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12-03-2015, 08:02 AM | #1 |
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| 6 week old puppies My yorkies are 6 weeks old and only poop maybe once a day. I have 3 females and mom rarely feeds them and I've started them on puppy food. But I notice I'm only seeing poop once a day. Should I be concern? |
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12-03-2015, 11:48 AM | #2 | |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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Now, I take the opportunity to use this as a teaching moment....not criticizing YOU, but using this series of events as a teaching moment. THIS is how the public is educated and learns what is right and what is wrong. If people do not buy/support puppy mills, that problem will correct itself. People need to understand some clear indicators of "greeders" and how they function....the first dead give away is that they off load babies at 6-7 weeks of age, before they have to start SPENDING money on the litter....all they are interested in is clear profit....paying for vet appointments and baby shots, worming, etc., cuts into their profit margin, so they come up with all kind of phony excuses, from grandma is dying and I have to get rid of these 6 week old babies so I can go", to "this is perfectly OK been doing it for 50 years, never been a problem"...... This is NOT true, there is damage done....babies are taught how to be good dogs, from their mommas. It takes her 12-14 weeks to get this done and she should be allowed to do what God gave her the instinct to do.She will begin to teach them the lessons they need to learn to be good puppies that develop into great adult pets, but you have to allow her to do her job. This is where great breeders contribute to the breed, any breed, by encouraging and allowing mommas to raise and teach their babies! Of course, great breeders are dealing with quality bred dogs that are producing quality bred babies. Great breeder momma dogs will not abandon their babies when they are not really old enough to even survive by themselves....if they do show that they are not instinctively caring mommas, these dogs are not used to continue producing babies, as this is considered a personality flaw that I personally do not want to continue to produce, even in puppies that will be spayed/neutered as adults. . The unfortunate thing is if momma herself was separated from HER momma too early, she never received the necessary training from HER momma on how to be a good momma....you can see how this snowballs into dogs that are not prepared to reproduce, emotionally or health-wise. Then people get all up into what should be a natural process for the momma dog, they start upsetting the apple cart, intervening where no intervention is warranted, and another litter of babies are short changed......these babies are sold too young, with no demand for spay/neuter, and are then going to homes that will probably use them as breeder/money makers, and the entire chain of events just continues.... Know your State laws....in Texas, it is illegal to sell a puppy before 8 weeks of age.....if each State would even use the laws already on the books and prosecute people for breaking the laws concerning animals, that alone would make a HUGE dent in stopping incorrigible breeding practices by people that are only interested in turning a quick buck. If the public would stop honoring and supporting illegal puppy peddling, that would also make a huge dent in puppy mills. If every State would pass just ONE law and then ENFORCE it, that would alone put a HUGE dent in puppy mill breeding/selling dogs. That "magic law"? Make it illegal in every State to sell an unvaccinated puppy before 14 weeks of age, and you would see a MAJOR dent in puppy mills. Instead of trying to go after every single person breeding dogs in the country, go after the ones breaking the law! Make laws that benefit the puppies, such as vaccination requirements PRIOR to selling a puppy, and see what effect that has on people dumping 5-7 week old babies on the public! Like every industry that makes a living illegally, get to the root of the illegal activity...address people selling unvaccinated babies at too young an age. If "breeders" have to start spending money to keep puppies until they are 12 weeks old, and they have to sell them vaccinated, that alone is going to knock out over half the puppy mills in this country! Income from puppies is negated by having to vaccinate babies, so it is no longer a quick buck to churn out puppies and dumping them unvaccinated on unsuspecting public. This ONE act is a double edged sword for greeders.....they would have to be "burdened" with caring for babies for two to three times as long, PLUS they would have to spend big bucks on a VET vaccinating a litter of puppies.....have to have the babies vaccinated by a licensed vet, which is going to put a dent in many legitimate breeders budgets, as we do our own vaccinations, but that would just be another "cost of doing business", rather than a concerted effort to shut down all breeders except show breeders..... There is sooo much that could be done to protect not only buyers but also the PUPPIES that are being peddled willy-nillie, for nothing but income for some unscrupulous, uncaring puppy manufacturing scheme. I think this is the angle that should be pursued by the government, it would be cost effective and it would protect not only a public that is not even clear on what makes a good pet, but would also severely cut into the profit margin of puppy peddlers. Make it LAW that puppies can not be off loaded, unvaccinated, before AT LEAST 12 weeks of age, even better, 14 weeks of age....that would make the "breeder" responsible for giving at least 3 of the vaccines required to protect that baby. This ONE requirement would put a ton of these puppy manufacturers out of business, since their ONLY concern is profit margin. Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 12-03-2015 at 11:51 AM. | |
12-05-2015, 12:19 AM | #3 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Hemet
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| 🙀 that's a lot of information!! My puppies are still with the Mom and before they leave they do get their 1st shot. But my vet or no one has ever told me about keeping puppies for 3 months😳. Thank Yiu for sharing your knowledge. |
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