The puppy is bottle fed on Lactol but, fails to pick up.  Do u think she ever will?  She does not go for the bottle and sometimes we feed her drop by drop.  Has anyone had a puppy that has lasted this long and not picked up???

> Has anyone had a puppy that has lasted this long and not picked up???

Yes, but unfortunately it became obvious that I shouldn't go on trying, and I asked vet to PTS.

Yes I had it with this litter I have now though she did drink from mom herself,is your baby able to drink off mom?
Is she putting on any weight at all,we weigh in grams so I can keep a close eye on the slightest drop in weight.
She would only put a few grams on a day,seemed well in herself just dinky.
I worried myself silly but now she is like a stick of dynamite at 6 weeks old,just a bit smaller
but it was when we started weaning that we saw the light at the end of the tunnel.
Good luck and I shall keep my fingers crossed for you.

its a hard one because this has happend with 2 different litters 1 of them had to be pts and the other pup was ok just alot smaller and like the other poster said once weaning started she grow very fast but was always the smallst ...good luck i hope she does ok x

>> Has anyone had a puppy that has lasted this long and not picked up???
> Yes, but unfortunately it became obvious that I shouldn't go on trying, and I asked vet to PTS.

Ditto, for 11 days

ive had this in one litter and it went on the be a monster pup and full of vigour, but in another litter I wished I hadnt as it was never right and always sickly for rest of life :( Hard decision!

yes, me too and sadly she died at 3 weeks, i tried in vain, feeding every 2 hrs and although stronger she never grew AT ALL, i knew in my heart that she wasnt meant to be but felt i had to try. Another i knew wasnt right and i made the hard choice to let him go as it was likely that he could be a very sickly puppy when older (which has been said on here already) so i decided to pts, but an extremely hard decision to make. :(

I have Puglet, who did not put on weight until she was 4 weeks old, when she "zoomed up" from just under 3 oz to 4 oz!  4 oz at 4 weeks is still a very small pup.  I do feel she was worth all the effort, and would not part with her for the world, but she is not what everyone would consider a pug should be!  She is 8 years old now, and strangely, having had allsorts of birth defects and near death experiences when tiny she has only had 2 vets visits due to a problem (both  just a cough,  but have ot take gret care with her) in the last 7 years.

Hi, I had this problem with one of my litters, I was feeding them whelpi every two hours and no weight gain, which really stressed me out, I then phoned the vets and swopped my milk for royal canine, the pups gained weight almost before my eyes. So if I was you I wouldn't give up, the pup sounds like a real fighter just change your milk asap!! Also with regard to taking a few drops of milk at a time, I usually find that they do that if they are constipated so make sure you are stimulating them until you see something being passed.

Good luck Susan

Me and my mum hand reared 7 yorkies from 2 weeks old and they all survived :)

You breed Yorkies too?

Once I did but my baby girl did'nt cope too well so she became a pet. That was 23 years ago :)

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