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TREATING DIARRHEA
Feed boiled
chicken, shredded (NO SKIN) mixed in with plain rice. feed VERY small
amounts 6 or so times a day, a couple tablespoons each time. Just enough
so she won't throw it up. If she does throw up, cut her back.
You can also try a boiled egg mashed with
rice.
Right now you want to keep the food very
bland, with no fat/ grease or olive oil to upset her tummy. You can also
boil extra lean hamburger skimming off all fat and liquid and mixing it
with rice. Freeze the liquid from the chicken or ground beef and you can add
it to their food when they are better.
For variety, you can also feed plain pasta
instead of rice. Keep in mind the rice/ pasta might constipate the dog.
Don't worry, this too shall pass
DO NOT FEED ANY COOKIES OR TREATS AT THIS TIME.
She will lose
weight but don't worry. You can get the fat back when she is better....
Make sure lots of fresh water is available.
Change the water many times during the day.
*** In fact a better idea
instead of water is buy some UNFLAVORED pedialite for babies from your
pharmacy or grocery store (in the baby section). It's full of
electrolytes that the dog will need due to
losing them through vomiting and diarrhea.
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A TALE FOR A BREEDER
I love my little puppy, he makes my
house a home, he always is my best friend, I never feel alone. He makes me
smile, he makes me laugh, he fills my heart with love. Did some breeder
breed him? Was he sent from heaven above?
I've never been a breeder, or seen life
through their eyes. I hold my little puppy, just sit and criticize. I've
never know their anguish, I've never felt their pain, the caring of their charges, through snow or wind or rain. I've never waited all night long for
puppies to be born, the stress and trepidation when they're still not there
by dawn...
I've never felt the heartache of a little life in my hands, a darling little
puppy who weighs just a few grams!! Should you do this instead of that? Or
just pray to God? Alone you fight, and hope one day he'll grow into a dog,
bring joy to another being and make a house a home. You know it's all just
up to you, you fight this fight alone.
Formula, bottles, heating pads, you've
got to get this right. Two hourly feeds for this little mite throughout the
day and night.
In your heart you know it, you'll surely lose the fight to save this little
baby, but God willing, you just might save the little mite....
Day one he's in there fighting. You say
a silent prayer. Day two and three he's doing well, with lots of loving
care.
Day four and five - he's still alive your hopes soar to the heavens! Day six
he slips away again, dies in your hands day seven.
You take this little angel and bury him
alone, with aching heart and burning tears, (and an exhausted groan).
You ask yourself, Why do this? Why suffer all the pain? But seeing the joy that
puppies bring - it really self explains! So, when you think of breeders and
label them with "greed". Think what they sometimes endure to fill another's need.
And when you buy a puppy, with dollars and cents you part. You only pay with
money ... we pay with our hearts.
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