Hypoglycemia / Low blood sugar-- If you are going to become a toy dog owner you will want to familiarize yourself and all other family members with the symptoms of Hypoglycemic Shock. Hypoglycemia is when the blood sugar levels (glucose) fall well below normal. Glucose is what the body uses as fuel and is necessary for the brain tissue and muscles to function. Hypoglycemia is often seen in toy breeds, and frequently in young toy puppies. It can cause your puppy to become confused, disoriented, drowsy, have the shivers, stagger about, collapse, fall into a coma, or have seizures. Typical signs are listlessness, depression, staggering gait, muscular weakness, and tremors -- especially of the face. Puppies with a severe drop in the blood sugar develop seizures or become lethargic and go into a coma. Some puppies may only exhibit weakness or a wobbly gait, and casionally a puppy that seemed just fine is found in a coma. Most of the time the symptoms can be controlled by eating, or by giving some glucose such as honey water to the puppy. If not treated it can result in death.
Dawn's Yorkies Feeding Schedule:
Feeding Schedule: The puppies are on an every four hour feeding schedule. Once they are older it can change to three feedings every five hours.
There are fed at: 7am, 11am, 3pm & 7pm
We feed our pups Pedigree Puppy Food. The pups are on an every (4) four hour feeding schedule. Each home is different and you should adjust the schedule to fit your own. Trying not to stray too far from what they are used to. It is very important to remember that each pup's needs are different and you may need to make adjustments to their feeding schedule in order to satisfy their individual needs while doing your best stick to a set schedule. They should be given 4-5 small meals per day. It is important that you do not skip any meals. In order to prevent Hypoglycemic shock you must not to let them go without a meal for any longer than five hours throughout the day. Which can be hart since leaving food and water our or in the cage during the day will only interfere with the potty training process.
Once they eat they will need to relieve themselves so off to the papers or outdoors with them you go. Remember to nevr put them into their cage until they have gone potty or they will potty in their cage. Once this occurs, it's hard to break them of this bad habit. We always make sure that they receive their last meal by no later than 7pm each night. This allows them plenty of time to relieve themselves before going down for the night. Scheduled feedings also means schedules potty time. (They eat,they pee, they poo). It is important to stick to a schedule of feeding and not just put the food down for the pup to eat at will or free feed. You will find that by doing so, that the pup is relieving themselves all over your home. By allowing the pup to free feed also makes it harder to get them potty trained.
Getting yourself and your family into a set feeding and potty time routine is the best way to train your new pup. Remember that the pup can only hold the pee and poo for so long, so please be very attentive to their potty signals during the day and cries in the night. For the most part they do sleep through the night, but they will need to go out to potty during the night for several months. I would suggest "not" putting any news papers in their cage only because news papers signal to them that it's potty time. Once you establish a feeding and potty routine you will find that it becomes much easier to enjoy your new puppy. It will take up to about 6 – 8 months to get your new puppy properly potty trained, so be prepared for everyone to lend a helping hand.
It is our goal to have each of the pups eating dry kibble before they leave our home. Before the age of eight weeks old they are usually eating dry kibble. Some do not adapted to the dry kibble stage as well as others or during the transition to their new surroundings get finicky. If during the first few days of being in your home you feel that they are not eating properly be sure to have some moistened kibble on hand. You do this by watering down the kibble the night before or at least 1-2 hours before their next scheduled feeding. Or you may also try moistening the dry kibble with a small amount of can puppy food while at the same time trying to maintain the goal of eating only dry kibble.
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