hello all can you share your advice please........
as im sure you all know i have 2 staffs. both now fed on Nutro and chicken wings. they are feeding well. Its kenza (taz' daughter who my mum has) thats the problem. She is very much the fussy pup. :P
She started life on scrambled egg and bakers complete puppy. When she went to live with mum she continued this for a few days then refused to eat it.
Mum gave her ped chum - this gave her the runs terrible.
she tried nutro - she ate this once then turned her nose up and refused
she tried hi - life - much the same one day and then refused
she's tried bakers puppy,asda hero complete,asda tinned,bakers meaty chunky.......... all the same, she turns up her nose after she's eaten it once. She even refuses to eat mince - which i had not heard of before a dog refusing mince!!! :)
she will take something from your hand but not her bowl.
mum is getting quite worried, she has taken to giving her chicken and obviously when she can get chicken she ain't gonna want dog food ;)
but mum said if she was older she would hold out for onger but because she is a puppy she is worried about her not eating, she's putting on weight fine she's 14 weeks now and weighs 1 stone 6 pounds!!!! She has ox's tongue sometimes.
Mum has tried everything, even putting down the same food at different intervals of the day wihout any treats all day but by the end of the day she still won't touch it. Taz was a fussy eater but not that bad. and bailey, well he's just a disposal unit!!

Any ideas would be gladly recieved thanx in advance xx

Me personally I would put down your choice of food for (I free feed and take it you schedule feed) about what 20 min and if Kenza doesn't eat it in that time pick up and try again later, do this 4 times a day...If she still doesn't eat do it again the next day...She will soon learn that is all she is gonna get to eat and will eat it, it may take a day or 2 but she will eat....I wouldn't let it go more then 3 days but thats me parinoid...A dog will not starve themselves they will eventually eat...It sounds to me like Kenza know's that she will be getting something better all the time so she will not touch her food, so your mom is allowing her to be picky since she taught her it was ok. While you are doing this make sure you do not feed her anything else at all except her own food at feeding times :)

good luck :)

SHe is 14 weeks old now you say?  When did you get her?  If we assume you got her at 7 weeks then she has had, in this short space of time, no less than 11 differing foods including the mince and chicken wings?  When people say they have tried "everything" and nothing works it generally means that they have never tried "anything" for long enough.  Which I would respectfully suggest is the case here :D

Dogs do not starve themselves to death, they are opportunists, scavengers, animals that like eating animal excrement and putrefying flesh! :D

I don't feed commercial food, however I would choose a food that I was comfortable with in terms of content, nutrition, etc such as Burns or Naturediet, place in front of dog and if not consumed within 10 minutes remove it until the next meal time giving NOTHING in between.  She will soon catch on!  Dogs are like children, they know that by refusing to eat it can, in those susceptible, create LOADS of attention AND something nicer may pop up at the next meal time :D

She is obviously getting nourishment from somewhere as she is putting on weight, so why worry?  You mum is just teaching your dog to be picky.  I have never had picky dogs or children, they knew that what was put in front of them was all they were going to get; they always had a choice mind you .......... eat it or leave it :D

Your pup will eventually eat, as said in another reply they(dogs) wont starve themselves.  But remember if you are gonna change diets do it gradually e.g mostly old diet with a bit of new diet and increase it daily
till you are feeding all new diet ( should be over a period of about 5 days)
if you don't do that you can cause tummy upsets eg diarrhea.

thanx for your replies.....................
kenza was 5.5 weeks when mum has her - problem with bitches owners.
i know it seems like alot of foods to try, but they are introduced gradually, and some of them she just turned her noseup at and wouldn't touch. mum doesn't want to leave her longer than 1 day without eating cuz of nutrients etc with her being so young.
tried leaving it for 15 minuites and then moving it and not treating her all day and putting samr food down next feed - but she wont touch it.

my 15 week old shepherd gave me the same problem yesterday,
she didn't eat breakfast, nor lunch.
she was excited both times, until she saw the food, and then didn't touch it,
when I tested her with a liver treat she gobbled it up, and I checked her teeth
and gums, nothing wrong there, figured she's fussy, removed the food after a few minutes,
and by supper time she was eating, I offered her a late supper as well to compensate for
the 2 meals missed, and she ate most of it, around 2 or 3 am she woke me, apparently for food,
or possibly just attention, who knows what she really wanted, because when I took her outside
to do her business, she did nothing, but continued to tap her tail on my bedroom door
most of the night(thats how she gets us to let her out at night ;) ),
whenever I went to check she'd start licking me all over, I try to avoid
giving her too much love at those hours, I can't have her waking me in the middle of
the night for love. we let them sleep indoors now, had a scare recently after someone told
us about dogs getting sprayed in the eyes with all sorts of stuff.
anyway, by the time I served breakfast, she must have been starving, because I fed a bit more
than usual and she ate all of it, without too much walking around inbetween.

Really puppies can go several days without eating with no problem as long as they are drinking.  Think about what you do with babies when they have tummy troubles; they get fed nothing but a mixture of salt, sugar and water.  All this panicking about not eating is only storing up trouble for the future.  She is obviously getting some food from somewhere otherwise she would not be putting on weight! :)