Breakfast ideas for greyhounds

[Modwolvesrock]

We have two greys, ex racers.

So far both have been happily eating scrambled eggs and a ramekin of plain goat yogurt for breakfast every morning. Until recently....

The past couple of weeks you'd think our little girl had asked for a pony and got socks

Any ideas for tasty, healthy hound breakfasts I would be able to rustle up in 10 minutes or less?

Get her working for her food. The more fun the food becomes the more likely she is to enjoy it.

Ditch the bowl and play some simple chase the food games.

You can do this with scrambled egg or put the yogurt onto a licky mat for her.

Get her a good quality dog food that you are happy with and use that for treat training rather then from a bowl.

Some type of fish in oil?

PollyRoulson, thank you! I can't believe that didn't occur to me, she's such a playful girl. Time for breakfast time to become fun

Soubriquet, she sometimes has oily fish mixed with her kibble at lunch or tea. Usually buy tinned mackerel in oil, which goes down well once or twice a week.

Actually, that has given me an idea - cook a little fresh salmon with the scrambles! I think we probably spoil our dogs to make up for their racing life before we adopted them.

Thank you so much for the replies, I seem to spend half my life worrying about our hounds!

My MIL has a retired racer who's very fussy (apart from for sardines...) And he has this disgusting meaty chum log thing when he's going through a phase of refusing all the lovely proper food she offers him. I'll ask her what it is but if he stops eating that she takes him to the vets as it's apparently the tastiest thing in the world even though it just looks like a giant tube of pate.

Sardines works for a our lurcher no matter her mood. I give her them when we are in a hurry and need to get out. Otherwise she likes to ponder every.single.biscuit.
Our girl doesn't like Weetabix which my old dogs always ate, but by the methods she will go to steal crunchy but cornflakes, she's got more exotic tastes. Obviously she isn't given those as a menu option!!
I find variety is key. Too many repeats and it falls out of favour.

? Dog food is fine surely. I just put down more food when ddog has an empty bowl, he's perfect weight at 10 so must work fine . I use a high quality working dog dry

I think your hounds breakfast is better than my own
My ex-racers were quite spoilt at their kennels, they had like a stew & raw meat added to kibble and when we visited our girl she was being fed black pudding by racing owners, she was total princess as they regularly visited so would jump up for cuddles and sit on your lap she'd been retired from racing about 18mths before and was so fat.

My lurcher likes rooting around for kibble in a cardboard box with all the packing paper and empty loo rolls that she can then rip up. My mutt dog had a kong wobbler he liked to whack with a paw to dispense food. Wet/puree food or yoghurt on licky mats always keeps them busy.

@gogohm

? Dog food is fine surely. I just put down more food when ddog has an empty bowl, he's perfect weight at 10 so must work fine . I use a high quality working dog dry

Only works if you don't have a fussy dog! Ddog will quite happily starve herself for several days if the food isn't quite to her liking. I bought her some special edition sardine, haddock and broccoli forthglade recently. Bought 24 packs because she loves everything on that list (especially broccoli). After 48 hours of refusing to eat I've given up and got rid - thankfully to someone else who has less fussy hounds.

My grey was not food motivated at all. She would look at you like you were something nasty she stood in if you tried to play with her food with her. We had her from a puppy- puppy training class was an UTTER fail because no way was she doing tricks for snacks.

She would steal food though, just for the devilry of it. She was never happier than when she'd managed to scamper to the end of the garden with a full tub of butter. Maybe make it look like the breakfast really isn't for her and it would be very inconvenient if she ate it.

The only thing she really liked a lot was liver cake. You can get recipes online. Smells god awful when you cook it though.

Lots more replies, thank you!!!

Both our dogs eat sensitive stomach kibble, which they'd never eat without being topped with chicken/turkey/beef steak mince/salmon/lamb or tinned mackerel.

As a real change I'm going to try weetabix with goat milk for breakfast, just one day a week.

They'll either love it or decide the scrambles and yoghurt aren't so rubbish after all

Our hound has natural yogurt and oats mixed with his kibble, he loves it. Any ti need fish is always a hit, mingled with kibble, some grated cheese too.