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Originally Posted by YorkieRose I am sure it can effect her cycles...she will need to be built up and rested after weaning this orphaned litter...nursing is far harder on bitch then gestation and whelping. Can she come and go as she pleases..get away from the pups? |
Oh yes, she can come and go when ever she wants. The only time she was "locked" in the cage was only at night the first week after Reggie died. But she was in there with Sissy. The two of them provided the body warmth and comfort that I couldn't. It wasn't until the following week to week and a half that she got milk. The girls will be 6 weeks old on Monday. Roxie is beginning to run and hide from them as they chase after her as if she was their mother. They only nurse from her maybe three times a day as they have been eating mush food as per vets recommendation at 3 1/2 weeks due to the runs. It was around then or shortly there after that the milk appeared.