# Foods Your Dog Will NOT Eat **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817 "2008-12-05T04:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/21 "2008-12-05T15:32:23Z")
I have two beagles. The older older one will not eat popcorn and is spooked by jello. The younger one will eat anything, and I do mean ANYTHING. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/22 "2008-12-05T16:10:34Z")
So far, raw broccoli is the only thing Clover doesn’t like. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/23 "2008-12-05T16:11:36Z")
Ladybug would NOT eat tomato. You could give her an assembled burger and she’d disassemble it, very carefully, in layers. She’d then eat each individual layer except the tomato and lettuce. Jasmine doesn’t much care for them either, but she’s not as delicate with her teeth as Ladybug was. OOOoh, and my grandparents’ wire-hair dachsund would eat anything except pickles or okra! You’d swear dogs couldn’t spit, but if you gave him either of those, they’d end up \*appearing \*to have been spit far away, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/24 "2008-12-05T16:11:37Z")
Many, many years ago when I was a kid the family had a poodle that wouldn’t eat peas. We’d buy the canned dog food “stew” variety that had peas in it and she’d manage to eat everything but the peas. My current dog won’t eat lettuce. She will lick it if it has dressing on it but she won’t eat it. I’ve also given her the canned dog “stew” a couple times and she also manages to leave a few peas but she does eat some of them. She doesn’t like olives either. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/25 "2008-12-05T16:41:32Z")
My parents had an Australian Shepherd named Pepper. Pepper would eat–via apparent inhalation–a variety of things but there were a couple of things he was very particular about. One–chicken or turkey had to be cooked. He would NOT eat it raw–if Mom skinned the chicken before cooking it, she had to boil the skins before Pepper would eat them. This came in handy when the neighbors accused him of killing and eating their flock of turkeys. Two–he would eat leftover pancakes ONLY if they had syrup on them. If you gave him plain ones, he’d just look at them and them at you, as if to say, “Well? Didn’t you forget something?” (On a side note, I remember them telling me about the time Pepper had parvo and they were trying to slip him his meds in food. They couldn’t fool him–he would eat everything EXCEPT the portion containing the pill. They even tried pancakes and syrup, but found one bite left on the porch, with the pill still intact. They finally had to hold him down and push the meds down his neck!) ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/26 "2008-12-05T17:45:59Z")
We had a poodle that couldn’t handle dog food and so lived for 16 years on a diet of people food only. She was another one who could eat a whole bowl of beef stew and leave only a small pile of potato cubes, licked clean of any gravy. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/27 "2008-12-05T17:57:05Z")
My beagles will not eat veggies, none ,no carrots or potatoes or fruits. It is a meat, can food and dry food world for them. Then they have to sniff everything they eat. Even if they have been eating it, they stop to sniff. Yet they rarely go to the park without finding something edible. It can be dug out of a snow pile and be green and brown and so ugly. That is food. ---
**Author:** ![Ducktail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Ducktail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ducktail)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/28 "2008-12-05T17:59:48Z")
Mine have no interest in grapes or carrots. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/29 "2008-12-05T18:15:13Z")
I’m glad to see that other people’s dogs won’t eat normally-tasty things w/o some sort of “condiment” – although **Chanteuse** ’s dog not eating pancakes is especially weird!! Dolly won’t eat unsalted nuts, but she won’t eat olives either (which are salty!) She also won’t eat lettuce, but her little cousin dog loves “spines” from romaine lettuce. She wont’ eat oranges unless I take a bite first and give it to her. She doesn’t quite know what to do with WHOLE apples. She just sort of plays with them. But if I take a bite out of it first and show her how to “get started” she understands. She does like veggies, though. She has a can of unsalted green beans every night. I’ve also given her un-sweetened canned pumpkin. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/30 "2008-12-05T18:48:29Z")
Unsalted canned green beans and pumpkin are \*great \*diet food for dogs! Most of them like it very much. Don’t overdo, though, QQQQ ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/31 "2008-12-05T19:17:57Z")
A radish. I dropped a whole one when prepping a salad. Daisy zoomed in and snatched it, only to return minutes later and SPIT IT OUT at my feet. Then she gave me a _look_. ---
**Author:** ![sherrylynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@sherrylynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sherrylynn)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/32 "2008-12-05T19:33:06Z")
My boxer will NOT eat french fries until your entire burger is gone. Then, he’ll help you eat the fries. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/33 "2008-12-05T19:35:03Z")
[quote=“Dolores\_Reborn, post:16, topic:475817”] None of my three dogs will eat grapes, even if they’re cut in half. [QUOTE] Ours won’t either. They’ll bounce them around and play with them until they’ve made a nice smushy mess out of them, but eat grapes they will not. ---
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/34 "2008-12-05T19:41:26Z")
The only thing we’ve found that Zoe won’t eat is those pepper that come in Olive Garden salads and Papa John’s pizzas. Which is weird, because she likes every other kind of pepper we’ve given her, including jalapenos. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/35 "2008-12-05T20:13:52Z")
> [@Katriona](#): > > Ours won’t either. They’ll bounce them around and play with them until they’ve made a nice smushy mess out of them, but eat grapes they will not. My dog won’t eat grapes either. But I found out this summer that she will grab them off the grape vine, chew them and spit them out anyway - just for fun I suppose? ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/36 "2008-12-05T20:24:50Z")
I have had exactly one dog that would eat oranges (only if pre-peeled). He quite liked them. The rest of the dogs thought he was nuts. Other than that, there are very few foods that were outright rejected, and none consistently across multiple dogs, although we’ve had our share of picky eaters (including a male Saluki who had to carefully consider any proffered tidbit for several moments, even roast chicken!). JRB ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/37 "2008-12-05T20:55:04Z")
> [@Ducktail](#): > > Mine have no interest in grapes or carrots. Good, I’ve been told grapes can hurt a dog. [Are Raisins and Grapes Toxic to Dogs? | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/raisins.asp) first cite I found. Mine will eat anything unless I put a pill in it, to the point of licking all the cream cheese off until the pill is left. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/38 "2008-12-05T21:05:52Z")
Our dog will eat anything and I’m even convinced that the chocolate being poison thing is a myth. Our dog ate a 5 pound chocolate bar - I don’t even think he threw up afterword. It’s been about 10 years since so i don’t think it had any effect at all. He hates Cool Ranch Doritos though…won’t go near the things. He loves toast - it’s probably all the butter I put on it. (we have an English Springer Spaniel) ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/39 "2008-12-05T22:29:11Z")
Neither the previous nor current border collie like grapes. But I can see that I am happy about that now. The current model won’t eat carrots, but teh last one loved them. The last dog would actually chew gum. Not just swallow it immediately like the new dog. Not that I give them gum, but I’ve got kids. ---
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817/40 "2008-12-05T22:44:40Z")
For whatever reason, Misty, our beagle, will eat everything but her own dry dog food(she will even eat dry CAT food)… including spitting out the “crunchies” we mix with the wet food. We have tried several brands and flavors, she just doesnt like dry dog food [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-your-dog-will-not-eat/475817.md?page=3)