Hello. We have 2 puppies who’s mom isn’t developing milk so they must be bottle fed. We have puppy milk replacer and they’re 3 days old now. One is losing weight and one is only maintaining it.
The vet said to try to get them to feed more, which we’d already been doing without any success on weight gain.
A breeder we happened to meet said a little bit of cow’s milk can help them gain weight.
I haven’t given them any yet because online says it could cause dehydration if they start vomiting and getting diarrhea from lactose intolerance.
I just wanted to ask this subreddit what they think I should do, since we don’t actually know if the information given to us by the stranger who said they were a breeder is reliable and have no other helpful options to go on.
Should I put a little cows milk in their formula? Should I give them something else? Should I force feed them with a syringe? I’m trying my absolute best for these babies and I don’t want anything to happen to them due to misinformation or my own doing of not gathering enough information.
The vet said to try to get them to feed more, which we’d already been doing without any success on weight gain.
A breeder we happened to meet said a little bit of cow’s milk can help them gain weight.
I haven’t given them any yet because online says it could cause dehydration if they start vomiting and getting diarrhea from lactose intolerance.
I just wanted to ask this subreddit what they think I should do, since we don’t actually know if the information given to us by the stranger who said they were a breeder is reliable and have no other helpful options to go on.
Should I put a little cows milk in their formula? Should I give them something else? Should I force feed them with a syringe? I’m trying my absolute best for these babies and I don’t want anything to happen to them due to misinformation or my own doing of not gathering enough information.