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Originally Posted by wildcard  Give the smaller ones more nursing time by removing the larger ones from the box. With that many babies, you will have "milk bullies" that push the smaller ones off. I had a litter of six papillon puppies this summer, and there were two puppies that were constantly being pushed out of the way. For these two puppies I would hold their mother and let them nurse by themselves four times a day. On the smallest, the only boy, this went on for several weeks. We ended up keeping the boy, and at the age of 5 mos now, he is the cuddliest, most people oriented puppy I have ever known-- sometimes I wonder if it was all that extra time that I spent holding him while he nursed LOL. |
LOL how cute Milk bullies!