I recently had the same thing happen to me. I bought a puppy that was supposedly eight weeks, which is the legal age in California to sell puppies. I took her to the vet and found out she was no more than six weeks old. The vet told me to keep food in her bowl at all times so she could eat when she wants. I gave her wet food mixed with water until her teeth started to come in and then I slowly started to put kibble in with her wet food. My baby also did not drink water or go poop for a day or so after I got her. I believe it was the shock of being brought to a new home and a three hour car drive. Penny is now ten and half weeks old and she is doing fine. The only issues I have is that she bites a little hard when she gets excited. That is because she was not able to learn how to control her biting from her mother and siblings. For the first two weeks I had her I made sure not to leave her alone and she slept in bed with me. I did this because under a normal situation she would be constantly surrounded by her mother and siblings. I recently began to crate train her and at first she seemed to have separation anxiety, but with a few days of being put in the crate and me leaving and coming back she has seemed to understand crate time as her time to relax. I hope that your baby has a smooth transition like my baby did. I believe that it is better she came home with me, then staying with a breeder that obviously did not care about her or her siblings because they were all sold with in a week. |