can anyone reccomend a dry food that their fussy dog will eat, I started my dog on naturediet as I thought it was the best thing but now I need to budget for a while and she refuses to eat the dry food i have tried, mid price ones eg jwb and burns, and autarky which I thought looked brill for the price. she is now eating tinned butchers which seems the best quality tinned I can find but although it says complete it looks like mostly meat, she is very active so surely she needs more carbs? so I thought dried may be better?

Dogs will eat what you want them to when they get hungry enough.  Try putting a little oil over the dry food to see if that makes it more appealing.

I too have a very fussy toy poodle who i feed mainly on natures menu I also Buy Royal Canin Mini sensible which is advertised for fussy eaters which I offer in a kong. I have a younger toy poodle as well who is the complete opposite and eats very well although he prefers the wet food. Hope this helps.

sorry just to add the fussy one is a Bearded collie one year old, the pug will eat anything which is typical as she is small and trying to keep her weight steady shes allowed such a small amount I could afford to feed her something really gorgeous!!

Hi there,

I'm currently feeding a mixture of type of food but the complete I'm using is JWB lamb and rice which seems to be suiting each of the dogs for pallatability as they eat raw food and ND as well so would IME turn their noses up at the kibble if they didn't enjoy it :)

Whichever dry complete you settle for, as Cheryl suggested add a little something to it which wont break the bank :)  You could try just adding a little warm water to release the aroma more, or perhaps some tinned sardines/salmon, grated cheese, grated cooked offal etc - not much just enough to add an interesting flavour and not in large enough pieces to be picked out :)

HTH, regards Teri

I think Royal Canin do a sensible kibble for medium size dogs as well. If this helps.

i use wainwrights dry and mix with wainwrights wet, tess was a fussy eater but now has settled and enjoys her food, she loves a sunday dinner mixed with just the dry i put alitttle chicken in, also occasionally i will add tuna or when shes really being awkward it will make aliitle gravy for her and woosh its all gone, i think sometimes they get bored or sometimes just being dam awkward because she feels she can!!!!!

For fussy eaters i would go for Arden Grange prestige, or Royal Canin mini junior.

thanks all will try some you have mentioned, with some added extras if need be!

What I have used to 'tempt'...chicken dripping, a small dessert spn full, mixed with some warm water and poured over and stired in, or a small spnful of something like clover/butter/marg again mixed with warm water and poured over and stired in.

I have sympathy with the problem Jake (border) ate Bents when he came and still on Bents. Whistler (Cocker) was on Eukanuba, then Bents (runs) science diet (runs), JWB (runs) and we got onto natures diet - ok. However he does not eat much so I take it up after half and hour or Jake will eat it. Then he will only get a tooth stick once a day and one pigs ear, after a few days he will clear his dish. To tempt him I use grated cheese (sparingly) which he accepts for a bit. Or I relay on the fact, that like kids, he will not starve himself to death. He is weighing in at 12.7kg at 1 year and the vet says he is healthy.

Viv

Hello,
From experience with a once very fussy eater, I can recommend Arden Grange Prestige. Its high in calories so they don't need to eat loads of it to get proper nutrition and I don't know of a dog that has turned its nose up at it - maybe worth a try. It is expensive compared to the rest of the Arden Grange lines but as mentioned previously, you don't feed huge amounts.

I know the Prestige is much higher fat but does anyone know the fat % in the regular (not senior or puppy) Arden Grange feeds just for comparison?

AG lamb and rice - oil 16% omega6 3.5% omega3 0.4%     fat from chicken fat and fish oil

I feed Oscars complete but will vary it and tempt Freddie with other things. Sometimes a bit of fish or chicken or past in with the biscuits. Oil or gravy drizzled over normally tempts my dog. Maybe try that?