My girl is coming up for the 7 week mark. This week she has changed completely. So much so i took her to the vets yesterday for piece of mind. She is very big although the vet was confident she isnt carrying any excess weight. She seems so sad, no spring in her step, is obsessed with me, wont even let anyone else let her in the garden. As well as that she is food crazy but i cant get her to eat. Despite increasing her food last week the most i can get her to eat today is a sausage, she just walks away from her usual dry food. The vet said on the scan there were multiple puppies and quite a big litter for her breed but even so i just want to make her as comfortable as possible as she has 2 weeks left! She is still happy to come on a walk and that is the only thing that seems to cheer her up..........
Perhaps i am worrying unneccersarily but any advice on this gratefully received. ( i have been pregnant so do remember the later stages but i smiled!!!). :)

My bitch is also at the 7 week stage, and is also not eating :-D I have tried everything from left over mince to sardines, to rice pudding. All she ate was the mince. Today I asked my son to collect some frozen uncooked dog mince (chicken) from Pets at Home. She wolfed it down ;-) hurray :-D :-D I found something she will eat. ;-) She did this with her last litter and had 9 puppies so I'm not too worried, but it is a pain when you know they should be eating :-D Little and often is the way to go for the last 2 weeks. The tummy just can't hold a huge amount of food.

Oh, forgot to add: she is also much more clingy thatn normal, and is growling at the other dogs if they get too close, unless she decides she wants to play ;-) She sat in the whelping box today and just looked at me :-D Then she came out and hasn't been back in it since ;-)

Thanks for that Lindylou, she has never eaten anything other than Royalcanin and the odd pigs ear but seems these are "special circumstances"! She had her first sausage this morning and having just checked to see she has eaten nothing else since i have given in and given her a pigs ear which she has wolfed down. It is such a turn of events as last week she couldnt get enough food and was a complete scavenger!
Well it seems she gets what for the next couple of weeks. i am always worried about her gaining fat being a small breed but for now that is not a concern.

When a bitch is pregnant she seems to want a more natural diet, or at least mine always have ;-) The mince (and/or chunks) from Pets at Home are good things to get them eating again. I usually mix it in with the normal food to try to get them to eat anything :-) Most of the time it works. The mince has minced bone as well as meat, so she will get the calcium intake as well. Scrambled eggs sometimes gets them to eat, but my bitch doesn't like them :-(

Pigs ears don't actually have that much nutrition so I wouldn't feed too many :-)

I did have one bitch that hardly ate for the last 2 weeks and had 13 pups (large breed ;-) ) but she was very skinny after having the pups. I actually turned to the vet at the time (she had a caesarian in the end) and said to him "Just as well you know me, or I'd be reported to the SSPCA ;-) "

All but 1 of my Pug girls goes off their usual diets completley,  and wants a much more home cooked diet!  Bunty, for the last 3 weeks of her pregnancy had chicken breast, lambs liver and a little white fish, supplemented by Puppy Eukanuba, and lots of goats milk and natural yoghurt.  IF she is looking realy big then several very small tasty meals better than jsut a couple of big ones.

Thanks for that, i best get my chefs hat on then!
I am starting her on Royal Canin Starter tomorrow (waiting for the vets to get it in). So mix with some scrambled eggs and chicken breast then?
Gwen did your Bunty look so sad???? She has always been clingy but just stares at me with "what did you do to me!" eyes. :(

I have a recently whelped bitch to and she went of her food first two weeks and last two weeks.  All she would eat in the end was Royal Canin Junior, I had taken her off this food months before but she obviously likes it, and she got through the pregnancy although whelped 5 days early 6 puppies.  All fit and well although she looked very thin.  First week after whelping she didn't want to eat either but now back on Royal Canin and enjoying it so I will be sticking with it for a while.

Edited to say - she even went of chicken breast and that is a first.  The stare is quite common its more a don't go and leave me alone look rather than look what you did.  Chin up it will all be worth it in the end.