Hi Karon,
That is the part the Vet left out...the nipple... I have been using a syringe and just letting enough out on her tongue that she can handle...some of it spills but she gets enough..I just thought a nipple would be better... I am going to the doc today for me and was going to stop at Walmart and the farm store to look for something that would work.
I was worried about her getting too much and getting it in her lungs...that is why I was asking and when I saw that it was doing I stopped doing it that way and tried another way..which did the same thing so I was asking for suggestions... and now I have them...
Thanks,
Annette
--- In boxerlovers@yahoogroups.com, "karon" <karon@...> wrote:
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> You are going to give her pneumonia that way. What you need is a large
> syringe with a nipple on it. that way, you force her to suck on the syringe
> to get the milk. We had this problem with squirrels. If they don't have to
> work for it the way they do with a mother, they will breathe in the milk,
> allowing the milk in the lungs causing pneumonia which can and often will
> kill them. if you use the syringe, you can hold the plunger back, making the
> dog really suck hard to bring down the milk. This will mean the dog swallows
> all the milk instead of breathing it and will decrease the possibility of
> pneumonia,
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> Poor babies.
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> They will have problems enough.
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> Karon Adams
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> From: boxerlovers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:boxerlovers@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Annette Hake
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 12:37 AM
> To: boxer lovers yahoo groups
> Subject: [boxer lovers] Question about feeding a puppy milk
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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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
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> Alan and Annette Hake
> and the animals we love,
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> Ravenden, Arkansas
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