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09 July 2011

Little Miss Picky

This cute little thing, Ginny, well, don't let her fool you. She is as picky as they get. She only eats her dog food when she is absolutely starving and there is no sight of human food anywhere. Now, the good news is, we aren't totally worried about her eating habits because she doesn't wolf down everything in sight. However, her pickiness has made me realize that it's actually easy to "trick" her into eating her dog food. For example, all Dave has to do to get her to eat is to put one little piece of human food in her bowl and she gobbles it up! Amazing!! Problem solved! But, we do give her little things every now and then and this is what we've discovered our sweet Ginny likes to eat.

1. She loves her food cooked in egg yolk (we do this occasionally because it's good for her coat). When we do this, she inhales her food... and we usually only give her one yolk (cooked) with a few tablespoons of kibble mixed in.
2. She goes CRAZY for barbecue... especially pork ribs. It's like she's died and gone to heaven. When we barbecue, you see her almost twitching as she sits watching us devour the deliciousness.
3. Chips/pretzels... anything like that.
4. Carrots, broccoli, oranges, apples
5. Cheese! oh boy... she waits at our feet when we grate cheese
6. Peanut butter (really though, who doesn't?)
7. Meat (any kind actually)
8. She really WANTS to like chocolate chip cookies (especially straight out of the oven) and mint chocolate chip ice cream, but no chocolate for Ginny. :)

OK, so most dogs will eat just about anything, our sweet puppy does not like the following:
1. Pickles
2. Strawberries
3. Cucumbers
4. Lobster
5. Asparagus
6. Zucchini

As you probably guessed, she will eat most things, even if it's not her favorite, these are just the things that she absolutely won't eat :)

3 comments:

Erin said...

I love this post because it reminds me of my dog. I think it's actually hilarious how dogs will refuse certain kinds of human food. Really? You will eat crap on the sidewalk but turn down steamed vegetables or certain types of poultry? And our dog has us hooked too. She won't eat her dog food without at least a few "gifts" inside! They have us wrapped around their, uh, paws... :)

LuLu said...

OMG cheese, broccoli, PASTA, anything i'm cooking. If I give her plain kibble she looks at me like I am the worst person in the world!

LuLu said...

The ONLY thing she won't currently eat is spinach. She even swallows pills like they are candy...