deadeye ruck
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Re: Female won't hardly eat need some suggestions
quote: Originally posted by Mark Antrim
I got a 3 year old female that just had pups Saturday night into Sunday. She has always been a very picky eater now that she has had pups she has only ate about 2 cans of can dog food. I took her to vet this morning he checked her, she doesn't have any more pups in her and gave her a shot of B12 and another shot and some of his can dog food that she acted like at vet she really liked it got home she took a couple bites and was done. She is starting to look very bad since she had 11 pups. I'm thinking about pulling pups off her rather than lose her. Vet said he wouldn't. I have raised several pups but have never had one that won't eat. But i will say she is probably best mom out of any i have raised. Just need to get weight on her quick. I've tried 4 kinds of can food and 3 types of hard food soaked.
Mark,
As others have said, this is fairly common. If she is a good momma then that means she has cleaned each pup, eaten the afterbirth from each one and has been on 24 hour duty to keep them cleaned and fed. She probably isn't sleeping any either. If they have a sizeable litter, it is hard on the female for the first 3 days or so. They will get dragged down a bit but usually bounce back quick. This is one of the reasons why it's a good idea to try to keep them in good shape leading up to the day they are due.
As I am sure you know, the main thing to watch for is an infection (but in my experience, this usually doesn't show up until about a 5-7 days after birth) and also calcium deficiency. Feed her anything she'll eat, canned dog food, vanilla ice cream, egg, etc. I personally like to give mine cooked beef liver for the first few days after birth along with her food. The main thing to watch for is to make sure she is drinking water.
If she seems stiff, lethargic, etc then those are red flags to high tail it back to the vet. You can also monitor her temperature. Now that she has had pups, it should stay below 100 degrees.
Good luck with them. I have a good idea they will be just fine.
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