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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  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. |
Wylie's mom and every one on this board who gives you advice know their stuff backwards and forwards. They have been invaluable to me with my baby, too. I have owned dogs, but yorkies are different- and you just don't get it until you have one.
That said, my little Chewie is TINY. Very tiny little lady. Even with all of that, and the other dogs most definitely taking her food from her (based on how she eats at home, like we will take her food.. she walks away from us to eat) Even at all that, when we got her at 13 weeks and four days, she was almost 2.5 pounds. and, in the month since she's been here, she's packed on another pound. Even when my little Tee Tee's tummy is bubbling, she'll beg and beg for more food. She scarfs down food like she's at an Olympic champion eating competition.
However, when she was home the first 3 days, had I not taken her to the vet the very next day, we might have had issues, as she wasn't wanting to eat really. Even with a minor infection in the eyes she wasn't really hungry. That's why I am chiming in, not knowing nearly as much as these women do. Up until the shot incident, what I knew could fit into a small shoe.
Your little darling is getting the VERY best care from you. I'm rooting for you and her!!!