Can I feed just canned food to my Husky?

You can but check the label - most are 80% MOISTURE which is hardly an adequate diet for any dog. Try softening the kibble a bit so it mixes better with the tinned meat - you say your vet has checked her .... did he look inside her mouth? Unless she's always been like this, she could have some dental problem going on so eating hard food actually hurts.

I'd not buy a high protein food - if she's an adult, she doesn't need that - the protein should be around 20%, if that. And have you tried a fish diet? There are many commercially made fish diets on the market these days.

If the vet has passed your dog as "Healthy", then have you tried not feeding the dog for 2 days and then try feeding kibble softened with hot water until its crumbly and then mixing half a can of dog meat THOROUGHLY into it, so its impossible for the dog to separate the meat from the mashed kibble.

If the dog still refuses to eat it, then take it away and offer again 8 hours later until the dog WILL eat it.

NO treats or any other food to be offered in between.

A dog can go for a week without food and suffer no bad effects as long at its got water.

If your dog knows that if she holds out she will get canned meat, then obviously she will refuse the kibble.

Canned meat alone is not a good diet for a dog and will not put weight on the dog due to its high water content.

Your vet will love getting the money you spend on health checks, and if he can fine nothing wrong with the dog then I feel its pointless taking the dog back to the vets.

Your dog does NOT need an expensive high protein diet.

What she needs, is to learn that she eats what she is given or she goes without.

No HEALTHY dog will deliberately starve itself to death....believe me.

Maybe a bit more tough love from you is needed here, to get your dog eating a sensible and nourishing meal.

We’ve cheated with the canned food to add weight to our recovering dogs. Ask your vet about adding puppy kibble mixed with the canned food, puppy foods higher in a lot of the nutrients needed for growing, it also helps for weight gain.

Otherwise mix the kibble in with the wet but first wed the warm water, wait until it’s pretty much softened but not overly watery. Mix well the canned food with the dry kibble gruel. Start with a small amount of kibble so the dog doesn’t give you the stink eye and refuses to eat it. We usually start with as little as 1/4 cup then work up. It doesn’t seem like much but it doesn’t hurt their digestive tract since they are not used to it, gradual changes they tend to ignore until you get around half and half, by that time the dogs used to the new taste and will eat the mush.

If your worried about dental issues they have dental chews available, are biscuits r a combination of those an help keep teeth clean, ask your vet about using those also.

Good luck.

There are high-nutrient wet foods you could try, but usually they are not canned but instead tubbed.

I would suggest trying Nature's harvest , this is available in various flavours but it's also nutritional. My Husky is fussy but she loves this.

Royal Canin is another higher quality food which also comes in cans.

Your vet may be able to advise you on a raw diet? Good luck!

No, you aslo need to feed it chocolate

No, you cannot. Canned food is 75% WATER, regardless of brand. Despite labeling, it is NOT a "complete and balanced diet" for any dog, and as you may have noticed by now, it is SUPER expen$ive, with a can costing $2.30 to 2.50 a piece. It is also not a HIGH protein diet, per se.

I do not know if you moistened the kibble (with warm soup or stew) and made it soft and added the canned food to it & made a watery goo or SLOP -( sort of like a puppy gruel) that your dog could STILL "pick out the kibble" esp if the kibble had soften or gotten to the point of beginning to dissolve. And I KNOW if you went to the trouble of putting said kibble while still dry into a blender or grinder & let's say making into more of a 'powdered' format & then adding warm liquid, plus canned food - your dog COULD NOT do as it has been, PERIOD. Of course, it could simply "choose" NOT to eat as much, as is needed...

Huskies can be finicky eaters, by nature. Have you bothered to do any READING on the subject? OR have you talked to your breeder, found a local Husky club (where you can get a mentor) or talked to anyone on Husky advice blogs or boards?

IMO, if your dog is thought to need a higher protein diet, it might be suited to be on a RAW diet of meat and bone, but of COURSE most (western medicine vets) versus holistic vets, will never advocate that route. But that does not mean you cannot do some serious reading (on that subject) and decide to embark on that route - if none of the above, works for you.

However, DO NOT start on a raw diet, without KNOWING enough to feed your dog a reasonably balanced diet, at least as you rotate the diet around, on a say weekly basis. Fish or fish oil and some small amount or organ meats, is also an important part of most raw diets. You have to either feed raw bone or a bone substitute (such as powdered bone meal found in nutrition stores, or egg shells). And you have to know how MUCH calcium to feed per the amount of protein fed. I have NEVER seen any dog turn its nose up at RAW meat.....unless it was on its death bed.

Why? It has very little nutritional value since it's 85% water and may promote periodontal disease even if you provide routine dental hygiene.

A healthy dog will eat whatever you place in front of him, dogs are only picky because their owners make them that way, none will intentionally starve themselves, it will eat whet it gets hungry enough, so stop spoiling the dog, as long as he knows you will feed something better, he will refuse to eat his kibble.

Has it had a routine fecal exam done?

No free feeding, measure out a total daily amount, appropriate according to body condition/activity, feed on a set schedule twice daily, am/pm, split into those two meals, water should be available 24/7.free choice, place the pre-measured amount down for 5-10 minutes, then pick it up whether eaten or not, and offer it again at the next meal, feed nothing else, you should see an improvement in appetite within 3-4 days, if not get a second opinion from another vet.

If that’s all she’ll eat it is better than eating nothing.

I once had a dog that would eat only roasted turkey for the last two years of her life, so I cooked a turkey every 10 days.

I make a “dog stew” of ground turkey or lean beef browned in a little butter, then add finely diced carrots or sweet potato and spinach or chard, then simmer it all til the veges are very tender. This goes over my dogs kibble. I’ve never met a dog who wouldn’t eat this and all my girlfriends whose dogs I occasionally care for now made this same recipe for their dogs because they like it so much when they stay with me.

1.5 lb.s ground turkey or lean beef.

Brown in 2 Tb butter

Add 3 finely diced carrots or a peeled and grated sweet potato

Add one large bunch of very finely sliced chard or spinach

Once the greens wilt add 2-4 cups of water and simmer til the veges are very tender.

Keeps in fridge for 5 days or freeze for up to three months.

Feed her the canned food 3 times a day to get her weight back up and her hunger sensors back on track.

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