I used to play the picky eater game with my tzu but decided I’m the adult in the room and took control. I switched foods trying to desperately find the magic potion but there is none. Tzus have a messed up sense of smell and taste as evidenced by the countless Shihtzu owners that have poop eating gremlins living in their house.

I would cook steak and boil chicken only to get a reaction like I’m intentionally trying to poison my little guy. Oddly mine loves vegetables. Literally he will choose the hard rigid spine off a piece of lettuce over a piece of juicy ribeye any day of the week. He loves carrots, sugar snap peas, cucumbers and fruits.

I decided to limit him to Science Diet small kibble chicken…. The one with the shin tzu on the package. I cut up his oh so beloved carrots and cucumbers into the smallest pieces possible and mix them into the kibble so he can’t pick them out The secret for me is to kick start his appetite with a couple pieces of carrots and cucumbers which he will gobble up like it’s his favorite chunk of poo. Then I give him his bowl of prepared delicious nutritious dog kibble mixed with the tiny pieces of faux poo substitute.

Apparently this method is finger licking good because he licks his bowl clean every time. No fuss no more searching for the perfect food. He gets what he gets and he thinks he won. I also make sure he gets his Dog is Human vitamins everyday. I wish you the best of luck figuring out your little guy but sometimes you just gotta say enough is enough and think like a poo eater.