Finicky Eater

[mattman1471]

My lit' corgi Audrey seems to be a picky eater when it comes to dry food. I've tried a couple different brands and she hasn't really latched onto any one of them. I always have to coaks her into eating and she usually only nibbles. She's 9 months now and I would have thought that she'd develop a solid eating routine by now. Does anyone have the same sort of problems?.. or any suggestions on brands of food for Corgis. Thanks.

[Chip's Mom]

My three seem to be finicky eaters too. I feed canidae dry and also mix in a a little bit of the canned food and wet it all a little and they still aren't chowhounds. They are all three of a good weight so I don't worry much about it. Taffy is just 4 months old today so I feed her puppy food canned and dry mixed. I have tried her with Purina ProPlan, Eagle Pack and Innova puppy food and she still would rather eat the canidae so I put a little canidae in with her puppy food.

[mattman1471]

I've never heard of Canidae dog food....is it a special brand or do you purchase it from a pet store? Thanks...it's nice to know that Audrey has company in the the finicky department!

[Chip's Mom]

You purchase it from a pet store. I buy mine at pet partners but I am sure petco and several other pet stores would carry it. It is for all life stages and I think it is a good dog food. Yes, from what I hear most corgis like to eat so it's good to know that some are a bit finicky.

[KJohnson]

We use Canidae also (the all stages formula!), but they don't sell it in pet stores (PetSmart//PetCo)) in our area, you can find it at Pet Nutrition stores such as Mud Bay.

[Corgis'R4me]

*~* Midnight & Sunshine like Nutro Ultra Adult dry food.
They have been on it from the beginning.

They became finicky when my children's father started to COOK FOOD for them every night...such as: steamed white rice, boneless chicken breasts, peas & gravy.

Midnight has ALWAYS been a, "Chowhound" and will puke up most of it due to eating too much and too fast.

Sunshine never seemed too interested in the cooked food....seemed to just be satisfied with the Ultra dry food.

NO MORE cooked food for them...they are strickly on the Ultra dry food.
They seem happier with just the dry food and occassional Breath Buster
doggie cookies.

*~* Nikki

[MyPemCharlie]

I just switched Charlie from puppy food to Canidae All Life Stages a couple of weeks ago. He's gone from a picky young puppy to a typical "vaccuum cleaner" when it comes to food. He seems to really like the Canidae and it is agreeing with him. We have a new Pet Supplies Plus store here that carries Canidae and many other premium brands. (I was surprised that PetSmart didn't carry any of the premium brands I was considering.)

[behinderhereyes]

I have switch brands of food seven times. But my dog is almost 11 months old and Still have to coaks her into eating. She just has a short attention span and likes to be with people all the time.

[glencorgi]

Switching food a lot will increase the tendency to be finicky. Put the bowl of food down, give them 15 minutes to eat and then take the food away. They get nothing else until the next feeding. They'll eat after a couple of times of this. Been there, done this and got the t-shirt. And to quote Millie Williams of Kallista Corgis, a pile of corgi bones has never been found lying next to a full bowl of food.

Debbie

[Louwants]

Wow, fincky corgis! I wish Duncan was like that! He doesn't inhale his food as soon as I put it down, but sometime during the day or night, he eats it. In fact, I try and watch to make sure he doesn't eat Chloe's food first then his. Chloe is a hider. She'll take a mouthful and try and "bury" it in a corner or under her bed. Which to Duncan is a scavenger hunt.

[Michael Romanos]

Taylor is on ProPlan and is destined to be for the next two years. He seems to be as enthusiastic with it as he was with Hills Science and Nutrience. However I always add supplements to his daily meals and it is these 'specials' that he sorts out first before tackling the dry kibble. He always leaves the food bowl spotless after a meal and always consumes his meal within three minutes. I keep his weight down to 26-28 pounds and therefore his total daily food intake is carefully monitored- this reduces any chance of slackening off eating the good food he gets.

[FoxysMommy]

My Foxy can also be a very finicky eater. She's been like that since we got her... I've tried all kinds of expensive, well-respected brands of kibble and she just wasn't into any of them.

For a long time I tried mixing canned food into dry and all sorts of things, even made her home cooked a few times too. Well, she would pick out the canned food and leave the dry food.

Each time I tried a new food, she like the new stuff for a few days and then gradually stopped liking it ... eventually getting to the point where she wouldn't eat a bite of any of her food -- canned or kibble.

So, one day I got mad at all the money and time spent trying to find a food that she'd like and just bought a good brand of kibble (not the most expensive or most highly-acclaimed, but one that I felt was healthy), put a bowl of the darned plain kibble down and wouldn't you know... she ate it all.

The secret was finding something she liked, restraining myself from hovering about while she tried to eat and -- to echo Debbie's advice -- take the bowl away when feeding time is over.

[glencorgi]

At nine months too, her molars could be coming in, so she may be having some pain from teething and associating that with eating. Try moistening/softening the food a bit and see if that helps.

Debbie