[Mastiffmom_1]

I have a 1year old English Mastiff I got him about a week ago and he has not touched his food.He keeps on eating grass he only had one bowl movement.He does like to eat some of our food but stopped eating that to Please Help.

[Gkhster]

I don't think I'd wait any longer before consulting the vet. Also, perhaps you can talk the a breeder.

One bowel movement in a week is alarming. Even if he is not eating, bowel movements should continue to some extent.

Eating grass can mean many things. Perhaps he has a case of worms and/or enteritis. Those are easily treated by a vet.

NOT EATING PEOPLE FOOD! He must be feeling very cruddy! Poor baby!

Please let us know what happens.

Guy

[labman]

It is unfortunate you let this drag into a holiday weekend. I am not sure if you need to panic and try to find a vet today. As long as he doesn't seem to be greatly distressed, I would wait until tomorrow. Do you know where he had been taken in the past? You at least want to get his records. In an emergency a vet might be friendlier to an old patient with a new owner than a strange vet.

This sounds to me like a possible intestinal blockage, which is very serious, perhaps requiring surgery. I would not make great efforts, very tempting food, to get him to eat until a vet sees him. In the transition, he may have found something and gulped it down and not be able to pass it.

Some older dogs refuse to eat for strange people. None of the one year olds that visit me now and then ever had a problem. Eating grass is another sign of intestional distress. I am thinking this is a physical problem. Call a vet the first thing in the morning.