Liver, liver, liver

[kathylcsw]

Why is liver so hard?? It has been a struggle to get Lola to eat it at all! I am slowly introducing but she is not making it easy! I finally got her to eat a tiny bit twice last week by mixing them in with other meat. The first 2 times I got her to eat it I put Parmesan cheese on it but last week she ate it without anything. Last night I added some to her dinner and she just ate around it. My son reminded me that parmesan cheese had worked before and she did eat it after I added that to it. Will she ever get to where she will eat it by itself? I plan to keep slowly working up to 5%-10% to avoid poop issues. Next week I will add it to 3 meals and do that for 2 weeks.

If I can't find other organs can liver be the entire 10%? I have searched stores here and there are no other organs anywhere. I am working to find them but may have to rely primarily on liver. Will that be ok and meet their nutritional needs?

When do I start adding liver to Buster's diet? He is 3 months old and has been eating raw since I brought him home the week of Christmas. So far he is eating chicken, turkey, and pork without issue. I also have a ton of venison that I want to add to his diet so I should I do venison next or liver? He is so food crazy that I feel pretty confident that he won't have any issues eating liver.

[naturalfeddogs]

I wouldn't add anything to try to get them to eat it. You can try to feed it frozen, or even slighty seared to start, then as they are eating it more back off the searing. Sometimes though, they just don't like it no matter what you do. In that case, you may need to "shove" it to get them to eat it. I have had to put it at the very back of the throat and hold their head up and make them swallow. I was doing that to one of ours, Aussie and all of a sudden he just started eating it on his own. I guess he got tired of it being shoved and decided to go it on his own.

[xellil]

I agree - try it frozen.

Snorkels, my dog who loves everything, hated kidney at first. She would pick it out and put it in a semicircle around the outside of her bowl on the floor. I kept giving it to her like that because I found it endlessly amusing to watch her do that.

One day, she just started eating it and now she loves it. But I lost my foodly entertainment each day.

[MollyWoppy]

You are lucky! Seriously, I think Lola actually eating the liver, whether it's disguised in something else, or even by itself is a huge step forward. If she's prepared to do that, she'll be eating it just fine really soon.

Mol detests liver with a capital D. To the point of being facetious. She got 1/2 a cornish hen last week, I was walking round later and stepped on something. It was the tinest piece of liver imaginable which she had spat out from the cornish hen.
So, she gets force fed her organs, pain in the butt.

[Herzo]

It's not hard for me my dogs all love it. I always think it's strange when I hear that peoples dogs don't like it. Even my last bassets loved it. I hope feeding mostly liver is ok cause that's what I can get most of. I do use different liver though, turkey, beef, lamb, pork and deer. The kidney is kind of stinky but I have fed it and need to again.

[DaneMama]

We simply got tired of trying to trick the dogs to eat their organs...finally said screw it and just started shoving organ meat down throats. We still have to do it with only 2 dogs now.

I have found that the more naturally raised organs ALL my dogs will gladly eat. Like the organs from an animal we butcher ourselves.

[twoisplenty]

Wow, we have never had any issues with feeding organ meats. Now fresh whole fish is a different story, lol.

[whiteleo]

The dogs did have issue with chicken liver but that was from the store, every organ they get is from grass fed/ naturally raised animals so maybe that's the difference, they happily eat all the organs I feed them with no problems.

[Herzo]

Maybe that is it all my liver with the exception of the turkey comes from the meat plant where people get there own animals slaughtered. Could be a difference in it hummmmmmmmmmmmm that's a thought.

[trikerdon]

Sheba just started eating a little liver mixed in with her meats. How much do you feed yours each week? How big are the servings?