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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  Gerber baby food, chicken or lamb....it is bland and most of the babies love it and eat it easily. You are going to probably need to either let him lick it off your finger tip or feed him little squirts in his mouth with a syringe you can get from the vet. NEXT!! You need to contact the breeder you got this baby from. She needs to be told you are having a terrible time trying to get the baby to eat, and you are having hypoglycemia issues....she let this baby go home to someone that is totally inexperienced with puppies, this puppy is too young to be leaving his momma, he should be with momma until at least 12 weeks of age, ESPECIALLY since you are having eating/hypoglycemia issues. She should be ASHAMED of herself putting YOU in this situation, and abandoning this baby, which is HER "creation" when she bred the sire and dam!!!!
If I were you, I would get the Gerber baby food...I would syringe feed that baby if he wont take it off your fingertip or off a flat surface like a little dish....and I would get goats milk, warm a little up and put that in a shallow dish for him to lap up...he is just now at the age where momma is beginning to wean him...he doesnt know how to lap stuff up...YOU ARE HIS MOMMA NOW, so you are going to have to teach him how to lick that baby food off something and how to lick up that goats milk...this is something you are going to have to do like every 3 or 4 hours, in order to keep him hydrated and fed.....It will be labor intensive to start with, but he will catch on and learn what to do.... give him about 1/2 inch of NutriCal on the roof of his mouth every 4 hours during the day and the last thing you do at night before he goes to sleep...this is important, so you dont wake up to an unconscious baby from low blood sugar in the morning....I wish I could get ahold of that bree.....never mind!!!! |
Thanks for the food suggestions I'll keep those in mind. unfortunately the breeder is not really any help she swears he was eating dry food just fine but here he wont even touch it.
Luckily now that I'm syringe feeding him he is more alert and playful and hes eating all the food.
You don't even want to know about what the breeder did with Joey and his vaccines.
I might have rushed into getting him even though I wasn't crazy about the breeder because it was love at first sight. I may not be experienced but I have read almost every puppy book that I can get my hands on and I'm also very patient. I love this little guy. He's already peed on me once and pooped on the floor a couple of times and I just put him in his playpen, clean up the mess and play with him again. I will definitely do what I can so that he is healthy and happy, It's great to have a support system like you guys though.
