Hi
As some of you know, one of my bitches got 5 puppies 12 days ago. 4 big one and 1 tiny, little girl. To make it worse, she lost lots of weight the first day (much more than what is “normal”) so she was nearly down to half the weight of her brother and sisters. But she seems to be a fighter, and for the first week I put her to the mothers teats every two hour and made sure that she was “eating”, she did find the teats herself, but was easy pushed away by the others, that is why I had to “guard her”. So since then she have gained some weight every day (if you count pr cent of her birth weight, she gain more weight than the others)
I have been asking other breeders if I should have been given her some “extra” (bottle feed her) but most of them says no, but I would like to hear your opinions.
She is about 450 gram now, but all the other girls are well over 600 + the boy is 800! She is very “active”, and looks to be the first one that is open the eyes, and she is very cobby (but little). So should I just “relax” and think that she more or less will catch up with the others or should I start to feed her “extra”?
Kind Regards
Nina
Norway
