[tammys]

Originally Posted by Mom2TwoYorkies

Awwwwwwww I got goosebumps . . .thanks for posting that Woogie Man.


Tammys:

Wow . . .and LOL "poster child for spay" How is she doing with her pups, is she being a good mom?

Yea, at her age, it really could have turned out badly.


Well, where do I start - I'll just number the issues; it will be easier:

1. The day after they were born, mama got sick with vomiting and diarrhea, and didn't have much milk.

2. The babies were losing weight, and one of them had to be bottle-fed along with nursing until mama got more milk.

3. Mama pulled the stitches out of the girl's tail the day they were docked.

4. The tail was glued the next day, and she pulled the glue out that night.

5. She licked the girl's tail so much that it was bleeding, and bald on the bottom

6. Then she found out that the boy had a tail too - made that one bleed.

7. We finally decided we had to remove mom from babies and bring her to them every two hours to nurse. Needless to day, we have not gotten much sleep!


8. Because we totally disrupted her natural instinct, we would have to hold her down to nurse, b/c she would jump out of the box.

9. She could not stimulate them, b/c she would make their tails bleed, so we had to do it. They wouldn't poop, so after around 24 hours, my friend, a vet, said to give them a warm water enema, which we still have to do in order for them to poop, so they will only poop once/day

10. Their tails are much, much, much better now, but they still will not poop when she licks them, so we still have to do the daily warm water enema. She still licks them way more than is necessary - I mean almost non-stop when she's nursing them, so we have to watch her when she's with them.

11. On a lighter note, mama has adopted a squeaky toy as a 3rd baby and carries it around everywhere. She digs, pants, and paces with it in her mouth, like she is carrying around a baby while she's in false labor. Her poor hormones are a wreck!

Their birth weights were: boy 5. 2 oz and girl 5.1 oz.

They are now: boy 12.2 oz and girl 14.4 oz

So, besides the poopie thing, they are doing great!