Puppy gone off his kibble

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We have a 12 week old lab, we’ve been feeding him 3 times a day on the same kibble as the breeder ( St Johns puppy food ).
We brought him home at 9 weeks old and he would wolf it down and cry for it when he was hungry , however the last few days he has totally lost interest. He’ll eat about a third of it and then walk off, goes back occasionally to see if anything better is in his bowl, and will reluctantly eat a bit more.
Yesterday we had a roast and as he’d not touched his dinner at all, I poured some left over gravy and peas on over it and he ate the lot!
Is he just bored of boring dried kibble?
He is totally fine in himself, so I don’t think he’s poorly or lost his appetite.
I thought labs were supposed to eat anything?
I tried soaking his kibble today ( just in water ) and he didn’t seem impressed with that either?
Can anyone recommend a different type of food to start feeding him please?

Could be that he's teething and it hurts to eat dry food. Try him on wet puppy food for a few days. If that doesn't work get him to a vet.

I think kibble on its own is very boring for them. I try to mix in different wet foods, I use mince and chicken wings raw, and I add in a raw egg occasionally.

My pup loves peas and broccoli too.

Mix it up a bit - have you tried tinned sardines? Cheap and easy. Get the ones in oil but drain the oil away before adding it to a bit of softened kibble.

Good luck!

To compare general brands try allaboutdogfood.co.uk

My dog can't digest kibble very well but before we found that out we noticed he would go off kibble a lot.

If you think about it kibble can't be very interesting for a dog that has a great sense of smell. I feed my dog wet food now with a few bits of kibble for crunch. You can get good quality wet food and it's more smelly so I think some dogs prefer it over kibble.

We had a similar problem....soaking kibble in hot water then adding the meat helped. Makes it a bit smellier!

Our dog has kibble for breakfast and kibble and wet food for tea , he recently stopped being interested in his breakfast so I just stick a bit of grated cheese on it and that seems to make it a lot more appetising .

My dog was the same. He now has a mix of wet, kibble and chicken.

Thank you for the replies. Yesterday I mixed some grated cheese into the kibble and today for breakfast I added scrambled egg and he ate both.
I’ll also go into town and get some wet puppy food and see how he gets on with that.

Pets at Home own brand, Wainwright’s trays. You don’t need puppy food-compare the ingredients! They’re virtually identical, it’s a marketing myth for the most part.