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12-22-2007, 12:51 AM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Los Angeles
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| Newbie Question on new borns My Yorkie's had puppies 1 died and 1 lived. Pregnancy was an accident as father is 15 years and mother is 3 years old. The smaller one is the one that lived. The larger one which died durning birth was just 4.8 ounces. Mother is just under 3 pounds father is just over 4 pounds. Puppy who lived was born at 3.3 ounces after 23 days tho puppy is 17 ounces. Is it normal for them to grow that much? I look at a couple of the charts online and if this puppy keep growing at this rate he is going to be huge. Also using those charts based on weight at birth puppy is growing way too fast. Is it possible because it only puppy mother is over feeding him? She is kinda of husky looking. Vet told me she just has lots of baby fat and because she finally opened her eyes today after 21 days she might not have been very mobile which also could be why she is husky. She should start to loose weight over the next couple of weeks. Btw Puppy is barely crawling or moving and vets claim that the grunt of the litters tend to develop slower. Only reason I am asking on here now is because same vet told me mother did not need a c-section as dogs give birth naturally and after reading this board it seems most small female yorkie's need them. If the vet would have done the c-section I might have 2 live puppies. Also by not doing c-section mother could have died too. So I am starting to doubt the vet a bit. Wondering if I should switch vets maybe too. The puppy just wants to sleep all day long too. Not sure if that is because it has no other puppies to play with her or what. Any insight would be great. Thanks for reading my post. |
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12-22-2007, 04:25 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: North Carolina
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| Yes, you are very lucky that the mother didn't die since she is so small. Please get her spayed as soon as possible so you won't have another "accident". A dog who weighs less than three pounds should not be bred under any circumstances. |
12-22-2007, 08:41 AM | #3 |
BANNED! | Wow your lucky the mother did not die during the birthing process. Under 3 lbs. should not be breed at all and you should have aborted the pregnancy immediately. That being said i'm glad your mom is doing okay after such an ordeal. Once the puppy is weaned you will see a change in weight, since this is the only puppy that has survived it is getting all of mom's milk and attention which keeps the puppy eating very well and less mobile. |
12-22-2007, 08:45 AM | #4 | |
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I am more worried about the puppy as he is growing or getting very fat depending on how you look at it. Puppy is very short, small and stocky. Also puppy seems to only want to sleep all day too. And from many of the web page I have read he seems to be very oversize and under developed as it took her 3 weeks to open her eyes. And from reading many of the web page she should be at a minimum crawling a lot or walking by 4 week except her eyes should have opened between 10-14 days they did not open for 21 days. So she seems to be lagging by 7-11 days in her development. Should I be worried about the puppy or some puppy just take longer to develop? | |
12-22-2007, 08:57 AM | #5 |
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| I don't have any answers for you but just wanted to wish you good luck and say welcome to YT
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