If there are any members in this area, can you please read this and possibly help or contact someone who may?? There should be a piece on Channel 10 news out of Sacramento tonight ... maybe not until the 11:00 news. If everyone who can phone the hotline and express a desire to hear this story, it would help!!
News Hotline: (916) 321-3300. If any of you know anyone ... a vet, vet tech, breeder, etc., who is experienced with tube feeding and would be willing to help, please, please let Dena know. Her email addy is: Mom2BabyNatalie@aol.com
This is a portion of the information I received from Dena. This baby still hasn't eaten!!! Please help if you can!! Thank you so much!!
"This woman contacted me this morning - only moments ago.... her Chihuahua just had a litter of pups a few hours ago.... baby has a full midline cleft of the soft palate... cleft of the hard palate, nose and lip. They are located in Roseville... Placer County.... I'm wondering if there is ANY WAY POSSIBLE that you would know of someone willing to go pick this lil' one up.... he will need to be tube fed by someone with experience doing this.... and cared for until I am able to make arrangements to get him here to Oklahoma. Whether it be a vet hospital willing to help... a local rescue group who can care for him temporarily... or a loving individual with some experience with the type of intensive care this baby needs... I've asked the owner to spend the next several hours expressing as much milk from mom as she can, into a sterilized jar and refrigerate it so that once baby can be tube fed, he will at least get SOME of mama's milk. Please let me know your thoughts.... any direction is appreciated!! This is an urgent matter.... baby cannot eat on his own.... owner is disabled, cannot leave the house, is on SSI and the vets she called say to euthanize .... (she can't even get to the vet to have that done). Why she's letting her dogs breed, I don't know... ::sigh:: Please offer a prayer today.... his mama is just beside herself.... 
Thanks as always, Dena & Emma"