Building up food!!

[AllyCat]

As some of you may know I am fostering the handsome Ulysses known as Uly (U-lee). He has come to me painfully thin due to being starved. Now he hopefully will have a home but I cannot let him travel until he has gained some weight or atleast got him eating as a dog should.

My problem.......he is really fussy. He tends to pick at his food and the only real interest shown with fish or the ox heart I cooked up to tempt him this afternoon.

What I need is a good mix of tempting food that I can mix with his dry food to get him interested in eating again. He is hungry, he will try and pinch food from the kids if not watched but there is very little interest in his own food.

Does anyone have any ideas please? Bare in mind that he is on four meals a day and I need to find different things for every meal so far I've tried fish, meat stock, and ox heart. I do not want to use tinned meat as this quite often is too rich for dogs especially dogs that have been starved and my own dog cant have it, i dont think its fair to give one dog with out the other so so far this week my dogs are loving the new menu!!!

[ilsongirl]

Mince might help as it will be harder to pick out from the dry food.
My two really love fruit so some fruit pureed and then mix in might also work.

Good luck with getting him to eat.

Sarah

[Wooferhound]

I wouldn't cook the heart, leave it raw and let him enjoy it, it is far better for him raw (as long as it has been frozen first and then defrosted). I'd also get him on good quality dry diet to build him up and maybe add some tinned sardines in tomato sauce, the tomato is an appetite stimulant and may kick start him into wanting to eat.

Good luck

Jo
x

[zaclucy]

Good idea Jo, My 2 love tinned sardinnes in tomato sauce. They also love goats milk yoghurt mixed with goats milk, they have that every morning, and lap it up. There is no lactose in it, so it won't upset their tummies. You could try some of that ally.

Janet x

[AllyCat]

OOooo I didnt know that about tomato sauce!!! Thank you! I had been giveing him sardines in oil, wasnt sure about the sauce ones even though I got loads of tins in cupboard for my own two horrors!!

Yummy mince!!! If he dont eat it I bliddy will!!!!

I will leave the heart raw now coz they are in the freezer (yesterday I just brought them so they were fresh)

Goats Yoghurt mixed with goats milk sounds like a tasty brekkie for a special boy!! Will get some tomorrow me thinks!!

Wow thanks everyone for all your suggestions, hopefully the big boy will be eating in no time!! And I can write up a diet sheet for his possible new family so they dont have to struggle so much with the change.

This boy is gonna eat like a king!!!!