I have a 15 week old staff, the diet sheet the breeder gave me was, weetabix for breakfast, pedigree chum puppy and pedigree chum complete.

He now won't eat the complete or the pedigree chum puppy on its  own so I have to mix it together and he barely touchs that. The only thing he seems to eat is weetabix or pedigree chum puppy with a tiny drop of milk.

I've mixed and tried all different combinations and he is justhardly touching his food. He is growing well and is in fine health but I worry that he isnt eatig enough.
Please someone tell me what to feed him!

Is he getting his new teeth through at all? Maybe the complete is hurting his gums - I would make sure he doesnt eat too much weetabix by the way

i havent noticed any change with his teeth as yet.....

Why can't he have weetabix??? The breeder had him on weetabix and all sorts.
I find it all really confusing.
I love my dog to bits and am really trying to do the best I can for him, I've bought book after book, spoken to the vet the breeder and everyone says different things.
I've been told to put him on chicken and rice, but the vet told me human food is for humans so not to feed him that???????

I just wish someone could say you should give him this ! and thats it. Im worried I might not be feeding him properly

Sorry but you'll get as many answers as there are posters about what to feed :-) I agree about getting him off the wheetabix and milk though and really one brand or method of feeding for all meals is fine for him and easier for you.

I raw feed myself but before I did I fed complete for years so it's up to you what you do. Nutro Burns and Autarky are complete foods that get good press here but there are lots of others that people feed very successfully.

Myself I'd go for one of the above in the meantime.

                                                  Hope this helps
                                                          Anne
                                        (See I didn't push raw :-D)

As a diabetic I am an avid label reader Weetabix is a ceral with added sugar meant for human comsumption

Dog food is designed for dogs & whatever brand suits your dog is the right one. If you want to feed raw then you need to reasearch the raw diet to make sure your puppy gets the right ingredients for a balanced diet

Non Bitch Milk is something lots of dogs are intolerant of

I would never give a puppy human food especially breakfast cereals which except for a couple are full of sugar-which can depress the apetite(theres the diabetic speaking)

So if your breeder fed your puppy on one brand I would stick tyo that & very gradually wean onto another diet once she is eating properly

Do not hand feed try a little & often if the puppy leaves any reduce the size of the meal.

JMHO of course

I hold my hands up to 30 years ago gives puppies human baby rusks soaked in water for breakfast but that was 30 years ago ;)

at 15weeks i would have pup off weetabix as he now needs meat meals to get good bone !! perhaps he is teething plus it has been very hot !!!

Get him off the weetabix and milk and stick to one food for all 3 meals.

well put tohme LOL

He is only having one weetabix for breakfast!! not for all 3 meals!!! even I wouldn't wan to eat that.

We give him kibble for lunch with a touch of milk to softern and pedigree chum puppy for dinner, he just never eats it all..

some breeders when weaning give 3 meat meals and one milk ( normally breakfast) just to help the process of weaning off mums milk easier....the kibble you are giving should be soaked in a little warm water if required although at 15 weeks the crunch to the kibble is good for his teeth ... I would never soak food in milk !! most dogs have bad reactions to milk as past threads have mentioned .... the advice here has been spot on pick a food and feed it for all the meals but make it consistant or you will end up with a fussy pup and grey hair :) :) :)

Thanks for your advice!

Im going to try and get him on pedigree complete and soak it with water.
If he doesn't touch it I will leave it out for 20 mins throw away and he will get nothing again till his next feed.

People have mentioned the bakers complete so maybe I should try and slowly introduce that.

I would avoid Bakers Complete if you can. It is full of colourings and additives which are as bad for dogs as they are people.

i AGREE ON THE BAKERS.....not good

Forget Bakers Complete, yes completely full of colourings, sugar and salt!

Burns complete dry, Naturediet complete wet, would be my first choice for commercial products.

The subject of food will be very confusing as there as many good foods on the market and many poorer foods too :rolleyes:
Find one food that you are happy with and that pup looks well on and stick to that-
everyone on this discussion probably feeds their dog something different but I bet all do well on it. If you try to search for "the BEST food" you will never find it .
Choose one good quality food and stay with it :)

Try and stay far,far away from  dog foods that you can buy from supermarkets,they are all pretty much inferior foods,that should narrow your choice down to a select few ;)

I dont know how any dog would want to eat the same food for 3 meals a day everyday,it wouldnt hurt to add some cooked chicken to one of them or some meat broth or yoghurt etc. to another.Some dogs turn picky when given too much variety,while others just get bored to death by the same food being fed for every single meal and soon lose interest,i cant say i blame them!

Eating is one of the greatest joys for dogs,it doesnt hurt to mix it up a little every now and then,make your dog WANT to get up to see what's in his bowl, today, rather than the same boring "PREDICTABLE"
meal day after day,year after year.

christine

Got home last ngiht after going to the vets and gave my pups Pedigree puppy complete with warm water and they mullered it!!! I've ordered a sample of burns so I will try them on this as a healthier option.
My vet has also recommended feeding the pups chicken with rice so that can be their little treat.

Thanks for everyones advice

Lisam, i picked my 8 week old puppy up in December, who was fed on 1 weetabix meal and 3 Eukanuba meals a day, but the breeder was changing the puppy she was keeping over to Bakers Complete instead of Eukanuba starting the next day, so being novices (and having not discovered Champdogs at this point ;-)) I decided to do the same.

Not suprisingly, we had a crazy lunatic puppy, who had me cowering in fear on the settee because of the evil glint in her eye and the ferouciousness with which she was launching herself at my feet!  We noticed she was always worse shortly after the Weetabix meal, and once we stopped that she started to calm down.  However, as we then started to change over to Bakers, she suddenly got worse.  After just a week of being on Bakers I knew - never again, and was having much worse effects than the Weetabix.  I could tell it must be full of sugar due to her hyperness and stopped it straight away.  Admittedly I changed to Pedigree Puppy which wasn't the best choice (I still wasn't a member of Champdogs!) but she calmed down almost immediately and the change in her was really noticeable.

Different dogs do better on different foods, and different foods suit different humans too (i.e. their pocket and convenience) and I wouldn't like to say you SHOULDN'T give your puppy Weetabix or Bakers Complete (I'll leave that to those who have posted above!), but I thought I would tell you my experiences and why i wouldn't feed either Weetabix of Bakers!

I introduced both my dogs to Burns now and they both absolutely love it, it doesnt have any rubbish in it and I must say that I have seen a dramatic change not only in eating habits and behaviour but also Ronnies coat is absolutely beautiful, its really shiny and soft!!
All Hail Burns!!! Super Dog Food!

Thanks to everyone who recommended this food my pups would shake you by the hand (Im sure) if they could

my dogue de bordeaux puppy is 13 weeks now and the breeder had her on pedigree puppy with milk, she was throwing up all over the place. I took her to the vets and he gave her Royal Canin vet food, (can you buy this in pet shops)? She was great on this tinned food but it isnt very conveinent. I then changed her to Bakers Complete and she had the runs and now looks so thin. I put her back on vet food after another visit to there. can anybody suggest anything i can feed her on that will not just end up as the runs or vomit. she is a really lovely puppy and im trying to do everything i can but im at my wits end she just gets worse.

Hi

I've now got my puppies on burns dry with chicken, they thrive on it, their coats are beautiful and shiney and the squirts have completely cleared up and both a doing great poos!!!

The vet suggested bland food, such as rice, fish and chicken mixed with a complete food so they still get their vitamins.