate and set them over by her dish. Well Callie is normally a picker so she is free feed and I expected her to take a few bites of each and that at the end of the day I would count how many out a the 10 she ate of each, well that didnt happen. She ate all of the wellness core as soon as she tried one piece! So I tried it again the next day and again she loved the wellness core and eventually ate it all. I am very excited because it is getting her on a higher star food much higher then what she was on and I wasn't sure she was going to like another food. I was just kind of wondering how yall pick and try a new food when you want to switch foods? __________________ Taylor My babies Joey, Penny ,Ollie & Dixie Callie Mae, you will forever be in my heart!

04-13-2011, 02:58 PM	#2
ArmaniMan I ♥ Armani & Chloe Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 3,895	I usually do the same thing you did and then the one they ate the most of, I buy a small bag and try it out for a week or so to make sure they really do like it and it agrees with them. If so, then I can buy a bigger bag. __________________ Armani & Chloe

04-13-2011, 04:41 PM	#3
Ellie May And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI Posts: 17,928	I've done something similar with toys. For food I pick what I want to feed her, put it in a dish, put it on the floor, and tel her to eat. lol. She loves food though. But even if she didn't, that's what I would do. __________________ Crystal, Ellie May (RIP), Rylee Finnegan, and Gracie Boo🐶

04-14-2011, 06:54 AM	#4
yorkietalkjilly ♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas Posts: 22,140	I am pretty sure Tibbe would eat the one that smelled best to him first. I don't think he cares as much about actual flavor in his dog food as he does the smell. When I have given him a taste test, he goes for liver over beef or chicken, things like that. He has no food palate whatsoever and will eat any food offered him except some citrus. __________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis

04-14-2011, 10:44 AM	#5
Presto Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Wilmington, MA Posts: 370	Presto will eat anything but i have to watch out for his allergies!