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Originally Posted by Parti Peanut  She's so cute. Glad she's eating. Just hang tough. I think this is going to work. Thanks Yorkiemom1! |
You are so welcome!! These little buggers will KILL you worrying and scurring and hopping and jumping, serving a little of everything you have in your pantry or fridge, or at least a dozen different types of dog food!!!!
Usually, when you get your pup from the breeder, that puppy HOPEFULLY has been started on a dog food of some kind....if you are dealing with a respectable breeder, your pup is at least 10 weeks old and has been eating dog food for about 5 weeks....when you first get the baby, you need to leave the baby on the food he is used to eating...."well, my baby has stopped eating....." and there they go, trying every kind of dog food you can get your hands on.....it has started!!! And it just spins downward and out of control from there! Just like any of us, they will have a day, when they just dont eat like they have been eating....rather than flying off the handle and start throwing every kind of dog food you can get your hands on in front of baby, let them "take a break", slow down, and they will go back to eating what they know.....keep it available to them (I do not believe in scheduled feedings for puppies....free feed them so they can eat when they get hungry!) Now if you have a sickly puppy, that has hypoglycemia, you have to be cautious and make sure that baby eats.....but if your baby is healthy, he does not have hypoglycemia, he will be fine, and he will NOT starve to death!! My mother used to say,"I do not know how in the world something so tiny, can get something so big (me!!), jumping and scurring around in a mad dash, catering to and trying to feed everything available in the pantry, to a tiny little dog!"
It seems everyone thinks ALL little dogs have hypoglycemia....they DO NOT!!! I have never sold/bred/produced a puppy with hypoglycemia! Just like everyone else, years ago, I had bought a little chihuahua that had hypoglycemia....years later, when I bought a tiny little male yorkie, HE had hypoglymemia and it was a horrific never ending battle/concern, making certain he ate SOMETHING every 3-4 hours around the clock.....but when I started breeding Yorkies, I used the best stock as my foundation breeders, and I have never produced a puppy with hypoglycemia!