Small Puppies

[jools]

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My friends bitch gave birth to 7 puppies a couple of days ago, they all weigh 11 ozs except 1, he was 7.25 ozs and looks really tiny up to the others. He is suckling really well and almost always gets the best teats! He is also being supplemented with a bottle by his 2 legged mum!

The question is, do small pups usually catch up with the others?

 

[saraquele]

im afraid i cant give any info but good luck to your friend and the babies :luck:

 

[Lanakeshena]

Yes they do catch up, one of mine was only 5oz we just put him on back teats all the time i didnt supplement at all i felt dams milk was the best thing he could have, and we had litter of 8, we did this day and night making sure he was on a back teat, and he is now only slightly smaller than the other boy and they are now 11 weeks.

Best of luck to your friend and her litter, especially her little one :luck: they are alwasy a bit special!!

 

[chelynnah]

Savannah was the smallest in her litter - and noticably so. Even at 6 months she wasn't the same size as her sisters. By 18 months though, you'd never have known there had ever been a difference - so even though she wasn't caught up when she came home to us, she definitely did catch up later on.

So yes, small puppies 'can' catch up. But they don't always, and you'll never know for sure if/when they will.

Wendy

 

[jayp]

yes afriend had 9 in a litter, the biggest bitch is now the smallest,finest and the smallest runty dog the one she worried about is now a champion. you just cant tell, i do think though they need to be steadily putting on weight. :thumbsup: jan

 

[Seraphina]

i have also seen the tiny one ending good size and the biggest just avarege. But tell your friend absolutely NO to suplement, if anything it can set the baby back. More collostrum they drink in the first couple of days the better, if she fed the pup and it did not then bother to drink from its mum it means it did not get the collostrum and may have impaired immuinity. Best way to help is to put him on a good teat several times a day and make sure he is getting plenty of feed from his mum. :luck: :luck: :luck:

 

[jools]

Thanks very much for your replies, the little one is doing really well as yet, fingers crossed. :luck: :huggles: :luck:

 

[dana]

my dana was the smallest of the litter by a good half of her body size. she is nearly 10 years old now and still a dot.

 

[Julie D]

from what I could tell from early photos, Ella was equal in size to the other litter mates, at 9 weeks she was very noticeably smaller and has remained so, but we like her like that, she's very dainty o

:luck: to the little boy

 

[zilloot]

It's scary to imagine but one of my pups was only 3oz at birth and she will be 10years this July. She's not had any of the behavioural or physical problems our then vet warned us she might have.. but what a fighter she was! She had caught up with the other pup by the time she was six weeks old and he was twice her weight at birth.. and he was small too at 7oz. (He's looking forward to his summer birthday as well :huggles: )

 

[Seraphina]

It's scary to imagine but one of my pups was only 3oz at birth and she will be 10years this July.  She's not had any of the behavioural or physical problems our then vet warned us she might have.. but what a fighter she was!  She had caught up with the other pup by the time she was six weeks old and he was twice her weight at birth.. and he was small too at 7oz.  (He's looking forward to his summer birthday as well :huggles: )

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OMG, my pups avarege about 10oz and couple were 12oz. That would have been like a little baby mouse :wub: