Melinda is right. Dogs can easily be trained to be picky eaters. Our
two year old is a shelter dog and she ate everything we put in front
of her in the beginning (which was dry dog food as her basic food, raw
veggies, and dog biscuits as treats.) She came to us undernourished
so she was in heaven just to get regular feedings.

Our other dog is elderly and pretty much lost interest in food, I
don't know if it hurt her teeth or was just uninteresting. She's
never been a problem eater before but at fourteen, she became picky
and losing weight so we started putting additives to entice her. Well
you can't treat one dog without treating both so the two year old got
additives too.

We'd add pieces of bacon and add water so the flavor would get around,
or soup, or cottage cheese, or anything we thought wouldn't be junkie
but would be tasty and coat the food to entice the old dog. It worked
for awhile.

But then the old dog lost interest even in the additives. And now the
two year old doesn't want plain old dog food anymore. If it doesn't
have additives, she doesn't want it.

So we put the food down, both dogs look at us like, "Well? That's the
best you can do?" If it was just the two year old I wouldn't fuss,
I'd leave the food down and when you're hungry you will eat. But the
fourteen year old dog... hard to do...

Moral of the story... by putting additives in the food we turned a
young dog who was more than happy with her dog food into a picky
little booger.

Shari

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