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Originally Posted by amerah6  I'm worried that me force feeding her has given her a belly ache now. .how often should I be making her eat..the last thing I want to do is make things worse!!! |
Why...is she bloated?
The amounts of times for feedings depends upon how much you can get in her at each feeding. Ideally, you'd feed her about 4x per day right now. So if you take the total amount she should get for the day and divide that by 4, that's the amount you'd want to give at each of the 4 feedings. If you can't get enough food in her at each feeding, then you'd have to go to 6 feedings.
Severe inappetance in puppies can mean something is truly, truly wrong / going on. Remember, that 98% of dogs LOVE to eat, they just do. That's why inappetance is such a major sign of an illness in a dog.
In yorkie puppies, severe inappetance can often mean a liver shunt. If this inappetance continues, if it were me I'd be soon testing her for shunt bc if you don't and she has it, it will cause mighty damage to her...including to her brain.