VMD 513: Pet animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

ARTIFICIAL BREAST FEEDING

• The mother's milk is not the same as cow milk, therefore it is not enough to get up every two hours and refill the puppy's bottles.
• The puppies need a kind of milk that can be digested correctly and that covers all their nutritional necessities.
• The puppies must be fed in a place which is calm, warm and emotionally alike to the one which the female would have chosen.
• Puppy's breast feed more than twenty times a day; this means that feeding the puppies will be intense.
• Puppies drink little by little, and if you give them too much to drink at once they will have diarrhea.
• The ideal thing is to reduce the number of times they feed a day during the next couple of weeks. At first we will feed them every two hours, except when we are sleeping.
• The milk is made with boiled water that has cooled down. To feed the puppies you will need to use a baby's bottle.
• A puppy must not feed for more than fifteen minutes, remember that they will drink and drink, so you must stop them. You will simply have to behave like if you were the puppy's mother, without exceeding yourself.