Can my dog really want different food everyday

[Anonymous]

My puppy is not a great eater. But if I out out a new flavor of food, she eats. It’s like I need to put the flavors in rotation. Is this normal for dogs? I thought dogs generally ate the same type of food for each meal?

[Anonymous]

I rotate proteins but certainly not every day. What are you feeding? What type of puppy?

[Anonymous]

My dog wasn't either. We tried a bunch of different foods, toppers all to no avail.

I started cooking chicken (crockpot) and putting about a nuggets worth on top of her kibble. Also added warm water to the kibble. Now she eats like a champ.

[Anonymous]

Yes, my dog hates the same food every meal. I use different flavors of wet dog food as a topper, have three choices I switch every couple of days so she doesn't complain.

[Anonymous]

I have a dog like this. It’s a PITA.

FWIW, we use bits of cheese or cold cuts that we already have in the house. Cheaper than those toppers, which he’d lose interest in anyway.

[Anonymous]

Op here. Going through all the purine pro, frommers gold, and one science hill

So far the salmon seems to her favorite but then she barely eats if it’s like the second or third day, but if I put firm another flavor she devours it

[Anonymous]

*down

[Anonymous]

My dog was like this. We started making plain chicken broth (no onions, no garlic, just chicken) and freezing it into cubes and putting 2 cubes on her dry food. Helped a lot

[Anonymous]

My dogs will begrudgingly eat their fish variety dog food if they don’t get what we have which is usually some rotation of chicken, salmon, tuna and shrimp with steamed vegetables. Their favorite is shrimp (plain boiled) and they eat the whole thing including the tails. They’re in their mid teens now so it’s seems it’s been working for them.

[Anonymous]

Tell your dog about all the starving dogs in (pick a place) that would be grateful for that (whatever you are serving)!

[Anonymous]

My dog wants custom meals. Rarely will she eat kibble but lately we've been hiding it in stuff but I make big batches of food, freeze it. Cheese is great melted on top of things.

[Anonymous]

Dachshunds, yes. We had to rotate 3 types to keep it interesting for a few years

[Anonymous]

If you want the trainer take on this (not all, but many) you put the food down for 10 minutes. Doesn't eat it? Take it away. Other opportunities for food are training on walks as a reward. Then you put the food down in the evening. They'll eat when hungry.

No, I haven't done this but I have a starver who will not consider anything without a human food topper so I can see the point 18 mos in.