December 7, 2010
Suggestions for mother dogs behavior with puppies?
Kathy asked:
My French Bulldogs gave birth to 3 puppies 3 days ago. I’m not new to litters but all my others have been very smooth. One of the puppies was close to the birth canal when the mother was given the gas and seemed to be a little slow at first (a day behind the others) but the mother has taken to mean something is wrong with the puppy and keeps trying to take the dog off somewhere. She puts the puppies head in her mouth. Im not sure that she wont try to kill it. (Don’t know how often that happens) I have stayed in the room since birth and if I try to go for a drink of water or anything, you hear the squealing and I run back and the puppy’s head is in her mouth. I don’t know weather to take to puppy away from her or stick it out. I couple of times I have fallen asleep and awakened to the squeal. I don’t mind the no sleep part but I do not want to end up with a dead baby. Any suggestions out there. Thanks, Kathy
My French Bulldogs gave birth to 3 puppies 3 days ago. I’m not new to litters but all my others have been very smooth. One of the puppies was close to the birth canal when the mother was given the gas and seemed to be a little slow at first (a day behind the others) but the mother has taken to mean something is wrong with the puppy and keeps trying to take the dog off somewhere. She puts the puppies head in her mouth. Im not sure that she wont try to kill it. (Don’t know how often that happens) I have stayed in the room since birth and if I try to go for a drink of water or anything, you hear the squealing and I run back and the puppy’s head is in her mouth. I don’t know weather to take to puppy away from her or stick it out. I couple of times I have fallen asleep and awakened to the squeal. I don’t mind the no sleep part but I do not want to end up with a dead baby. Any suggestions out there. Thanks, Kathy
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Have a vet check out the puppy to make sure there is nothing wrong with it. Sometimes mom’s know best and push out a puppy that will take up more resources for not a good outcome.
Keep the puppy in a warming box unless you’re in the room
You don’t need to bottle feed. If she’s allowing him/her to nurse, then let him. When you leave the room, the puppy goes out of her reach until you return
If you want the puppy to live, you must take it from the mother now. You’ll have to hand feed him. She definitely thinks he was hurt some way during birth, and her natural instinct is to kill off any damaged runts to protect the whole group. In nature, it would be kindest thing: if he really is too small and slow he would slowly starve to death because the other pups would never give him a chance to get any milk from her.
please make sure that one pup is warm enough to survive. Pups that get cold being pushed away from Mom, cool off and cannot keep themselves warm. If they are not warm, they cannot digest milk. Pups only cry for three reasons -cold/hot – hungry – have to go potty. Take charge and make sure the pup is fine. These slow pups need not die.