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Originally Posted by bjh  I highly recommend you get a good quality dry puppy food and grind it in a blender until it is very fine and just leave out a small bowl of this for the puppy. The puppy will lick the food and it will make feeding easier. You can continue letting the puppy have the puppy formula also. Be sure to leave the pup confined to a smaller area where he can get to his food and water. If the pup has problems with constipation you can put a little karo syrup in his water. Do you know how much the puppy weighs? |
This is excellent advice and the thermometer advise often works as well for the constipation. I have even used 1/2 of a baby suppository. A 5 week old pup doens't need to be bottle fed but you must be vigilant with keeping him fed puppy milk and maybe a gruel made with the milk and ground puppy food for a little while. If the former owner just took him away from the mother and he has never begun weaning you will need to work with him closely. I had to wean 3 week old pups when the mother stopped producing milk and they were able the drink from a jar lid although it was very messy.Good luck with your puppy