If you want to save your orphaned puppies you must be totally dedicated to them on a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week basis for the first few weeks of life. Raising orphaned puppies is the most challenging and taxing task any breeder could undertake. Success is gratifying.
Maintain the puppies in an incubator environment with a temperature of at least 90 degrees Fahrenheit to start out. Reduce the temperature to 85 degrees after three or four successful days and you see the puppies are stable. Slowly decline the temperature by small increments. After a week the temperature can be slowly declined to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Maintain this temperature until the puppies are three to four weeks of age. After four weeks the temperature may be reduced to 75 degrees.
Orphaned puppies are prime candidates for failure-to-thrive syndrome. Under normal conditions, the puppy is bumped and shoved instinctively with litter mates. These natural instincts insure that the puppies use their body, pushing toward the dam for nursing, pushing in rivalry against litter mates. The dam vigorously washes her offspring, cleaning the puppies and bringing about elimination. This tactile stimulation is crucial to the development of a strong healthy puppy.
You must effect stimulation by gentle periodic stroking with one or two fingers, awakening the puppies directly prior to feeding. During feeding periods it is necessary to snuggle the puppies to simulate the same type of nurturing the dam would have provided. You become a surrogate dam to orphaned puppies.
Puppies are born with sealed eyes. The puppy is unable to hear at birth. You as the surrogate dam will need to artificially stimulate the orphaned puppy to defecate and urinate. You can do this easily by using a cotton swab dipped in baby oil. Gently swab the genitalia and anus area until the puppy urinates and defecates. The surrogate dam must stimulate puppies to elimination on the same regular basis as feeding intervals. The orphaned puppy must be stimulated to urinate and defecate at each feeding interval until able to independently perform these functions.
Consult with your vet as to which puppy milk formula you should use, and the type of feeding method.
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