I’ve been blessed (or cursed?) in life with an exceptionally clever terrier named Tucker. He has a ton of meals allergic reactions, so he has to eat this particular Pet Food with no wheat or rooster merchandise, and years in the past we settled on shopping for him the salmon taste. Six months or so in the past, tragedy struck our family when the shop quickly ran out of his go-to bag. Being naive, I grabbed a bag of white fish meals in the identical model as an alternative. Fish is fish, proper? NO. No, it isn’t.

The primary day I served him the brand new meals he flipped his bowl over. The second day once I did it once more, he flipped the bowl over and put his meals’s placemat on prime of it. Day three once I was nonetheless attempting to get away with this whitefish sham he pushed his meals bowl throughout the room to the rubbish can after which collected random trash and positioned it on prime of his meals within the bowl. With that, I lastly obtained the message, and I made a particular journey to an out-of-town retailer so his salmon might return.

For an animal that’s excited by consuming each discarded burrito, chip, and sandwich on the highway throughout our morning walks, my canine has a very selective palate, which suggests getting him to eat something new is a bit difficult.

He’s definitely not distinctive. Animals, like individuals, get used to their favourite flavors and could be reluctant to alter. Whenever you’re truly planning on swapping meals (I wasn’t) you may attempt slowly mixing the brand new with the previous in order that they don’t catch what’s occurring till it’s too late.

When you must make a sudden change, Reddit person ucffool has an fascinating thought: crush up treats and put them in an previous seasoning bottle, after which use it to “season” the brand new meals with a taste you understand your pet already enjoys.

Their put up suggests utilizing and making the seasoning particularly for cats, however I feel it might work properly for just about any animal. Including a light-weight dusting of that taste they take pleasure in might have the identical influence as mixing the brand new meals up with the previous, and can make transition to one thing new (or tricking them into consuming the one factor they’d on the retailer) and simpler proposition.

If the seasoning doesn’t work, there’s at all times the primary solution to each canine’s coronary heart: peanut butter.