If he doesn't like the texture, try feeding them partially or fully frozen. Sometimes that does the trick if texture is the only objection.

 

Yeah, Ania won the tough-love game with fish too. SO she just got canned.

But I figured that MY tastes are always changing, maybe hers would too. So I tried to give her talapia fillets. No go. I soaked them in the blood of whatever else was in the fridge for her. Didn't work. So I barely seared them. She ate them!! And after only two days!

So yeah, I bet it's a texture thing for many dogs with fish. I think that a lot of humans are the same about it. There's just something fishy about that texture...

 

So yeah, I bet it's a texture thing for many dogs with fish. I think that a lot of humans are the same about it. There's just something fishy about that texture...

Gah! Bad pun, Bad pun! :biggrin:

This is good information, (freezing, searing), should I ever find something my dogs won't eat.

 

My dogs have never been crazy about fish...I think it's just a lot more bland than other meat.

 

I think Flip and Lucky would get along splendidly. They could both talk smack about how we try to feed them....fish....yuck. :tongue:

Duncan loves his raw fish, but Lucky I think is actually afraid of it. LOL. Yup. She looks at it with a face of udder horror. She now gets canned with some extra fish oil. My little princess.....

 

LOL!

He would keep picking it up and making the 'yuck' face, then he'd spit it out and 'air chew'.
So I brought Garbage Disposal Dog in to have a look at the left over fish.

Flip inhaled it quickly then, but still with the 'icky' face.

 

Jordan will eat canned mackeral and smelt with egg and shell mixed in with it. He seems to only eat smaller fish. I gave him some black fish and telapia and no go. I'm okay with the smaller fish but it does take quite a bit to make a meal so I usually mix it with some organ and make it a smorgasbord meal. Jubillee eats the black fish though and she needs some extra weight so I've been looking for something that she will eat and he won't feel so badly. She won't touch the telapia so I think I'm going to cut it up and see if it gets eaten that way or just trash it. That is the only thing so far that she won't eat.

 

bubba eats everything, except for raw fish...he prefers his bedding materiel to thawed raw fish.

but frozen?

both eat frozen fish...and i mean frozen...

it's the same with liver and kidney, too.

everything else, they eat thawed.

 

I hit the fish markets here but they are all closed!!! Til March or April. Boo whoo! I wanted to try and get some sole and other fish.

 

I'm having trouble getting my dog to eat fish too, which is a shame. I got some free fish scraps, and it would be a good thing if he would it eat, since it would cut costs. What I got was mostly mackerel without the fillets. Sure it isn't the best thing to feed, but it would be perfect to combine the scraps with some of the cheapest fillets I can find. But no, he won't eat it. We are trying the tough love approach right now, and we'll see how it goes...

 

Good luck and keep us posted on how it goes!

 

have you tried freezing the fish? maybe it's the texture....

the only fish my dogs eat without being frozen is primal ground sardine....

but whole fish like mackerel, sardines, smelt? got to be frozen....

also, when we started fish, we gave tiny thumbnail sized pieces for a few weeks....just to get them used to the taste. we did that with organs, too.

 

I haven't tried freezing the fish scraps, but I tried handing him a tiny frozen herring (sold as fish bait) that I keep as treats for the cats. He tried it and spit it out. Fish that isn't frozen he usually sniffs and then don't even try it.

Stupid dog...

 

he's got the best face, though....