Re: [boxer lovers] Question about feeding a puppy milk

 

Hi....
May I suggest that you check out StLouisCanine@yahoogroups.com It's a
pretty good group and who know's maybe someone will be looking for a pretty
boxer baby.....there's another group that's owned by a vet nurse.....I'll
find it and forward the info to you.....
Auntie Janice

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Annette Hake <annettehake@yahoo.com>wrote:

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> How do you get a little week old puppy to drink milk out of a baby bottle
> without it going into their nose... I have tried tiny bottles and regular 4
> oz bottle with only one hole in it and she still sucks hard enough to get a
> bunch in her mouth and some always goes in her nose and then it takes a bit
> to get her nose cleared... I'm worried about getting milk in her lungs.
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> When she is nursing, she sucks really hard on a teat for a little bit and
> then she stops and just lays there sort of half asleep and one of the other
> pups knocks her off of the teat before she gets full...and her tummy is
> only about half full while the others are all pooched out full...She is the
> smallest now but was the same size as the others when she was born... I
> don't want to lose her and I keep putting her on a teat so she gets enough
> milk. She is plenty lively but small.
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> Any suggestions I have not thought of...
> I am giving her and the other little gray one, canned goat milk...as a
> supplement..but they are drinking off momma, Boo, most of the time...
>
> Annette
>
> Alan and Annette Hake
> and the animals we love,
> on Menookhaw Mountain
> Ravenden, Arkansas
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