oldwoodsman
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How do you handle singletons for play/socialization if you have a sole survivor in your litters. I have a 4 week old sole survivor (litter or 7 that were born as strays, momma had no interest in her puppies, 3 taken out by birds of prey, 1 to aspiration pneumonia before making it to us, then 2 to parvovirus at 2 weeks of age). Our sole survivor was transferred to a different room and whelping pen in our house (good thing I have spare whelping pens).
We have not yet allowed her interaction with our other dogs who are usually good about playing with puppies because we normally don’t start allowing till 6 weeks of age. Of additional concern is that we now consider the house contaminated, and whereas we have washed the floors with both rescue and parvasol 2. I can help but worry if the dogs have it on their pads (we are not allowing anyone into the room she is in). She did start her vaccinations at 4 weeks of age per the exposure table (table 2 of the WSAVA vaccination guidelines), but I am trying to gauge the best trade offs for safety (she survived the 2 week incubation period post exposure to her siblings) vs socializing with other dogs. All other dogs are fully vaccinated.
She is regularly handled by myself and my wife (she and siblings were bottle fed, such a dead beat momma).
Anyone been in a similar situation and have any advice to give?
My only other singleton litter had momma and puppies dumped on the side or a road at approximately 6 weeks of age, one pup fell into a culvert, momma couldn’t get him out, went looking for a human, found one, dragged them back to where her other puppies had all been hit by cars but the one was still stuck in the culvert, but he was older and had more time with his siblings. Hers all died by 2 weeks.
We have not yet allowed her interaction with our other dogs who are usually good about playing with puppies because we normally don’t start allowing till 6 weeks of age. Of additional concern is that we now consider the house contaminated, and whereas we have washed the floors with both rescue and parvasol 2. I can help but worry if the dogs have it on their pads (we are not allowing anyone into the room she is in). She did start her vaccinations at 4 weeks of age per the exposure table (table 2 of the WSAVA vaccination guidelines), but I am trying to gauge the best trade offs for safety (she survived the 2 week incubation period post exposure to her siblings) vs socializing with other dogs. All other dogs are fully vaccinated.
She is regularly handled by myself and my wife (she and siblings were bottle fed, such a dead beat momma).
Anyone been in a similar situation and have any advice to give?
My only other singleton litter had momma and puppies dumped on the side or a road at approximately 6 weeks of age, one pup fell into a culvert, momma couldn’t get him out, went looking for a human, found one, dragged them back to where her other puppies had all been hit by cars but the one was still stuck in the culvert, but he was older and had more time with his siblings. Hers all died by 2 weeks.