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Originally Posted by Sweetums  How often do you feed your puppy? We fed our little girl every four hours and now that she's 7 months every six hours. We give her soft food at those time and we keep crunchies (Solid Gold Wee Bits) out for her at all times. We don't rely on crunchies alone because she only picks up a couple at a time and that's it for hours. Not enough for a growing pup.
If your puppy isn't eating a solid meal every four hours, then you might try feeding her by syringe with a mush recipe someone posted on here that their breeder gave them:
1/2 cup half-and-half
1/2 cup instant baby cereal (usually rice, but oatmeal works too)
1 whole jar Gerber's strained baby meat (anything but turkey)
1 tsp. Karo syrup (or maple syrup if no Karo is available)
Warm the half-and-half and stir in cereal. Add jar of meat and karo syrup. Cool to lukewarm to feed to your puppy. Insert syringe (we use a baby medicine syringe that you give a baby meds in which is available at the drug store) by inserting the syringe into the corner of the puppy's mouth and gradually squeezing the mush out. Our dog likes it now and voluntarily licks it from the syringe.
Nutrical isn't really a meal replacement. It's just an emergency measure to give your pup if it hasn't eaten in more than 8 hours and is going into a hypoglycemic episode. |
This is a great recipe
We used it for my little Lily who was underweight at only 0.8lbs when I got her and would not eat. I honestly think this saved her life. I would recommend replacing the half and half with goat's milk as many yorkies have trouble digesting the half and half. (I learned this the hard way)
She now eats Chicken Soup for the Puppy lover's soul wet mixed with Rebound in the morning and at night and the dry whenever she wants it. This keeps a nice round belly on her
Good luck with Milli. Please keep us updated on her.