What do you add to your dog's dry food, suggestions?

thanks for all your answers, I think I'll get some Wellness toppers that sounds like a winner to me and the canned pumpkin.  I always add warm water to her kibble to make sure she is getting enough to drink.  She is just a little dog.  She does eat well when I put a little topping on top though.

JackieG

Freedom

raw egg

Freedom

1/4 teaspoon of minced garlic,

 

Neither of these should be fed to dogs.  Eggs are fine if cooked. Egg whites contain avidin which depletes biotin.  There's also the risk of salmonella and E. coli. Cooking the eggs eliminates both these problems. 

Garlic is toxic to dogs. It's in the same family as onion and the amount needed to be considered toxic isn't known.  Google garlic toxicity in dogs. As more and more research is done on different human foods we're finding that not everything we eat is safe for our dogs.  I know that many people feed garlic, in different forms, but I've read enough to believe it's not something I want in my dogs' food or added as a seasoning.   Why take a chance?

Garlic is fine in small amounts - up to a quarter teaspoon minced for a 20 pound dog daily.   Good for the heart, repels parasites, extremely beneficial.  My vet gives it to her dogs as well.  Check out The Whole Pet Diet, by Andi Brown (found it at the library, liked it so much I bought a copy).  She lists lots of toppers, and has excellent recipes as well.

Dogs are not nearly as susecptible to salmonella and e.coli. as we are; they eat raw eggs in the wild, so if you know how fresh your eggs are, a raw one once a week is not going to present any issues at all.

My dog hates stuff added to his kibble. He wants it dry! He is weird. But once a day, for his skin and coat, I will put Lipiderm oil on the kibble. He looks at me as if he's been offended, but he'll eat it anyway.

Every now and then, he'll get a spoon full of yogurt... but only if it's to the side. God forbid I mix it in.

This is the dog who refused to eat Honest Kitchen because the texture weirded him out. He's not that picky, I swear! I don't cater to that kind of behavior, but I figure.. it's cheaper to not have to add anything at all!

 Good luck with your picky dog. I've used the Wellness meat topper things. They have a great selection of different meats, and dogs seem to like 'em.

 A note on the garlic... Yeah, it is toxic but like someone else said, not in small amounts. I don't feed it because I'm paranoid. And raw eggs.. Knew several dogs who ate raw eggs every day. Sure, there's salmonella, but that doesn't keep me from eating raw cookie dough.. Whoops! There IS a biotin reducing [insert scientific term here] in the egg whites, but the yolk neutralizes it. That's why you feed the whole egg.

 I put salmon oil, vit e, yogurt, eggs, and apple cider vinegar in my dogs food. Bentley doesnt get an egg though as it upsets his belly. He gets kelp added in his food as suggested by his breeder since I show him. I feed Taste of the Wild.

I've never had a picky dog.  But I think feeding nothing but kibble is horribly unhealthy.  So my dogs generally get plain kibble in the a.m. and always some "extras" with their kibble in the evening.  Sometimes that's canned dog food, but I generally try to make it healthy "people" food.  Boiled eggs or canned fish (salmon, mackeral, sardines, etc.) are favorites.  Plain yogurt or cottage cheese.  Any kind of leftover meat or veggies we have that are good for them.  Last night they had leftover baked chicken.

Myra

I've never had a picky dog.  But I think feeding nothing but kibble is horribly unhealthy. 

  I feel the same way; Jessie will eat dry kibble but since we wouldn't want to try to live on bagged or canned food our whole life, I don't think it's healthy for dogs either. Because of her food allergies and pancreatitis, she gets baked turkey breast on her breakfast and her supper, and a turkey/rice cooked mixture on her other 2 meals. She gets fish oil daily and 200 IU of vitamin E once a week.