Hello everyone me again.

So my puppies are a week old today and for the last 2 days things hasn't been amazing. I noticed one puppy really straining to pee and I also noticed she had blood in her urine. (Mum is too exhausted to encourage them to go to the toilet so I do this with warm water and cotton wall). So I took the puppy to vets straight away. He had no clue as to what was wrong with the puppy but I asked him to give puppy synulox in case it was a water infection. He took puppy temp and it was 37.3 and said that was really low for a puppy her age. I thought that was normal temp for the breed I have. He was really reluctant in giving me the antibiotics as well. Anyway to cut a long story short, that same night after we came home from vets I noticed another female puppy have the same symptoms, so again first thing next day I took puppy to the vets and he advised to treat them both with the same antibiotic. However since then I have had more females puppies show the same symptoms and I'm really worrying now because I don't know what's causing it neither does vet. REALLY FRUSTANTING AS THEY CHARGING ME £85 for every visit. I have a litter of 6 females and 2 males but it's just females showing these symptoms. The puppies are putting weight on and are feeding from mum every 2 hours and sometimes I have to bottle feed as well as mum hasn't got too much milk.  Has anyone ever experienced this and can give some advise as to what I should do or where I'm going wrong please. Many thanks

Has the vet been able to get a urine sample to test?

I'd have to agree re your vet having a urine sample to test.   Secondly if the puppies are straining, perhaps this is causing some 'blood vessel' to burst?    In a week old puppy(ies) this is very odd to say nothing of being worrying.    I had an 8 week old puppy buy in who was peeing tons and a urine sample showed infection - she didn't respond to medication so I took her back after the vet started thinking bladder stones (in an 8 week puppy?).     The breeder wasn't impressed that I'd taken her back and plonked a cheque for a full refund at me when I'd thought she would get what was going on sorted out with her own vet!   She later told me she'd taken the other puppies she still had, to her vet and 'they were all the same'.   Hum.  I might have worked through what was going on with her except I'd just spent a couple of heartbreaking years seeing the last two of our homebred hounds through their cancers to the end.  And this was supposed to be a new beginning.    I don't know to this day quite what was going on except according to the KCBRs she sent to two more homes after mine!  Sad.

I had to help one of our litters to empty as mum would only cope with peeing, nothing else.   But we had no blood showing in either pee or stool.   I hope your vet can work out what's going on.

Took them back to vets again today and saw a different vet. She has done samples which showed a blood in urine.  apparently all I can do for now is treat them all with antibiotics and hope it clears in a weeks time. Some puppies have already improved so perhaps just urine infection as apparently according to the vets very common in female puppies, but vets can't be certain as at this age anything could be wrong.

I'm just so worried for them. Been spending hours and hours researching and not found much online.

It may be something as simple as Mum not cleaning the puppies enough or not licking them enough to stimulate them to wee, as the bitches urinary tracts are shorter than the dogs it predisposes them to infection and regular weeing helps to flush out the bladder. Hopefully this will sort itself out with the help of some antibiotic cover.

Do bitch puppies ever have a pseudo season? One of my daughter's had a "period" when she was a new born bloody terrified me seeing drops of blood in her nappy!), the health visitor assured me it can happen and is a reaction to my hormones which she was exposed to in utero leaving her system. All three of my newborns had milk leak from their nipples in the first few weeks too (even my son), another normal hormonal event. Does this happen in dogs? Are all the bitch puppies having some sort of pseudo season? Are they swollen looking?

> It may be something as simple as Mum not cleaning the puppies enough or not licking them enough to stimulate them to wee, as the bitches urinary tracts are shorter than the dogs it predisposes them to infection and regular weeing helps to flush out the bladder. Hopefully this will sort itself out with the help of some antibiotic cover.

At only a week old, there's no way I'd have thought this had anything to do with a pseudo anything and far more with infection, or as suggested above.    Hopefully antibiotics will sort it out - and again I'd be giving them a tiny amount of natural (unflavoured) yogurt - best if you can source goats yogurt - to counter the unwanted effects of the use of antibiotics.   This situation is way outside anything I've experienced with my puppies.

My concern would also be for the bitch, it's not really normal for mum to be so exhausted over a week from whelping that she doesn't clean or stimulate the puppies properly. Tired yes indeed but not exhausted, maybe she needs a check up too.

I would be very concerned if this was my bitch & pups.
It's not normal for a bitch to ignore her pups unless she knows there is something wrong.
Go back to vets with both bitch and all pups for check over & antibiotics.
If any of the pups are dehydrated get fluids injected under the skin for them just keep them warm feed them and keep everything crossed for the next 2 weeks.

Mum is very interested in her puppies. However she had a very traumatic birth experience. Hence why she's was so tired. Puppies are doing great.  Still on antibiotics and all of them have gained weight and opened their eyes today.

Many thanks