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Originally Posted by sinkerslingers  I am just outside Tulsa in Oklahoma. I think OSU has a vet program in Stillwater. A bit of a ways from me, but if he doesn't get better I will check them out.
The puppy food seems like a boat load more calories more than what he is getting now. But some of the ingredients aren't available around here so I may have to improvise. I did some searching online. Our only pet store is a Petco. But if I did my calculations correctly he is getting 96 or so calories a day on Goats Milk, compared to what would be over 1300 with the other. I must not be doing the math right. 16 cc 6 times a day 14 calories per cc.
When the one vet looked at him on day 2, there was no cleft palate, and he was whining to loud to hear his heart. She could only hear his wheezing and hence the antibiotics. But no outward signs of major problems. But I forgot to tell you he has 1 half ear. She said something as simple as the ear mamma could reject him.
At 4 weeks, another vet his heart sounded fine. But his head movements, no teeth, and ears still closed, they didn't want to deal with him. Said he was too far behind the other pups.
Today he finally got his upper canines and front top teeth. Spoke to the vet and she said to start bottle feeding him watered down jar baby food.
I am at a loss. I am going to try the recipe here minus the nutri drops. I can't find them local. Have to order them online. What is the shelf life of it? It seems like it will make a lot and the puppy milk is only good for 72 hours.
Thank you so much to everyone on here. As far as the type of terrier, black and tan with a scruffy mouth. Most of the pups look like beagles except for their colors but I have 2 with the terrier mouth, Tiny is one. |
Trust me....that baby is behind the curve and he needs the calories! He is growing!!! Baby food will NOT give him the nutrition he needs as a growing puppy....since he IS EATING a bottle fed formula, why not utilize that GOOD FORTUNE, get as many calories as possible in him, and depend on the PUPPY FORMULA (canned Just Born) plus the added nutrition/calories from additions to the formula, to provide the nutrition that is scientifically prepared to deliver a balanced diet to that pup???? If he was not eating anything and you were desperate to get food of some kind in him, great! baby food is a blessing.....but when you have a puppy that is nursing from a bottle, will drink a formula that will provide what that dog needs nutritionally as well as calorie wise, and choose human baby food over that??????? I have fed that formula to orphaned puyps or pups that were failure to thrive and fading pup syndrome for at least 10 years.....I have not lost a baby since. I have been doing this for over 30 years.....I know a little about raising pups and turning failure to thrive babies around.....unless those vets are reproductive/neonatal specialists, especially the one that suggested you just let the baby starve to death, I would go with experience over such advice from vets that dont really appear to want to be bothered.
I buy the Dr.Millers by the gallon jug....the shelf life is over a year, or more, especially if you store it in a cool cabinet or closet.....dont buy a gallon.....it comes in a pump bottle, maybe 16oz.....
Take the formula, mix it up, divide it in half and freeze half, refridgerate half to use!! How much does that baby weigh??? You should be going through that formula almost in under a week......
Dont concern yourself with calculating the calories needed for recovery....I am not sure you know the formula used to determine calories needed to burn to provide healing as well as building and providing the nutrition the baby needs.....If you DO have that formula, plug in your numbers and you will find you are not giving too many calories!!!!!!!
What ever you decide to do, good luck with the baby. I also would go ahead and get a diagnosis on the pup so you will know what you are dealing with.