Shay Needs Food

Having a dog who is not food motivated is one thing. Having a dog who is a picky eater is another. But having a dog who is a picky eater who does not eat everyday is a problem. At 14 Shay is getting too thin. She does not like most foods and she needs to eat more.

I took her to the vet for some tests for other aging issues, but we always end up talking about her weight and how to find food she will eat. There are no commercial foods she will eat. I have spent a fortune trying foods only to have her turn her nose up at all of them.

We buy human food and cook for her. The problem comes that she will like a food, say steak, one day and then not the next. Our vet says there may be a nutrition program at the vet school that can give us menus. Menus are fine, but if Shay does not like the taste it does not matter how nutritious it is.

Tonight I did luck into getting Shay to eat a bunch of peanut butter with her steak and cheese and a milk bone. It was a good eating night. At least it was caloric.

Problems such as this we don’t have in our house of humans. Who knew that a dog could be such a food diva. She hates going to the vet. If I told her she would not have to go if only she would eat I would do that.