I have 3 adult dogs, one Great Dane, one German Shepherd, and one Rottweiler. After we tried to change them to adult food, they wouldn't eat it. They only ate their old puppy food. We've tried a lot of different brands too, and they won't eat it.
How do I get my dogs to stop eating puppy food?
I have 3 adult dogs, one Great Dane, one German Shepherd, and one Rottweiler. After we tried to change them to adult food, they wouldn't eat it. They only ate their old puppy food. We've tried a lot of different brands too, and they won't eat it.... General Dog Discussions : How do I get my dogs to stop eating puppy food?...
How do I get my dogs to stop eating puppy food?General Dog Discussions
I have 3 adult dogs, one Great Dane, one German Shepherd, and one Rottweiler. After we tried to change them to adult food, they wouldn't eat it. They only ate their old puppy food. We've tried a lot of different brands too, and they won't eat it.
How do I get my dogs to stop eating puppy food?
How do I get my dogs to stop eating puppy food?General Dog Discussions
Stop giving it to them as an option and get some good stuff that they will like or stuff that is sort of like the other kind. Answer my 3rd question by clicking my name please! Thanks a bunch! Good Luck! I hope this helps! Merry Christmas!
Gradually wean them off of it by mixing adult food with the puppy food for about a month...once they get used to it, they wont' realize it's the adult food (hopefully).
Hmm...Try taking the food they like and over a few days mix a little bit more of the adult food until they're eating straight adult food. That's what worked for my dog!
Don't let them have the puppy food. let them get used to the new food by not giving them anything else. they'll go hungry and eventually eat it. My parents used the same technique on us kids lol
What are you feeding? A dog knows when someting isn't good for them?Here are some real good healthy brands:Innova, California Natural, Blue buffalo, wellness, Evo and there are many more.Don't feed them that crap you can get at the grocery store (or anyting you can get at walmart or target) Science diet is pure junk too.My dogs wouldn't even touch Purina, Pedigree, or Science diet.We feed california Naturals after having to force feed our poodle for over a year and him almost dying from that crap food.Good luckThey get real excited at meal time now. And our poodle has got himself back up to a proper weight. They know when something isn't good for them
Just don't feed them there puppy food or anything else. Leave the dog food out and eventually they will get hungry and just go eat. That's what I do with my puppy and it always works!
Put it down and do not give them anything else. They will not starve themselves, they will eat it when they get hungry enough. It's time to practice a little tough love.Make sure you're feeding a high quality brand of dog food.Not all pet food is made equally. A lot of it is full of corn, by-products, dyes, unhealthy preservatives, filler grains and all sorts of nasty stuff. A lot of pet food companies are perfectly happy to the dump cheap leftovers and things that aren't safe for human consumption (from human food processing plants) into their foods. Will it kill your dog? No, it has to be nutritionally complete and safe to even be marketed. Is it healthy? Not by a long shot.Corn is a low quality ingredient you never want to see in your pet food. Corn and low quality grains are two of the biggest culprits when it comes to food allergies in our pets.Thankfully, there are some excellent dog foods being made these days that include organic, human grade ingredients rather than trash not fit for human consumption.Examples of low quality foods to avoid: Anything you can find in a grocery store will be low end, Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Royal Canin, Pedigree, Kibbles n' Bits, Beneful, Ol'Roy.Examples of high quality foods to look for: Innova, Wellness, Solid Gold, Canidae All Life Stages, Fromm Four Star, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature's Variety Prairie, Nature's Logic, Artemis Fresh Mix, Timberwolf Organics.Although the high quality foods are more expensive, you're getting what you're paying for. Less filler material means more concentrated nutrients... this means you typically need to feed far less of the high quality food than you would of the low quality one. Which also means less poop!Seriously on a budget? Two of the most affordable of the high quality foods would be Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul and Canidae All Life Stages.Before following your vet's food recommendation, keep in mind that vets get /very/ little nutritional training during their schooling. Besides that, what training they /do/ get is usually sponsored or taught by the crappy pet food companies! They also often get paid to sell some of their products at their clinics (Science Diet, Royal Canin etc.)A great option is to go with an entirely grainless diet. Many of the high quality foods now put out grainless formulas. Some good grainless diets include: Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Orijen, Horizon Legacy, Merrick Before Grain, Canidae Grain Free All Life Stages, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now!, Sold Gold Barking At The Moon, Ziwipeak, and Taste of the Wild.Some pretty decent foods can even be found in common pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness, Solid Gold, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack Holistic Select, Blue Buffalo, Castor & Pollux Organix, Pinnacle, and Halo. If you can't find a food, most of the high quality food brands have websites with store locators on them.Another option, if you can't find anywhere around you that sells good foods, is to order your pet food online. Here's an excellent place to do so: http://www.petfooddirect.com/store/Remember that foods should be switched gradually (mixing new slowly in with the old over about week or so), especially when switching to a higher quality one, so as not to upset tummies.Another option for feeding dogs is to feed raw. This is something that should be thoroughly researched before being attempted:http://www.rawfed.com/ (Excellent raw feeding information)http://www.rawlearning.com/ (More excellent raw feeding information)http://rawfeddogs.net/ (Even more!)http://rawfed.com/myths/preymodel.html (Raw Prey Model Diet Vs. BARF Diet)http://www.rawfed.com/myths/index.html (Myths about raw feeding)Also remember that freefeeding (leaving food down) is the fast lane to canine obesity. Make sure to have scheduled feeding times based on the feeding instructions on your dog's food.More on dog food:http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=main (Learn how to determine the quality of your dog's food.)http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/ (Dog food reviews. Four stars is a decent food, five stars is a great food, and six stars is an excellent food.)Darksong~
See, you are changing it too fast, one from the next. The way to change a dog's food is to start by having it mostly old kibble for a couple days with a little new kibble mixed with it. Then slowly decrease the old stuff and increase the new stuff until it's all new kibble. It's about a 10 day process.After that, any time dogs won't eat, just feed them morning and evening, and nothing in between. They might skip one or two meals. No biggie. They won't let themselves starve.The dog food police will tell you to buy the most expensive stuff. My first three dogs did just fine on Purina. This dog I have now eats Eukanuba Naturally Wild, which has no corn in it. Feed what works well for your dogs.
