What to Feed Newborn Puppies

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"She's really ready to eat. She's started to suckle on my finger, if you can see that. She wants to eat. This puppy's ready. What we have to do now is figure out how much to feed the puppy. We do this by determining her weight. So I'm going to use this scale here, and place her on the scale and just see how much she weighs. Here we go. She weighs just about a pound. So a pound is sixteen ounces. Let me move this to the side so you can continue to see the puppy. You can see here that she's trying to nurse. She's looking for a place to nurse. We're going to use some powdered puppy milk replacement. Again do not use anything but puppy replacement milk. You can get this at pretty much any puppy store, I mean any pet food store. And every kind is a little bit different. So you want to make sure you read the directions for that you get. Now the directions for this particular formula is to give, you want to give thirty mls of the liquid, which I have exactly here, thirty mls, for every four ounces of body weight of the puppy. We know this particular puppy weighs one pound, which is sixteen ounces. So sixteen ounces, four, divided into sixteen is four. So I'm going to give four, thirty MLS, so that's one hundred and twenty MLS throughout the day. So that's the entire feeding for the entire day for that puppy. And you want to break that up throughout the day every three to four hours. So we're going to give two bottles, one of these is sixty MLS, two bottles throughout the day."