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Quoting from book:
Richard Pitcairn, DVM, Ph.D.
Complete Guide To Natural Health For Dogs & Cats

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When you have a finicky eater on your hands, first make sure you serve the food in an appealing manner. Rather than serving refrigerated food cold, warm it up a bit, which greatly increases aroma and appeal. Also, be sure to serve the food in a safe place, not in the middle of your path of movement around the kitchen. Beyond that, you can choose one of three strategies: Introduce new foods gradually until they're accepted, let your animal go without eating until it's hungry enough to try the new fare, or compromise with a combination of the natural diet and your pet's old favorites.

The gradual transition. This not only helps your pet get used to the taste of new foods but also gives the animal's digestive system time to adjust. Whenever the diet is changed abruplty, even from one commercial brand to another, temporary diarrhea or loss of appetite might occur. That's because the bacterial flora in the digestive is still adjusting to the new material. By switching over gradually, you can reduce or avoid acceptance problems and the possibility of discomfort for your pet. If the gradual method doesn't work, you probably have a food addict on your hands, and more drastic measures will be necessary.

Fasting for a few days. This stimulates a lagging appetite, helps cleanse the body, and deconditions old taste habits all at the same time. To fast, your pet needs a healthful setting--plenty of fresh air, quiet, access to the outdoors, and some moderate exercise.

Here's the process.

1. Begin the fast with a break-in period of one to two days. Feed a smaller quantity of the usual food during this first phase, perhaps adding a little meat, cooked grain, and / or vegetables.
2. Move to a liquid fast for the next two to three days. During that time give your animal only liquids, such as pure water, vegetable juices, and broths.
3. To break the fast, add some solid foods to the liquid regime over a day or two, perhaps vegetables (for dogs) or eggs, yogurt, or small amounts of fresh meat (for dogs and cats).
4. After a day or so, increase the amount of meat and add a grain, gradually adding other ingredient until the recipe is approximated; then add the supplements (often the least-accepted part of the diet, except for nutritional yeast, which many animals love).

In stubborn cases, it often pays to continue fasting the animal a few more days. One client reported worriedly that her cat wouldn't eat any of the natural foods offered in the "breaking-out" period. I advised her to keep the cat on liquids for awhile longer. She did, and in a few days she called back enthused to say that her formerly finicky cat was now eating all kinds of things it would never touch before--like vegetables, grains, meats, nutritional yeast, and even soy grits! In addition to the longer fast, she found it helped to mix a little bit of fish (an old favorite) into the new diet.






 

 
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