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| A friend of my DIL rescued 7 small 5 week old puppies from a busy street. I took one and she took one, but I don't know what would be the best food to feed these little girls. Should we feed them soft food, dry food softened with milk/water, etc? |
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| I would get some dry puppy chow and pour some hot water over it to soften. Try and stay away from milk. |
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 My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | GLP - 2017-09-05 3:05 PM
Thanks!
You make my heart happy!! Thank y'all for saving them. And keep us posted---have a name yet? |
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I've raised a ton of orphan kittens and I know they sell puppy milk replacer as well, I've seen it next to the kitten kind at the stores. I think it would be similar to kittens-maybe a heating pad in a corner of a box, puppy milk replacer and fresh water. |
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Location: IN MY OWN LITTLE WORLD AT LEAST THEY KNOW ME HERE | I would also suggest, taking those babies to vet n get them wormed n start puppy shots.
God Bless y'all for stepping up and loving those babies :0)
I've always fed mine puppy chow and warm milk.
Yeah I know some don't but I do ;0)
Also would fed fix mine some scrambled eggs and mix in ever once n a while, just real butter m eggs.
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My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Yakima - 2017-09-05 11:25 PM
I would also suggest, taking those babies to vet n get them wormed n start puppy shots.
God Bless y'all for stepping up and loving those babies :0)
I've always fed mine puppy chow and warm milk.
Yeah I know some don't but I do ;0)
Also would fed fix mine some scrambled eggs and mix in ever once n a while, just real butter m eggs.
I've used eggs before and Karo syrup also. Karo supposed to help if they have any upset bellies; from what I was told! |
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 Horsey Gene Carrier
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | GLP - 2017-09-05 3:54 PM A friend of my DIL rescued 7 small 5 week old puppies from a busy street. I took one and she took one, but I don't know what would be the best food to feed these little girls. Should we feed them soft food, dry food softened with milk/water, etc?
At 5 weeks there should be some teeth. I agree with the puppy chow and warm water to soften it. I would also get some puppy wormer into them at this point.
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Chandler's Mom - 2017-09-06 12:13 AM
Yakima - 2017-09-05 11:25 PM
I would also suggest, taking those babies to vet n get them wormed n start puppy shots.
God Bless y'all for stepping up and loving those babies :0)
I've always fed mine puppy chow and warm milk.
Yeah I know some don't but I do ;0)
Also would fed fix mine some scrambled eggs and mix in ever once n a while, just real butter m eggs.
I've used eggs before and Karo syrup also. Karo supposed to help if they have any upset bellies; from what I was told!
Karo is a life saver on kittens if they get Fading Kitten Syndrome. Bet it would work on a weak puppy too. I know I used it on my sick foal, Hawk. I added it to the mares milk to give him a boost. |
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Location: Never in one place long | Thank you for saving them! I would also recommend taking to vet for basic health check and likely deworming if able. I would recommend a puppy food and maybe ask the vet on their recommendation.
also, if you're unable to keep them until adoption, I can try and recommend different rescues that take puppies so that they can be spayed/neutered, microchipped, fully vaccinated etc before being adopted or maybe you're doing all that I just thought I'd offer that info. :)
Thanks and good luck! they are lucky you found them! |
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I just read the headlines
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| Thank you for all the replies! I broke my phone and was out of pocket for a few days. Next week I will take them to the vet. We haven't had a small dog in a long time, so I am kinda excited about this little girl. I am hoping she will be a little travel buddy. |
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | GLP - 2017-09-06 7:42 PM
Thank you for all the replies! I broke my phone and was out of pocket for a few days. Next week I will take them to the vet. We haven't had a small dog in a long time, so I am kinda excited about this little girl. I am hoping she will be a little travel buddy.
Baby photos please;) |
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My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | wyoming barrel racer - 2017-09-06 9:12 AM
Chandler's Mom - 2017-09-06 12:13 AM
Yakima - 2017-09-05 11:25 PM
I would also suggest, taking those babies to vet n get them wormed n start puppy shots.
God Bless y'all for stepping up and loving those babies :0)
I've always fed mine puppy chow and warm milk.
Yeah I know some don't but I do ;0)
Also would fed fix mine some scrambled eggs and mix in ever once n a while, just real butter m eggs.
I've used eggs before and Karo syrup also. Karo supposed to help if they have any upset bellies; from what I was told! Karo is a life saver on kittens if they get Fading Kitten Syndrome. Bet it would work on a weak puppy too. I know I used it on my sick foal, Hawk. I added it to the mares milk to give him a boost.
I've used it several times with great results. Of course my first Husky became a syrup addict, and I swear I think he faked tummy aches  |
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My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | DLV - 2017-09-06 10:30 AM
Thank you for saving them! I would also recommend taking to vet for basic health check and likely deworming if able. I would recommend a puppy food and maybe ask the vet on their recommendation.
also, if you're unable to keep them until adoption, I can try and recommend different rescues that take puppies so that they can be spayed/neutered, microchipped, fully vaccinated etc before being adopted or maybe you're doing all that I just thought I'd offer that info. :)
Thanks and good luck! they are lucky you found them!
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | My little girl takes a spoonful of Karo when her tummy is upset. Better than giving her pepto. Pepto makes it worse for her because of all her health issues.
Make sure you get the DARK Karo.
She will come to me at night or after dinner and say: "Momma, I need A-Roe". |
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| Puppy milk replacer or goats milk if you need to soften some food for them. Deworm every 2 weeks ASAP and first round of vaccinations at 6-8 weeks. |
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