How to Accustom your Dog to a Diet

A dog accustomed to any specific diet that satisfies itand keeps it healthy will generally have a difficult time becoming accustomed to any other diet. In making a change, the point to remember isthat once you have decided on a sound diet, every member of the household must cooperate to see that nothing is fed to upset the schedule you have adopted. If Toby is put on a diet of canned food when he has previously been eating chicken with buttered broccoli, he most be starved, if necessary, until he eats the canned dog food. Any member of the family who feels sorry for him and gives him even a scrap of chicken or broccoli will defeat the whole plan and will be punished by having a spoiled pet continually begging for more of the same. Give your dogs only a good type of dehydrated dog food. There area number of excellent ones on the market. Sometimes when we have bought new dogs that have been brought up on fancy diets, it has beenmost difficult to change their feeding habits to the food of our choice. One large dog lost eighteen pounds before it accepted the change. Itwas seven days before it would touch a morsel of the meal - type food.Now it gulps it with evident enjoyment and is healthy and sleek.