My one min pin is crazy. He doesn't like to eat his food, especially the hard stuff. At first he wouldn't eat it unless you dumped it on the ground and then he thought it was a toy that he could pounce on. Now we have tried adding water to his food and even soft food. He just skips over the dry food the silly little guy, but too much wet food makes him sick too. What to do with crazy dogs that don't like to eat?

Monroe does that from time to time. I don't know how old your dog is, but she seemed to do it a lot when she was losing her teeth and the new ones were coming in. We had to make it into a game and roll her food across the floor for her to pounce like you said and also wetting it to make it softer. We tried leading her back to her bowl though by putting it on the ground like she wanted it and then make a trail on the ground back to the bowl to try to trick her into eating from there. I dont know what it is, or why they don't eat sometimes, but we had to turn it into a game until she went back to eating it normally

Our trainer told someone else in our class that was having a similar problem to just give them tough love. Put down the food, leave it for 15-20 minutes, if they don't eat, pick it up and give it to them again in the evening and make it a schedule to feed them only twice a day. Eventually he's going to be hungry enough to eat it from the bowl without playing.

The problem I heard with tough love is that it can be dangerous for a min pin not to eat for a long time, and our lil guy will do just that. We have tried everything, but wetting his food seems to work. For a while there he was skin and bones and not eating was not an option for him in our minds. We finally have him eating his food moistened but none the less.

You say he doesn't like soft food? He'll eat hard food, if he gets to play with it first?

How old?

If he isn't eating hard food at all, I'd say get his teeth checked, to make sure there wasn't an issue there. But if he just doesn't seem to be interested, you might try adding a little something for flavor.

A little fish oil might help (won't hurt his coat any either). Or mix just a tiny dab of peanut butter in with it, see what happens.