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Originally Posted by auntielaurie

My mentor ask me to take the puppy to the vet and have her show me how to tube feed the puppy. Which I did. It was a little scary at first but I got the hang on it and for the most part the puppy did great. The last couple of days was kinda different. She mostly refused the tube feedings, wouldn't swollow the tube. So I talked to my mentor about letting my other mama try to feed her. She advised me to keep a close watch on them. At first Ivy acted scared of the puppy, I tried over a two day period and Ivy accepted her. Let her nurse and acted very loving towards her. I would watch them through out the next day. Everything looked great.
I have been too sad to talk to anyone in person so unless she has looked on fb she doesn't know the puppy died..this has been really hard on me.

I know you did all that you could. Over the years I have switched pups around between moms, say if I had a female that had a really big litter and one that only had one or two puppies. My moms have always readily accepted the other moms pups. I doubt seriously that your yorkie intentionally killed the puppy. It sounds like the pup had other problems and just was not nursing well enough to sustain itself.