You know those awful "failure to thrive" experiments done on lab animals to see what keeps a regular animal from growing normally - they likely employ some of those same lab techniques on those puppies to retard normal growth, such as offering sweetened milk spiked with alcohol or cheap drugs over dog food. Puppies get a buzz while getting enough nutrients to live but not thrive and grow - and they have little appetite, they sleep all the time and don't require much care that way. And they sell them as young as possible before they get sick and die.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis
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