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My dog only eats meat. How do I get her to eat dry dog food?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed | Female | 27 lbs

My dog is not eating dog food that I bought from market. I used to give her chicken and rice. Now I don't have much time to prepare her food, so I bought dry dog food. She doesn't likes it. Smells it but doesn't eat. She only wants meat. She doesn't eat anything except chicken or any other meat. I thought to not give her food for one day and then try. She didn't ate food for 3 days . She is very picky. She is healthy as she is eating her meat very excitedly. I tried other dog food brands also.

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Answered By David Elbeze, DVM, MRCVS

Veterinarian

Published on December 15th, 2017

It's a big problem but what you can try and do is to mix the dry food with some meat, start with a lot of meat (70%) and a small amount of dry food. every day put a little bit more dry food and less meat, over 2-3 weeks you should remain with dry food only. hopefully you will get some good results.

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