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Originally Posted by Sookie  Kalina bad her five puppies four weeks ago and she is a hog! I can't seem to give her enough food, but the first two weeks she went through a lot of stages, includimg refusing food. I found she ate much better if I hand fed her for some reason. so that's what I did. Here is what she eats now:
7am-Full can of Merrick Wing-a-Ling, which has bones and, therefore, calcium. She loves it like nothing else. All my dogs love it. I also give her an Oxymama which is made by Revival and helps with milk production. Highly recommended as she has much more milk than I could hope for to sustain five fat pups.
10am-Scrambled egg, unseasoned, with a slice of cheese melted on top.
2pm-Canned Wellness puppy food.
7pm-Ditto
10pm-Whelping pudding with her calcium pill mashed and stirred in.
3am (Yes I get up, it's worth it to me)-Can of Merrick
Dry Natiral Balance kibble is always available with feesh water, of course.
And she is very thin, though not as thin as she was two weeks ago. She's doing great. |
more great ideas - I do so appreciate all responses. the first night I insisted the whelping box be between hubby and I the first night. Now the whelping "cage" is right next to the bed and I get up at every sound...I told you I'm a worrier!!! I have this fear (irrational I'm sure) of her suffocating them and I won't hear their cries ( she seems to count her pups before she sits/lays down but always stops at three - funny but her last litter she had three - don't think she's got it figured out she has 4 this time and seems to plop down on one of them every time) I did let the scrambled egg cool tonight chopped it very fine mixed it in with the whelping pudding, to which she sucked the pudding up and ignored the egg, thus I scooped the pudding and egg out together and hand fed her...she did eat some of it.