I wonder if any of you can offer me any advice regarding my nearly 3 week old pups (19 days today).

All are feeding well and putting on weight but don't seem to be pooing on a regular basis and I'm wondering if they are constipated. That is my first worry. They are active and rush to the milk bar when Mum goes in to feed them and they feed happily, but after some do seem rather whingy, as if they've got belly ache, and wander round the edge of the whelping box squealing. Mum is toileting them but they only seem to be peeing. Two in particular are breathing rapidly, sort of panting, and I'm not sure how normal/abnormal this is. It's only my 2nd litter and I don't remember these problems with no. 1 litter. The room is at a constant 72 degrees.

I gave them all a small amount of cooled boiled water earlier on but that hasn't made any difference. I've also tried stimulating them myself and can only get them to pee. Yesterday and today they have had a single serving of a small amount of raw minced beef - could this be a problem? I have started this earlier than usual, and also did with my last litter, as Mum is becoming less willing to feed them (I presume teeth coming through?). All happily took the meat.

They are due to be wormed but I'm not sure whether this is likely to help or hinder the current situation? Mum was Panacured from day 40 to 2 days post whelping so I can't imagine there is a heavy worm burden.

They should have been wormed at 2weeks old so I would go ahead and do it now and see if that helps.

Going from the dams milk to minced beef might just be too much for them to cope with at this age. Was the mince frozen before use?

Hope things settle down soon.

I hope you have had some poops by now.
I had issues with a pup pooping, he would only go max twice a day and that was with quite a lot of stimulation from me.

I was told Lactulose is ok to give to pups and to give water as well.
I was also told to worm him as this would be likely to make him looser&worms could be the cause of his poop issues.

No, still no poops. But they all seem fine and have now been wormed, so I'll see if that has any effect. If not I may just contact the vet and see what they say, but thought I'd be better off getting information from the experienced breeders on here.

If you do a search on constipated puppy in the bottom search field (the one that searches older posts too) quite a lot of info comes up :).

Thanks Noora, I had already looked at the Google sitesearch. Overnight we have had one pup poo. I can only think Mum is cleaning them before I can see any evidence, as all are playing and seem happy enough now (I think they may have been too hot when I first posted).

I will probably be complaining about the amount of poo in a couple of weeks!