[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Any ideas?
- From: Kate Syssoloff <rockannand@xxxxxxx>
- To: asyakgsd@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:10:53 -0600 (MDT)
Sorry to read about your puppies not feeling well. My answer about the cold
turkey effect, is NO, these are too young to be missing their dinners so the
answer has to be elsewhere. 10 old puppies that do not want to eat generally
have worms or more likely coccidia. But, since your vet diagnosed the pups has
having a digestive infection and I suspect antibiotics were administered? That
is a lot of medication for a puppy. To get a 2nd set of shots plus be put on
antibiotics. For sure, you need to make sure your puppies are very well
hydrated, sick puppies do not want to eat OR drink. And, you can lose them
just as fast from dehydration as you can from the actual sickness. Goats milk
is wonderful for their upset tummies and very much like their mom's milk. I'd
offer them some of that or yogurt.
Did you have their stools checked for coccidia and broad spectrum worms?
Healthy puppies will eat anything!! I hope they get over whatever it is soon.
It's so hard on you, I can tell.
Kate @ Rockannand
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From: "Debbie" <asyakgsd@xxxxxxx>
To: "The List" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, 25 July, 2013 7:40:38 PM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Any ideas?
I have a litter of pups that are 10 weeks old on Friday (my first, but not the
first I have helped raise). They were all doing perfectly fine and normal
until 8 weeks of age. I was feeding them raw up until this point, but always
planned to switch them to kibble (as that is what I feed). At 8 weeks of age
they had their second vaccination (a 5 way) and were microchipped. 1 puppy
went to it’s new home that afternoon. The other 6 went out for their first run
(in a place where I have run my adults for years) the following day. They
seemed to take the switch quite well for the first couple of days, but slowly
they stopped eating. The 1 pup that was sold, I am told is eating her dry with
a little canned three times a day just fine. The ones that remained became
less and less interested in food. Over a week ago we went to the vets and they
were diagnosed with a bacterial infection in their intestine and sent home with
10 days of medication. This should have increased t
heir appetite almost immediatly and it didn’t. He is a baffled as we are, as
he says they are perfectly healthy. Healthy stools, temperaturer and attitudes
(they are very playful and active).
At 8 weeks of age 2 went to the co-breeders house and she has been working with
them. Those two will eat some meat, but only slightly pick at kibble. I
finally decided to try putting them onto a bland diet to “reset” their system
so to speak (I once had a dog who we had to do this with for over a month, as
he had scarfed some rancid meat in a field). So I boiled up some chicken (in
salt free chicken broth) and cooked some rice (in salt free chicken broth).
They have finally settled down to eating that. I also leave kibble down in
their pen at night and during the day when I am at work. They will pick at the
kibble and once in a while eat it all ( 1 to 2 cups left in at a time), but
their is no consistancy in their eating pattern.
They will eat one thing at one time, and not the next (canned dog food, canned
cat food – to tempt them –, chicken topping on kibble"). I offered them a can
of tuna one time and the took a couple of licks and nibbles and walked away.
They don’t seem to eat anything with any real gusto, like I am familiar with,
with puppies. I am at my wits end as what to try. Do I try a cold turkey
effect. Offer them only what I am planning on feeding them (kibble with a
topping) and if they don’t eat it in the 15 to 20 minute time frame, pick it
up. And stick to my guns and see if they get hungry enough to come around?
Thanks
Debbie
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