Newborn Puppy Health Warning Signs

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"We have to feed him every three to four hours and feed it throughout the night. They just need to eat. When they are with their mothers they just turn over and nurse whenever they are hungry so this is a lot of work to take care of a puppy and it takes a bunch of time but in a week or so she is going to start actually in about a week and a half she will start to eat some puppy food and that is when we can introduce some puppy food with some milk in it and see if she will start eating. Some things that you want to watch out for when you are caring for a puppy like this is: 1) if it starts getting lethargic. If they are getting tired and they don't want to move around that may be a sign that they are starting to get sick. Something else that we want to watch for is diarrhea. If you are starting to notice that they are just getting very watery diarrhea rather than forming stools that is something that probably needs to be cared for. They may have internal parasites that need to be addressed or some other form of infection. We also want to watch for any signs that she is getting discharge from her nose or having trouble breathing. With these puppies it is very easy for them to get pneumonia and respiratory problems if the milk goes into their lungs or into their nose and we are trying to be a mom to this puppy but really it is nothing like the real thing. We always want to make sure that these puppies stay with their mothers at any cost you never want to pull them from their mother if there is a mother available. Mom's care is so much better than any care that we can provide even if we do the absolute best for them."