newborn puppy care questions, momma dog questions, smothering?
We just had puppy #11 delivered but it was another still born. We’re having problems with the momma dog and wanted to know if it was alright to keep her seperated from the pups untill feeding time? She is producing milk and the pups are starting to get the hang of feeding but still need our help. Mom acts like a brooding chicken and keeps hording the pups. So far she has squashed 4. I want to keep them apart until feeding and clean up so she cant hurt anymore but not do any social damage. We’re down to 5 out of 11 pups. Mom doesnt care about you handlng them but she has no body awareness, often steping, laying or sitting on them. She dosent keep them all together to keep warm either. We put pups in a box w/ heating pad last niight with a shelf over the top and she sat on top the shelf untill it collasped and then squished 2. This is her first (and last) litter. She cleans them well after feeding. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks!
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This is a common problem with first time mom’s. The litter is so big that they haven’t any idea where the pup are and one either gets sat on or steeped on. You can keep them separated when they are not being fed. Just keep the pups warm and make sure they nurse ever 2 to 3 hours. Momma seems like she is trying but you will have to watch her carefully while feeding. A big job for you to do. Once the pups get much bigger than you can put mom and pups back together but I would still keep and eye on her.
Squashing them is normal with large litters, it can’t be helped. Don’t take the puppies away as they tend to feed continuously for the first few days. The only thing you can do it sit with her and supervise, they need her body warmth, it’s the perfect temperature for puppies and they can more easily regulate their temperature against Mom. If you take them, she may end up rejecting them in which case you will be doing two hourly round-the-clock bottle feeds and elimination on a lot of puppies. Best to leave her to do what she has to do and not interfere any more than necessary, it could do more harm than good.
She may even get angry at having them taken away and kill them as a result.
well ya u should keep her away from tha pups if she steps on em then thats not a good thing ouch! or u guys should have a cycle like some pups are put away for a while until feeding time and then the other pups are put away for a while and so on and so on