Hope you read this after your precious nap, Salamander.
We have a new pup, too: 9 week old American Akita male. Right now, he is sleeping, but that was after an 2-hour romp as psycho-puppy, the Sharkita. He is healthy and intact and we are still sleep-deprived because of potty training and constant watching.
Yours is so young. Even 8-week old pups shake and shiver when frightened or confused. They get cold so easily, too.
Hope she recovers. All pups get worms. I know our breeder worms them 3x before they leave Mom and then, we will have to worm him whenever he eats something he shouldn’t (knowing puppies, this can be often).
What are you feeding? 6 weeks is old enough for puppy chow soup along w/mom’s milk. Have you tried any baby food? A few teaspoons of babyfood meat packs a lot of protein. Hand feeding direct from your fingers can work.
She was eating Hills Science diet canned food but I just switched her to Taste of The Wild Puppy, soaked to mush.
She gobbles it down!
The stupid breeders were expecting her to eat cheap ‘confetti’ dog food with no soaking and tiny, useless baby teeth.
She’s gotten better enough to be acutely aware now that her siblings and mom aren’t here and cries for them often.
My heart breaks.
Puppies should stay with their litter *at least* 8 weeks, preferably 10 or 12.
But, it is what it is.
If she’d stayed there 2 more ~hours~, we’d be having a memorial thread for her, instead.
I barely got her to the e-vet in time, as it was.
[she was on her way *out*]
I am going to try to get a video of her running around for you all, so you can see how far she’s come in such a short time.
Truly, it is a miracle.