I've been feeding Summer Diamond Senior dry food and since Cleo's death she completely stopped eating the dry food alone. I've been adding Purina wet food because that is what she liked when Cleo had her teeth done and I needed to feed wet temporarily and Summer liked it too. I've been adding this to her wet food to get her appetite up but she is still turning her head to the dry food alone. Sooooo, since she is insistant on my adding in wet food seemingly permanantly I would like to get her on something quality. It's already been five weeks. I've tried the "Chicken soup" brand senior formula wet food but it is the ground up kind, very hard to mix in to the dry food and she seems to prefer the chunks and gravy wet food so the gravy mixes with the dry and she can eat the chunks. She would probably even be okay to do just a gravy mix with the wet. She has no real bad reactions to any types of meat so that shouldn't matter but I want something healthy and quality for her. Any suggestions?
Good wet food?
- Thread starter hbwright
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You may want to try the Natural Balance "Healthy Eatables" if your dog is picky and likes chunky canned. These actually smell divine and my dogs loved them. A real treat, but balanced for regular feeding.
http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/eatables/home.html
http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/eatables/home.html
Great, the Healthy Eatables are on sale this week at Petco. If it is very grave I won't have to use as much because I think she just likes the gravy mixed in. To think dry has been good enough for her all this time. I guess after almost 13 years and she's outlived all the rest she figures she deserves to be a little spoiled. (I agree.)
In older dogs, they start to lose their sense of smell a little, so that is why a lot of them prefer canned food over dry. Plus, it is easier for them if they have dental issues. I say spoil the old dogs! They deserve it! 
The Healthy Eatables are really great and very gravy-like. My dogs loved every flavor A LOT!
The Healthy Eatables are really great and very gravy-like. My dogs loved every flavor A LOT!
Funny thing is that she seems to have aged many years in the past 5 weeks since losing Cleo. She loved the wet food when it was a treat after Cleo's dental procedure but that was only for a short time and only because Cleo had to have it at the time. Other then that she never had a problem eating the dry, probably competition since they ate together. She refused to eat for 3 days before I finally got her some wet food (Purina) to give it a try. She still isn't eating a lot but much more then the nothing she started off with. She is getting her teeth cleaned in the next month so I do want to find something she really loves before then also and better nutrition then the Purina she's been eating and better then the ham slices that she seems to love so much.