My dog peg has recently been refusing her food.very worrying as peg has been on steroids for rheumatoid arthritis and would eat me out of house and home on a normal day.Turns out she not ill ,just gone off her food unless it has something else in it.Not an unreasonable request after all this time,but im worried about what to give her and need to have variety aswell.
She is a stubborn saluki,who having been ill usually gets her own way,I feed her pedigree chum mixed with iams,and so far have added pastsa,ham,mash potatoe or some cheese.
Any ideas?
Too much protien and we end up with upset belly.
Thanks Ash

I'd be tempted to avoid pedigree chum tbh because alot of their foods contain high protein levels, and cheese may well upset her tummy too.  Iams is a complete food too so you don't need to feed that with the mixer. 

Have a look under the thread titled 'wet food' that Fallenangel did yesterday and that might give you some more healthier ideas.  :)  Maybe variety might just be the key to keep her eating.

How about this http://www.dogtraininginfo.co.uk/tasty_topper.html
I keep a tub and use about 1/2 an egg-spoon if boy is a bit picky and there is nothing else in fridge (usually Thursday t time :-D ), they also do some other liver and garlic powder I have used before.
Chris

Raw egg (shell included) goes down well here, as does sardines in sunflower oil :-)

i have a friend on here who has a breed prone to canine anorexia. the way she gets hers to eat is a tablespoon or marmite in half a pint of boiling water poured over the dinner and allowed to cool. dont know if it will work with yours but does with hers

I would ditch the pedigree chum and maybe add some raw tripe to his biscuits - it stinks but dogs love it. :-)

I agree with Barkingmad keep away from pedigree chum, I mentioned on another post I wouldnt touch anything made by pedigree, Iams or Eukenuba their ingredients cant be trusted to be safe and are full of hidden additives that can cause cancer and god knows what else?? The Burns moist food is excellent. I give ours tripe from www.naturesmenu.co.uk they do a whole range of good quality food which I am sure will tempt your Saluki. I havent known a dog to turn its nose up at tripe, they also do frozen nuggets mixed with tripe, liver, a mixture of fruit and veg. It isnt as strong smelling as the plain green tripe if your a bit squemish about it . They also do a range of tinned as well which looks quite good. Also as a treat I give ours Tinned Pilchards in tomato sauce, although I drain a fair bit of the sauce away before giving it to them.  

Personally, I will not add anything to entice a fussy dog to eat (ill yes, fussy no), but mine gets raw tripe anyway so he finds his meals irresistable :)

Another thing that tends to make a dog less fussy is to stop feeding table scraps/treats, just feed them thier 'proper' meals. My sister was forced to do this when putting her fussy dog on an exclusion diet, when the dog realised the only thing on offer was her bowl of food, she suddenly enjoyed eating it ;)

Mastifflover has made a good point, if you are feeding treats etc during day, your dog may be getting full up! Then by time dinner is ready, they already have a full tum.

Tuna seems to go down well or maybe a bit of tripe, you will be able to get this from PAH / Wilsons, i used to feed mine the wilson one its about 45p a block, i dont use it anymore, am using royal canin complete, they get two meals a day, if they don't eat it i take it up and put it back down next meal time and so on, they will soon learn that they will go without. Very harsh i know :-D

Lois

Yep.....TASTY TOPPER from BARKER AND BARKER works really well if any of mine get fussy.....would agree that keep changing the diet isn't a good idea...their liver treats are good too....don't fill them up...and no after effects!! :)

Personally, I will not add anything to entice a fussy dog to eat (ill yes, fussy no),  but mine gets raw tripe anyway so he finds his meals irresistable

Would normally agree but after owning 2 GSD's that used to be fed a premium complete - tried a few - who flatly refused food for upto 2 days at a time as puppies and looked very thin (Vet checked and friend who is a behaviourist confirmed they were just very fussy!) sometimes you have to get it down them however you can.  This can be typical of them according to many in the know. I had no choice to add stuff to tempt them. Never having that problem since switching to raw. I know there are fussy eaters out there but mine just didnt like it and weren't bothered about food.  Then...........along came my Rotty pup who eats like mad and gets excited at meal times even doing a little twirl just before dinner is served!  very funny.

> Then...........along came my Rotty pup who eats like mad and gets excited at meal times even doing a little twirl just before dinner is served! 

Ahh bless, it's great to see them so pleased that dinner is on the way :) and makes for a great motivator for training too, my dog learnt so much as a pup at meal times :)