One of my new born puppies (the runt) seems very weak. I keep finding her seperated from the rest. I believe she will die soon. I am going to feed her puppy milk by bottle. Should I feed her and place her back or keep her seperate from the rest?

I personally would keep the pup away from the litter if it keeps getting pushed out because if it cant stay close to the litter it may (will) become chilled and then it will die. Every couple of hours I would take the rest of the litter out of the box and allow the pup to nurse from its mother, if you can leave a few pups from the litter in while the runt nurses and not have them pushing the runt off then I would leave a few of them but take most of them out.

If you don't want to take the pup away make sure you heat the entire box so that when the runt gets pushed out it wont get chilled.

If the pup seems too weak to nurse from mom (or the bottle if needed) then try a sugar water or pedialyte or Karo syrup.. a few drops on its tounge 5 min. before feeding will give it the energy needed to eat.

Good luck with this baby and I hope you were already planning on keeping a pup because after all your about to go through if this baby survives you will be attached.

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by Lippycow on August 11th, 2007
Thanks for the advise...wish I would have had that answer a little sooner. Sadly, the pup died yesterday morning. I went to the store to buy the puppy formula and bottle but when I got back home it was too late. I even tried mouth to mouth on the puppy to bring her back but I was just too late. :(
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by DJ Butter jetpacking up up and away on August 11th, 2007
That is so sad, I hope all the others make it through... You might want to go get the little one autopsied just to make sure she didn't die from something that the others might have.
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by Elegant Kennels on August 11th, 2007
So sorry your puppy died.
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by Lippycow on August 12th, 2007
sorry to hear that. i hope the others are ok?. unfortunetly that is the way nature goes. the "runt" is the one to die - survival of the fittest.
still horrible thing to happen though :-(
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by angel_of_mercy on December 17th, 2007
thank you for the pedialyte tip my dog just had puppies she had two and one of them did not have any energy to eat but now its eating a lot thank you so much!
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by fabbyroks on January 2nd, 2009
Hey, glad it worked for someone!
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by Elegant Kennels on January 2nd, 2009
Its lovely when a AB users advice works:)
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by Lippycow on January 2nd, 2009
Good ideas.
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by dancer on July 12th, 2009

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