Re: [PyrNet-L] pups need help

["Donna Coffman" <dcoffman@erols.com>]

Gerber baby chicken off of your finger may start the eating process.  If
that works, then you can put it in a dish with a little bit of kibble and
if that works, slowly increase the kibble.  Pieces of cheese and eggs over
easy may also work.
Good luck.

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> From: Dogsownme@aol.com
> To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
> Subject: Re: [PyrNet-L] pups need help
> Date: Sunday, August 09, 1998 5:13 PM
> 
> I am having a very difficult time getting one of the rescue puppies to
eat.
> (Somewhere between 12-16 weeks of age)  I tried the sniff test with
science
> diet growth, eubakanuba dry and they have no interest so I resorted to
canned
> waltham growth.  I can get the larger to eat the canned, so I am grinding
the
> eubanakuba into a powder to try to get some added nutrition into them
(and
> hopefully wean them off the canned and onto the dry totally).  I think it
is
> lack of human bonding, fear, and depression over leaving the only life
they
> knew (living in an acre fenced in area with 6 adult dogs and the rest of
their
> litter with no human socialization, eating whatever food they could get
from
> the adults' dishes). The first pup went to his new home, but these 2
females
> are going to need a lot of help.  The vet checked the first one and said
> "undernourished, underweight and probably full of worms".  They weigh
20-25
> lbs each and have now been wormed.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  I try giving them fresh
water
> every 1/2 hour or so, and they do drink, but even that is not great.  I
just
> resorted to a syringe and squirted 2cc at a time of ground eubakanuba (a
> whopping 10cc total) and she vomited it back up. Last time I used
pedialyte
> when I had similar problems with pups, do you recommend that?
> 
> Thanks again for all the help and support,
> 
> Marcie