Hi we have a 20 wk pup who i feel is under weight, id like to know is their anything i can give him to help bulk him out abit. He has 2 good meals a day, 3 if i can get him to eat it, he has nether been very interested as a puppy would be with food. we have to realy encourage him to eat his meals so we cant give him extra as he wont eat it. have had him checked out with the vet who has said he is fine but could do with a few extra kg but in good health, he has a really big ribcage so no he sould be bigger. has anyone got any ideas as to what i could give him or encourage him with. its murder at ring craft as he aint interested in tasty treats so trying to get him to keep focused is hard work.
I havnt had this problem before with any of our dogs unless they were ill but then as soon as they were better they were eating and putting on the weight. im hopeing theirs something on the market that you can add to their meals to give them an appetite or something down those lines.
thanks guys Berni

mmm.... never had much of a problem with my girls refusing food :D But now and again one of them will decide she's fed up of the same food so I have to add various things just to get her to eat it :rolleyes: I've tried, with success, some of these toppings with her normal kibble
grated cheese, corned beef, scrambled or chopped up boiled egg, gravy, chicken juice (from the boiled chicken) chicken, sausages, cooked or raw liver (only once a week tho)
For treats/training try liver (cooked ) tripe sticks, sausages, chicken
The only thing I feed mine which is guarrenteed to put weight on them is raw chicken, or chicken and tripe.
I'm sure others will come up with more, if not better, suggestions

Dee

apparantly Animal Health Company do a product called Sorb Vit B,which is meant to help with this sort of thing,have known a couple of people use it with some success,
Wendy

Thanks wendy t will get some of that and try it.
weve tryed every thing and cooked everything we can think of but he is happy with his 2 meals and just not interested in anything else, its just the amount he eats in those 2 meals just aint enought. we have a 10 month old bitch same breed alaskan malamute who will eat any thing in sight we have 2 watch her weight as shes a bit of a chuncky.
Berni x

Hello there,

Our puppy was (and still is) a notoriously 'anorexic' pup (she's now 11 months old). To give you some idea at one point she went for nearly 4 days with no food (but was otherwise herself) ... and if she's had enough she'll even leave food with Nature's Diet/tripe mixed in with it . Most people (including her breeder and our vet) comment that she was/is a little on the lean side - but that this is miles better than a little fat :). It helped when people said I shouldn't judge her to other dogs around here as a lot of them were probably a little overweight. We kept reminding ourselves that dogs won't knowingly starve themselves and stuck to the 20 minute rule and no treats inbetween - which seemed (eventually) to kind-of do the trick. Mackerel in tomato sauce added also helped, as did a raw egg (shell and all).

One thing that helped us was to ignore her at mealtimes - the more we 'encouraged' her the more finicky she became. We've now got her on Arden Grange Prestige which has filled her out a bit - but I don't know if this is suitable for young pups.

For training we use baked liver chopped up. It smells rank when cooking (I'm vegetarian so you can imagine how much I like it ), but it seems to do the trick. The only trouble is that every other dog in class won't leave me alone . Another thing that worked was getting her toy focussed since she prefers play to food.

The next pup I have I want a total dustbin - life would be much easier :) .. hope that helps ...

My dog will eat anything with fish on it - he loves smelly food. Have you tried that? Dogs don't have much in the way of taste buds but tend to love smelly things. I feed him tinned tuna in spring water.