Change In Behaviour and Appetite

I am hoping someone can gave me some advice please. My Boy lennox is 17 months old now and I have had him since he was 6 weeks old. I changed his food last month as I was made redundant so went to a cheapper brand. I was using Bakers, about £3 per box and he can easily do one of them in 2 days. This cheap stuff he has been eating doesnt seem to have anything in it and after he been eating it for about a week, he know gone off food, including the food that i eat which he would normally goobble up no problem. More alarmingley he has also stopped drinking water and he is coughing up flem maybe 2/3 times day, its left him quite weak and doesnt pull on his lead anymore...any advice please??????

Firstly, welcome to the forum.

I doubt that it's the new food that's causing the upset, as you'd have noticed something a lot sooner. It sounds, to be honest, as though your poor boy has a stomach virus. Unfortunately if this is the case, only your vet will be able to help. As he's stopped drinking water, a visit to the vets sooner rather than later is in order. Dogs can dehydrate really quickly and that can make them very ill indeed.

On a different subject, I wouldn't recommend Bakers anyway, because it's full of added colours etc which aren't good for your boy. I'd go for one of the other brands without added colours/preservatives etc, although I know they're not all that cheap.

Let us know how your boy gets on, won't you?

Hi,
Sorry to hear about you been made redundant.
Personally i would get him checked at the vets,
Coughing up phlegm can be a sign of kennel cough.Is he coughing or sounds like he has something stuck in his throat?
sending Lennox lots of hugs and hope he is feeling better asap.

ye as been said get him cheacked over by the vet

and re-the food we went into this issue a couple of weeks ago when someone wanted to know what was the best feed the supermarkets had we done a bit of looking into it and the best i personaly found was a brand called i think was called haringtons i believe seemed to be of not to bad quality

hope this might be of some help to you

Hey, how's Lennox today? Is he drinking now?

Definately not the food and definately take your boy to the vets.
I feed all my dogs on Wagg and dog sausages except pups which are on wagg puppies and meat n jelly.