Pet Care is a pet awareness initiative by Harwinder Garewal. Who is the owner of Garewal Pet Shop and Farm, Main Road, Adampur. In this video, he tells about taking care of newborn dog babies (puppies) without a mother in the Hindi Language.
Puppies are usually orphaned when the mother (dam) is not able to adequately care for her puppies. This may be because she cannot produce milk (a condition called agalactia) or because she has behavioral or psychological abnormalities, which prevent her from adequately caring for her puppies. In rare instances, the mother may actually not be present due to death, injury, or complications arising from a difficult birthing. Some puppies may be several weeks old before their mother becomes unable to care for them.
Another reason is that people buy or borrow puppies. Usually, this is the main reason. Because people sell or give puppies to their friends.
If you are in either of the above conditions and you want to take care of your pup, please follow following instructions:
1. Be ready to provide 24-hour care. If you have to hand rear a puppy, be prepared to provide hard work and commitment, especially in the first 2 weeks of the puppy’s life. They will require 24-hour care in the beginning.
a) You will probably need to take time off work to care for the puppies, as they will require near-constant care for the first 2 weeks.
b) Take this into consideration before breeding your bitch. If you can’t commit to caring for orphan pups then don’t breed the mother.
2. Purchase a milk substitute. If your puppies are orphans, you’ll need to provide them with a suitable replacement milk. The ideal is replacement bitch’s milk. This comes in a powdered form (Lactol) that is reconstituted with boiled water (very similar to the way baby’s formula is made).
a) The supplement is available from your veterinary clinic or major pet stores.
b) Do not use cow’s milk, goat’s milk, or human infant formula. These are not suitable formulas for puppies.
c) You can temporarily use a mix of evaporated milk and boiled water while you search for proper bitch replacement milk. Use 4 parts canned evaporated milk to 1 part boiled water for a feed.
3. Feed newborn puppies every 2 hours. Puppies need to suckle every 2 hours, which means that you need to feed them 12 times in 24 hours.
a) Follow the directions on the packaging to make up the milk substitute (typically 30 grams of powder is mixed with 105 ml of boiled water).
4. Use a bottle and teat designed for use with puppies. Teats designed for puppies are softer than ones designed for humans. These can be purchased from vet clinics and major pet stores.
a) In an emergency, you can use an eyedropper to feed milk to the puppy. However, this option should be avoided since there is a risk of giving the puppy too much air with the milk. This can cause his tummy to swell painfully
5. Let the puppy eat until he stops feeding. Follow the guidelines on the milk substitute packaging to determine approximately how much to feed the puppy. A good rule of thumb, however, is to allow the puppy to feed until he is no longer hungry. He will stop eating when he is full.
a) The puppy will likely fall asleep and then demand the next meal when he is hungry again, or in about 2-3 hours.
6. Sterilize all feeding equipment. Wash all equipment that you use for feeding the puppies and sterilize all of it. Use a liquid disinfectant designed for baby equipment, or a steam sterilizer.
a) Alternately, you can boil the equipment in water.
7. Give the puppy a worming product after 2 weeks. Dogs can carry worms and other parasites that can cause health problems, so it is recommended that you treat them with worming medicine as soon as the puppy is old enough. There are no worming products that are recommended for newborn puppies. However, fenbendazole (Panacur) is suitable from 2 weeks of age.
a) Panacur comes as a liquid wormer that can be gently syringed into the puppy’s mouth after a meal of milk. For each 1 kilogram of body weight, the dose is 2 ml daily by mouth. Give the wormer once a day for 3 days.
b) Also, ask for vaccination chart to your pet’s doctor. It is very necessary to provide good healthcare to pets.
8. Start immunizing the puppies at 6 weeks. Puppies acquire a certain level of immunity from their mother, but they need additional immunization to keep them healthy. Check with your veterinarian for an appropriate immunization schedule.
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