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royalpuppies · 12-21-2005, 04:19 AM

For me personally puppies go between 8 and 12 weeks of age... The main concern is hypoglycemia... We make SURE! that when the puppy leaves it will be able to handle the stress of moving... If we are not certain then we wait... It's sad at time to wait I know but I would not want a call teling us the puppy died from low blood sugar... I would be blaming myself...

This hapened to me once.... We sold a dog at 11 weeks old (very very small) and it had a hypoglycemic reaction and the lady brought the puppy to the vet (not thinking about low blood sugar even after we told her about 200 times) at the vet they immediately said (LIVER SHUNT!)... They put her on a strict no eating diet and she got many different things... After giving all the crap for liver shunt they found she had low blood sugar (fromt he blood tests) They tried to give the sugar but it was too late... All of poking around and transfusions killed the puppy... To make sure it was not liver shunt we paid for an autopsy and it showed that liver shunt was not there...I WAS MAD! and now I make sure that the puppy will be ok... 8 to 12 weeks of age is for standard sized puppies... It can get longer is they are Teacup (runts)

Marc-o

12-21-2005, 04:19 AM	#15
royalpuppies Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 73	Size, health, and hypoglycemia, For me personally puppies go between 8 and 12 weeks of age... The main concern is hypoglycemia... We make SURE! that when the puppy leaves it will be able to handle the stress of moving... If we are not certain then we wait... It's sad at time to wait I know but I would not want a call teling us the puppy died from low blood sugar... I would be blaming myself... This hapened to me once.... We sold a dog at 11 weeks old (very very small) and it had a hypoglycemic reaction and the lady brought the puppy to the vet (not thinking about low blood sugar even after we told her about 200 times) at the vet they immediately said (LIVER SHUNT!)... They put her on a strict no eating diet and she got many different things... After giving all the crap for liver shunt they found she had low blood sugar (fromt he blood tests) They tried to give the sugar but it was too late... All of poking around and transfusions killed the puppy... To make sure it was not liver shunt we paid for an autopsy and it showed that liver shunt was not there...I WAS MAD! and now I make sure that the puppy will be ok... 8 to 12 weeks of age is for standard sized puppies... It can get longer is they are Teacup (runts) Marc-o