Please, I need help with my brand new yorkie pup! So I got my lil 8 week old baby on Tuesday afternoon and she was playing and running and kissing all day. She started using her bed, puppy pad, and water bowl but showed no interest in her food and wouldn't even sniff it. (Science Diet Puppy Canned Food, which my breeder had been feeding her) I tried to feed her out of my hand and I also tried putting some on the floor in front of her. My breeder told me to pick up Nutri Cal so I did that and she WOULD take that. I figured, ok she's still adjusting I'll let her nerves go down and I'm sure she will eat. She was also vomiting a little bit and her stools were a little loose but I figured again, must be nerves.
Then on Wednesday and Thursday she would eat Nutri Cal and I could sneak in just a tiny tiny amount of her food in while she ate that. Her energy on Thursday was noticeably down and I started to notice her shaking, not wanting to be around us, sleeping most of the day... I figured she must be tired from playing so much the first two days and needed to rest. Luckily I had read all about hypoglycemic reactions because at 6 am that next morning I woke up and her body was sitting up in her bed but her head was laying outside the bed. She had no life to her body and her eyes were rolling into the back of her head and she was shaking I quickly got syrup sugar and water and mixed it up and took a straw and got her to revive! Then I was able to get her to take a little bit of food mixed with water again using the straw. She was much better after that.
Yesterday I got Pedialyte unflavored, a syringe, and some of that activia yoghurt. I think the Nutrical made her sick and that we used too much of it unfortunately, so I am stopping with that at least for now. She was being very good yesterday as we tried to give her between 5 and 10 CC's of a food water mix every 3 hours or so. She even opened her mouth for us at one point. She seemed to be getting a little bit of her energy back and was following us around and being more playful. Then again this morning I found her around 7 not as bad as the first hypoglycemic attack, but again, eyes rolling a bit, and not much life to her. I did the same syrup water sugar mix and then waited a bit and tried to feed her but she pried her mouth shut and absolutely would not take any of the food.
I got the pedialyte and yoghurt because I had read about them here. I also picked up puppy milk but gave her just a little bit and she puked it right up so that's out. I haven't used the yoghurt yet....and she doesn't want to drink the pedialyte she seems to notice it's not water.
She has been pretty good this whole time about drinking water, which is the one thing that seems good to me. I'm just worried about this syringe business. I don't understand why she acts like she's never eaten before? All throughout this I have made tons of things for her just to try to get her to eat something! Scrambled eggs, turkey, chicken, her food mixed with some dry food, ...nothing interests her. I've put a little bit of nutrical or syrup mixed in, still nothing. After this second attack it is obvious to me that she needs to go to the vet. I know I should have taken her before but I just kept htinking this is just a phase, and this is my first puppy so please excuse my ignorance. I honestly didn't know I would encounter all these problems. Any advice y'all might have or suggestions, or stories, me and Stormy would greatly appreciate it. I truly hope that she will keep eating from the syringe and if I keep leaving food out she'll eventually take to it, and maybe I just need to give her a little more than I did yesterday she won't have another hypoglycemic reaction.
Thank you!
-Picasso |