Just checking back to see if you had received any more help.
Oh, about the antibiotic. It could be a viral or bacterial cause, but you are also going to be destroying good bacteria. Try to see if the puppy will lick some plain yogurt to counteract the antibiotic and restore the balance.
Sometimes a puppy with colic will cry and the cure for that is also plain yogurt. A puppy could cry because of gas also and a drop of GasX does the trick. Is mom cleaning him which stimulates him to urinate and defecate? If not, you need to be doing this to with a wet warm paper towel.
Hydration is the most important consideration right now. "Pinch" the puppy's skin if it remains "wrinkled" and doesn't lay flat quickly then he is dehydrated. If you can't correct this by giving ringers lactate orally, then a vet can give him an injection under the skin to remedy this. If the pup continues in a state of dehydration then his kidneys and other organs will fail.
Have you by chance checked the roof of his mouth to make sure he doesn't have a cleft pallet? |