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What do you do when your dog hates raw?

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So I figured I would try my dog on a Raw Bison bone, just to see how he does, I switched him to evo, so I was debating raw food. He totally hated it. I tried it frozen, and I tried it thawed out and he wouldn't touch it. Any suggestions?
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What kind of dog do you have? Were you trying the pre-made raw diets you can buy in stores? Those diets tend to be filled with veggies that aren't necessary to dogs and the Nature's Variety has a really high bone content. If this is what you're offering him, maybe he doesn't like that about it.

If so, try just real raw meat like a raw chicken drumstick. Offer it to him, put it in his mouth so he knows he won't get in trouble for eating "people food" (my dogs had the same fear when I first started them).

If he still refuses to eat it, try cutting off pieces of the chicken and offering it to him in smaller bite sizes.

If he STILL refuses to eat it, offer it to him in the morning with no other food options. If he turns his nose up at it, give him 20 minutes to eat it before putting it back in your fridge. Offer it again to him that night. Give him no other food besides what you offer him until he gets hungry enough to eat. As RawFedDogs has said on here before: you aren't starving them if you're offering them food.

It may take a few days before he comes around, but trust me, he'll eat when he's hungry.
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So I figured I would try my dog on a Raw Bison bone, just to see how he does, I switched him to evo, so I was debating raw food. He totally hated it. I tried it frozen, and I tried it thawed out and he wouldn't touch it. Any suggestions?
He totally hated what? A bison bone? I don't blame him. Was the bone bare? Those things are much too hard to eat. Check out my web page in my sig. It will get you started in the right direction.
American eskimo...it had meat on it as well. it was a Nature's Variety one.
I gave my dogs RMBs today, and they had a big fight, one finished before the other, I can not imagine a dog not liking bones with meat.
Yeah like I said, the Nature's Variety ones have a high bone content and a lot of veggies in them. Try a regular chicken drumstick and see how he likes it. Or to get him used to the flavor of raw chicken, cut off a piece of the drumstick first and feed it to him. Then give him the drumstick. If he refuses, try the method I outlined in my first response.
I will try that. Yeah I was shocked he wouldn't eat it.
Is it okay to get that with the bone as well, or boneless?
The bone is absolutely essential for calcium intake but they have to be raw so they can eat and digest them without splintering. You can start with boneless if that entices him to eat, but he'll have to eat bone later on.
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