 cleft palate
i think i might have the same problem my yorkie had 3 pups on june 20th..would of been 4 but 1 was dead inside her but she pushed him out..sadly the girl i was keeping died 3 days later..i named them samson and scooter..scooter was the runt and samson the bigger..i noticed scooter catching up to him in weight and samson putting a few oz on each time i weigh them morning and night..last night i noticed he was 15.80oz morning night 15.30oz and seem lifeless i call the emergency vet and like you not 1 i like..she thought he had a cleft palate from the shape of the roof of his mouth differ from scooter.she said he will die on me..i'm giving him the milk threw a syringe cause the bottle isn't working and he still sucks from the mother and i weigh him soon after and he's up some oz..there' is no leaking threw the nose,or coughing he just doesn't seem bubbly like he did in the beginning..do all puppies this way need the operation and what is the survival rate cause his roof looks normal except shaped a little different from scooter..when i take them in at 5wks for deworming my vet is going to check again.. i'm in ontario canada is the operation pricely and do they all need the operation cause it doesn't look severe..thanks |