My Yorkie won't eat dog food, only human food. What to do if on meds?

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My 6 years Yorkie don't wanna eat any dog food, we already tried 2 brands and still won't eat, he eats bread or rice, He is on medication cause of his cough what should i do? Pet's info: Dog | Yorkshire Terrier | Male | neutered | 90 lbs

Jeffrey Milner · Accepted Answer

You might consider trying canned food if you aren't doing so already. If you have, I would continue to keep trying other brands. You can also consider taking any brand of dog food and mixing in some chicken or scrambled eggs to spice things up. Just realize that if you do that you will be doing it forever since Jake will never want to go back. Also you will need to monitor Jake's caloric intake carefully since he is a small breed dog. Calories from chicken and eggs will add up quickly and can result in an overweight dog. As far as medication, obviously whatever you need to do to get the medication down is fine. I tell my clients that are having trouble to use sticky things like peanut butter, marshmallow fluff, cream cheese, so on and so forth. Given that Jake is a dog prone to coughing (I don't know anything about his medical history) it will be especially important to find something that he doesn't fuss about too much in order to avoid getting him into a fit of coughing or possible aspiration of materials into the lungs. Hope this makes sense. Let me know if I can assist you further.

My Yorkie won't eat dog food, only human food. What to do if on meds?

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