To hold a living creature, to see its loveliness and to breathe in that sweet puppy breath, to feel its heart beat in your hands, to know its trust in you, is to understand the special bond between a puppy and its breeder.

TREATING DIARRHEA

Feed boiled chicken, shredded (NO SKIN) mixed in with plain rice. feed VERY small amounts 6 or so times a day, a couple tablespoons each time. Just enough so she won't throw it up. If she does throw up, cut her back.

You can also try a boiled egg mashed with rice.

Right now you want to keep the food very bland, with no fat/ grease or olive oil to upset her tummy. You can also boil extra lean hamburger skimming off all fat and liquid and mixing it with rice. Freeze the liquid from the chicken or ground beef and you can add it to their food when they are better.

For variety, you can also feed plain pasta instead of rice. Keep in mind the rice/ pasta might constipate the dog. Don't worry, this too shall pass

DO NOT FEED ANY COOKIES OR TREATS AT THIS TIME.

She will lose weight but don't worry. You can get the fat back when she is better....

Make sure lots of fresh water is available. Change the water many times during the day.

*** In fact a better idea instead of water is buy some UNFLAVORED pedialite for babies from your pharmacy or grocery store (in the baby section). It's full of electrolytes that the dog will need due to losing them through vomiting and diarrhea.

 

 

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A BREEDER'S TALE

I love my little puppy, he makes my house a home, he always is my best friend, I never feel alone. He makes me smile, he makes me laugh, he fills my heart with love. Did some breeder breed him? Was he sent from heaven above?

I've never been a breeder, or seen life through their eyes. I hold my little puppy, just sit and criticize. I've never know their anguish, I've never felt their pain,
The caring of their charges, through snow or wind or rain.

I've never waited all night long for puppies to be born, the stress and trepidation when they're still not there by dawn....
I've never felt the heartache of a little life in my hands, a darling little puppy who weighs just a few grams!!

Should you do this instead of that? Or just pray to God? Alone you fight, and hope one day he'll grow into a dog, bring joy to another being and make a house a home. You know it's all just up to you, you fight this fight alone.

Formula, bottle, heating pads you've got to get this right. Two hourly feeds for this little mite throughout the day and night.
In your heart you know it, you'll surely lose the fight to save this little baby, but God willing, you just might save the little mite....

Day one he's in there fighting. You say a silent prayer. Day two and three he's doing well, with lots of loving care.
Day four and five - he's still alive your hopes soar to the heavens! Day six he slips away again, dies in your hands day seven.

You take this little angel and bury him alone, with aching heart and burning tears, (and an exhausted groan),
You ask yourself, Why do this? Why suffer all the pain? But see the joy that puppies bring - it really self explains!

So, when you think of breeders and label them with "greed". Think what they sometimes endure to fill another's need
And when you buy a puppy, with dollars and cents you part. You only pay with money...we pay with our hearts.

Where to Bury A Dog

If you bury him in this spot, he will come to you when you call. Come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well remembered path to  your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel, they shall not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he belongs there. People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them for you shall know something that is hidden from them and which is well worth the knowing. The one best place then to bury a dog, is in the HEART of his master.  ~author unknown~

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