Our little girl has done that from the first day we got her. She did it right off when we took her home. I was able to calm her down and she fell asleep on the way home and stopped shivering. But ever since, we've noticed it always seems to happen when she's stressed out, going through a new experience and/or has not eaten enough recently and it is near her meal time again.
So we have come to realize that it is actually sort of the onset of hypoglycemia and whenever it happens, we try to get her to eat something or we giver her nutrical (which she hates) or rub some Karo on her gums. We also keep a supply of prepared baby-cereal/Gerber's-strained-meat "mush" which we give her with a syringe. We sometimes wind up feeding her the mush with the syringe because once she has started the shivering thing, she is usually fatigued and refuses to eat anything and occasionally she will throw up white foamy stuff indicating her stomach is empty and upset (it gets upset everytime it's empty).
You might want to prepare some of this "mush" for when you bring your puppy home so that you have a back-up, should puppy be the type that won't eat once his tummy is empty and feeling upset. Our little girl now seems to like the mush and will voluntarily lick it off the end of the syringe.
1/2 cup half-and-half (goat's milk if the half-and-half is too rich)
1/2 cup instant baby cereal (rice is preferable, but we've used oatmeal as well)
1 entire jar of Gerber's strained baby meat (anything but turkey)
1 tsp. Karo syrup (or maple syrup if Karo isn't available)
We warm the milk up and mix in the cereal which will congeal into mush, then add the meat and the karo syrup. Feed it at lukewarm temperature by inserting the syringe into the side of puppy's mouth and gently squeezing the syringe.
This will give settle your puppy's tummy enough to actually eat regular food and the shivering will stop as well. |