??? about feeding Raw

[*Eva*]

How do you get your dog to eat raw when she absolutely refuses to eat it? I can give her steak, chicken, darn near anything and if its raw she'll pick it up, spit it out and look at me like I've lost my mind lol. Any ideas?

[greenmagick]

As long as there are no health issues, just dont give her anything else til she eats it....if she knows that if she turns her nose up at it you will get her something else she will keep doing that. Luckily, mine switched pretty easily. My new pup loved it at first and then started acting a bit weird. After the 3ed skipped meal (1 1/2 days) she started eating again and now is all about it, eating her total full amount and prancing around when she sees it coming

How long have you been giving her?

[Ola_]

There are several suggestions for this, one of them is above.

However my first question is what do you do when she does this? It's very easy to reward that behaviour without realizing it.

[mistymama]

Unless your pup has bad teeth or some other health problem, I would just put the food back up and offer it again at the next meal time. I'm willing to bet she will figure it out pretty quickly.

Raw is new and different, and does not smell as strong as kibble, so some dogs just are not interested at first. But they will not go hungry!

I shut our dog in his crate to eat, sometimes I think it helps to not sit there and watch them, kwim?