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My daughter's CKCS 4 1/2 months old puppy is refusing to eat her food. She was on Pedigree chum puppy food and mixer when she got her and she weaned her on to Burns mini bites She never really liked the Burns,just took a couple of mouthfuls at a time and wasn't gaining weight. She loooked all"clapped in" at the back. So she bought a crate of Nature diet puppy and for the first couple of days she ate that,although not very enthusiastically.Now she will only eat it if there is a bit of chicken or sausage or other "human" food in it and she is at her wits end.She is always"starving" and manages to get pieces of food etc that her two little boys are eating,despite all her efforts to make sure she gets nothing apart from her own food.She has thrown out more of the Nature diet than she has eaten.She would really like a dried food for her,but is not convinced that she will eat it.She was thinking of a lamb based puppy food,but the only one she can see on the market is Purina,and she was going to give that a try.Is this just a trait with Cavaliers? her last dog was a toy poodle and she ate all her food with gusto,as well as all the scraps the kids fed her.The breeder also runs a boarding kennels and she will be going there for 10 days when she will be 7 months old,and my daughter is worried she won,t eat at all as they will just feed the dogs food with no bits of chicken etc.,so she is anxious to find a food that she likes and will eat on it's own.Any suggestions would be appreciated.She has tried taking the food away after 15mins but it made no difference,she still wouldn't eat it.

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