Tips to get a pet to eat!

How can you get a healthy dog to eat if they are refusing the food. The first thing to do is to check there is no illness present by a vet. If he/she is very active and normal in every other way, tips that may help to get her eating are:

1) Make sure the food you are giving her isn't stale. For example, in the case of dry dog food - make sure it is being stored in air tight container or the bag is sealed well. Stale biscuits lose both their smell and flavour.
2) Don't leave food out for her - bad training more than anything else. Put the food down and give her 5-10 minutes to eat it. If she rejects the food, take it away and offer it again at the next mealtime. You need to decide when she eats not vice versa.
3) Don't feed her snacks all the time; this will obviously make her not want to eat her regular meal. For training purposes, it is perfectly acceptable to use her regular food (biscuits) as a reward (which makes her less fussy).
4) Make sure she's exercised enough - doing work and exercise will increase her appetite.
5) To stimulate her to eat, heating food with strong smells like fish or liver, may stimulate the appetite.
6) Trying cat food for a while can be useful for the short term (try wet cat tinned food like tuna flavoured whiskas). Don't feed a dog this long term however.
7) Appetite stimulants like cyproheptadine and mirtazipine can be used as a last resort to varying degrees of success.

Hope the above helps, if all else fails, let her eat cat faeces - every dog can't get enough of it (only kidding).