1. Always ensure that the food has human contact
2. Exercise your dog
3. Be calm, not excited about feeding
Very often, choosy eaters are usually the fast learners, or fast learners are usually choosy eaters. They are intelligent enough to imagine that the food you are giving are not safe for his consumption. I am not saying they are intelligently correct...they just had the capacity to be suspicious.
So to tackle this problem, all you need to do is to hold your food in your hands, and then feed your baby.
This can mean:
1. Holding his food up to his mouth and letting him eat from your hand
2. Touching his food with your palm, and then leaving the food on the bowl for him to eat.
Why this works? There are chemical/odors on your hand. If the dog can associate the your odor with the food, trust is established and these negative doubts will just melt away.
If this still doesn't work, then your dog needs to exercise.
I am not saying your dog should pant and therefore starve...
Exercise brings about endorphins, happy feelings.
Some picky eaters have too much fear in their body. Hence they are fearful and distrustful. Endorphins are internal drug produced by the dog's and even human's own body and will melt away these fear.
Overall, you should feed your dog in a calm composed manner. Not too excited.
I know it seems fun to feed your dog, but to his perspective, that excitement translates to uncertainty.
But calmness or boringness translates to certainty and therefore trust.
In the pic of this post is Miki. When we first adopted her, she was very thin, fearful and nervous.
We can't even pinch the skin off. It was literally skin and bones.
And when we first presented her with food, she doesn't eat at first.
So I did what I taught you, and yup she ate them!
Easy simple tip for you awesome dog lovers to follow:)
This was Miki taken from the kennel of SPCA. See how thin she was. Emaciated is a better word:
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