Hi, I post this on behalf of my mum (who is not computer minded)!!
She has yesterday taken in a 4 year old CKCS. He has not eaten anything in the 24 hours he has been with her.
Drinking water ok and is weeing and has had a normal poo.
I said it's probably because he has had his whole routine turned upside down and has not got a clue what is going on.
He is on a dry food feeding routine which the kennels said he has been on since he has been with them (4 days).
Any advice or suggestions.........
Thanks

As long as he's drinking there's nothing too much to worry about. :) Even baby puppies often go off their food when they change home, and adult dogs - especially of such a manipulative breed as CKCS - can be even worse! Tall your mum to make sure she offers him the same food (if good quality dog food) as he's been eating before (what was he being fed before the kennels had him?) twice a day, leaving it down for 15 minutes, then taking it away. If he's eaten it before, he'll eat it when he's hungry. Adult dogs can go for over a week without food without coming to any harm, despite what we might think. ;) The worst thing she can do is start offering him little titbits of extra tasty food or he'll be ruling the roost for life!

What brand food is he on? There are other causes of dogs not eating other than fussines.The food he was on could be giving him a dicky tummy,or making him feel unwell in some way,if a dog has a bad experience with a food once they usually wont want to eat it again.Just because he ate in the "kennel(are they positive of this?)environment" doesnt mean he's automatically going to eat in a quiet home.

He is on Bakers?
My friend suggested putting a little warm water over it and maybe adding some fresh chicken to encourage him to eat?
I have a ckcs pup who loves food but am still learning with him.
This morning she offered him some tin food, but he had a mouthful and turned away. So that is now in the bin.
Time factor probably...........he is a lovely chap in all aspects, just does'nt want to eat.

Change to another food.  I would not feed Bakers to my dogs.

Hi maisiemum.....do you have any recommendations.
Tonight mum fed him some Iams with pieces of fresh chicken with a little warm water, and he gobbled the lot up. Both mum & dog were smiling !
I have told her to stay on dry food and NOT to go with tins.
Don't want to get in a debate about tins v dried food but so many people have recommended dried to her and me with pup.
Thanks everyone

Bakers:


Ingredients
Cereals, Meat and animal derivatives (minimum 4% chicken beef and minimum 4% fresh meat in the soft moist kernel), Vegetable protein extracts, Derivatives of vegetable origin (1.1% charcoal in the dark brown kernel), Oils and fats, Various sugars, Minerals, Yeasts, Vegetables (minimum 4% vegetables in the green kernel). Contains EC permitted colourants, antioxidants and preservatives.

Firstly this food starts with cereals,of which could be anything,it then boasts a whole 8% meat WOW :rolleyes: ,i think the rest of the ingredients are self explanatory,particularly the "various sugars".I can not see one healthful ingredient in the whole list :(

Please Bluebell,if anyone recommends this food then they must not have even a basic understanding of canine nutrition,just remember that ;)

Some foods i can recommend:

Timberwolforganics- http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/dogs/dry_dog_food/timberwolf

Ardengrange- http://www.ardengrange.com

JWB- http://www.wellbeloved.co.uk

Pro plan and royal canin are ok foods also.But take a look at the ingredients of the first food i linked before comparing ingredients :)

Dried: JWB or Burns, easily available in the UK and can get by post.
Wet: Naturediet.

All the above are as natural as it is practically possible to be free from unecessary additives, emulsifiers, preservatives etc and not expensive.

NB Naturediet is not the same as tinned food being cooked and vacuum packed.

HTH

If you can, obtain samples of either JWB or Burns if this is the route you chose to go down before buying a bag.  None of my dogs can tolerate either diet and have great big large cow poo pats on them.

Also remember to give a food at least 6 weeks to see if it suits your dogs or not,unless ofcourse he has obvious sickness etc. Too many people will stop feeding a food far too soon because their dogs get an upset tum and or dire rear,which is always almost due to the food change rather than the food. :)

Christine is quite correct obviously no ONE food will suit EVERY dog, that is why there are so many.  Generally speaking it is not the BRAND that is at fault but one of the ingredients, hence if you change brands you need to look at the components otherwise it is generally pointless changing.

Whatever you change to do it gradually. I think there's nothing worse than continually trying one food after another, as that seems guaranteed to upset a dog's digestion.
I'm surprised at comments about big poos on Burns as we find the opposite - when we've tried other foods she goes more often, and on Burns they're small and firm (and easily pickupable!)
You just have to find a food that suits your dog. We had a collie on cheap and cheerful flake food many years ago and he was ok, though not great condition - but then I was uninformed about food ingredients and thought that was the norm.
I'm convinced that higher protein and fat foods are not so good - Purina did some research a while ago apparently and found that dogs lived healthier lives and longer on a lower protein diet (animal experimentation of course!) and changed their recipes accordingly so maybe JWB and Burns have been right all along.

Protein levels are rather meaningless unless you have access to more information that is on the label.  Food labels only tell you the protein content overall, however dogs do not have a nutritional need for a particular percentage of protein, only particular amino acids.  Unless you know what percentage is complete v incomplete, the quality, and how bio available it is to your dog then choosing a food by protein content on the label is basically a waste of time.

Fat is required to give dogs energy, as dogs have no specific needs for carbohydrates, the former is where they need to get sufficient for the level of activity of the individual.

I cannot eat stuffed vine leaves, does not mean they are not perfectly nutritious and digestible for many people, just not for me.  The same is true of dogs.