[tammys]

For those of you who have not been following our puppy issues, so far we have dealt with these things:

1. Mama took the stitches out of baby girl's tail and licked it until it bled
2. Next day the vet glued the tai,l and mama removed the glue, and licked it again until it bled.
3. She realized baby boy had a tail and licked that until it bled
4. Both tails were raw, bleeding, and believe it or not, a little shorter than they were after they were docked!
5. Mama had to be supervised at all times with babies, and every two hours, we would bring her to her babies, so she could feed them, but she could not stimulate them to pee and poop, b/c she would hurt their tails again (she snuck into their box one night, and it wasn't pretty an hour later when I found her - blood all over the towel!)
6. Babies would not poop - regardless of what we stimulate them with - cotton, washcloth, etc.
7. Puppies' runny noses
8. And before all that, mama got sick the day after they were born, vomiting with diarrhea, and didn't make enough milk. Babies lost weight, but today (day 10), they have more than doubled.

FAST FORWARD TO TODAY
9. Babies still won't poop without warm water enema, and even then, the boy doesn't always go. They are going once/day. Yesterday, the baby had normal colored poop first, then some came out with a hint of green color, and what looked like little seeds. The vet said as long as he is eating, sleeping, gaining weight, we should just watch him.

10. Both babies still have runny noses. Again, we are just supposed to watch him. What's up with runny noses? Sometimes they sneeze. They do have a heating pad on half their box.

Mama is eating puppy food. I was mixing in some puppy formula with some of the food, but stopped doing that today.

The puppies are not receiving formula, just nursing.



Sorry this is so long, but has anyone ever known of such young puppies being constipated, and then having greenish, seedy poop?