We finally got our GSD puppy, Brenna! She's great and we love her. We're doing a raw food diet and feel really good about it after researching Ed/Cindy's info and buying Billinghurst's book from Leerburg. However, when I prepare her veggies/fruit and her raw meat serving she almost completely ignores the produce and chows down on the meat, of course...I've tried to feed her the veggies first and then give her the meat after she's finished but she'll only eat it when I'm standing there or sitting there with her and she constantly walks away from it begging me for the meat And she'll take forever in doing this--sometimes more than 20 minutes...the kennel owner told me that with her litter mates they would eat literally anything she put down--I chalk this up to competition...but now she has none. I've tried blending her veggies with liver treats, high grade omega oils, dehydrated chicken treats, some table grade puppy chow and nothing seems to really turn her on. Veggies and fruits include: apples, potatoes, cucumber, carrots, brocoli, bananas, celery...I chop and cook all the produce for 2 to 3 minutes and I've served it warm and cold. I've tried the last two days picking up her food and not feeding her meat serving until her next feeding and then reintroducing the produce and she still turns her nose up at it and whines, whines, whines like I'm starving her to death...anyone have any ideas? She devours her chicken wings/necks and turkey necks and she's feed once in the morning and once in the evening with a few treats and maybe one peanut butter filled kong in between for rewards. Thanks for your replies...btw, her mom is from the Kershental lines and her dad is out of Quanto. She's super inquisitive and learns very, very fast. She's a handful with good prey drive, will retrieve for 20-30 minutes enthusiastically, and has her nose in the ground while outside constantly. Her parents and grandparents were all working dogs either as herders or in police/SAR work, just some fyi stuff for those interested.

Hi Mike!

Congratulations! I wouldn't worry about it too much, as long as you feed her organ meats like liver. Also, a variety of meats, with some fish, eggs, cottage cheese/yogurt. My dog wasn't too keen on vegies in her bowl, but you can bet she begged to try the fruits or vegies I was eating during the day, ha, ha. When our dogs were teething, we gave them old carrots to munch on. If we had soup that night, the dogs also got some with their food. There should be a menu for a week in here somewhere, I'm sorry I don't have a link to it.

Good luck with the pup!

For me I only give veggies few times a week, not everyday.I do tripe and I had read that I did not have to do veggies everyday so I don't plus lately my time is so limited that as to get the veggies going I make them in puree and put it over their meat. But like I said I don't do it everyday.SOme people have a different view on that.As for your puppy I wouldn't skip giving her her meat if she doesn't eat her veggies, what texture is your veggie nix?
Are you talking about Quanto Jipo me? Her father?

http://s141.photobucket.com/albums/r77/cadogancna/

Man I really need to work those veggies into the diet.
Does back yard grass count as veggie?

Don't see why not, it's vegetable matter.

Congrats on your new puppy - saw her picture, she's beautiful!

Since I've had my pup, he's eaten veggies, but I always mix it with the meat (the meat is ground). Never have used potatoes though. Never have cooked or blanched the veggies, but I have ground them in the blender, pulverizing them, adding a little water for constitution. I don't feed veggies everyday however. Have heard some don't even give veggies all that much or at all. I think blending to a pulp works better for them than just chopping, cause you can disguise the veggies by mixing with the ground meat, it blends in really well and the meat hides the taste. At your dog's age, I used to put in a teaspoon or 2. I also think making a pulp out of the veggies (with water) is more like the state it would be found in the intestines of a herbivore and more easily digested by the pup.

Bananas - my pup eats anything, but the times I fed bananas he ate slowly and didn't wolf it down like everything else. So I don't feed it unless he's curious if I'm eating one.

And actually it's more natural than potatoes or a lot of the veggies we gave them , do you ever see a wolf look for potatoes?

Our little wolf pack dug up & feasted on all the carrots in the garden one year. Oops, that was the last time they were left in the backyard unsupervised.

thanks for all the replies...we do finely chop, nearly puree, the produce and I have mixed it with ground turkey before, but that's really expensive coming from the store and there's no bones She'd eat it that way but she was eating better than we were!!! That seems to be a recurring thought here, huh? lol...I've also given it to her steamed and raw, both...today she did better, I think, because she was just hungrier not eating as much yesterday...and yes, I do give her bananas, too...it appears she only eats the produce when she realizes "ok, this is it"...anyway, thanks for all the replies and thank you, Eva and Sandy.

btw, Angelique here's her pedigree line and I realized I mispelled her dam's line: Kirschental...sorry for those of you who might think I'm an idiot

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/para.utkoma?fadir=393879&modir=338772

Try chopping very finely your veg and mix it with raw eggs, olive oil,codliver oil,lots of garlic.
Also try mixing it with yogurt,cottage cheese