For the past week, we have been feeding Tucker boiled chicken I ground up in the food processer mixed with mashed sweet potatoes. We started mixing the puppy chow back in to see how things went. He started getting diarrhea again. He had an appointment at the vet this morning to get his second set of shots (DHLPPC minus the lepto and bordetella) . The vet also gave us Panacur to give him, 3 syringes to be given for three consecutive days. We also changed his food. We are feeding him Nutro Natural Choice Small Breed Puppy Formula. They want us to give him 1.5 times the normal amount because he is a little underweight, as I suspected. He is 10 weeks old today and he weighed 4lbs 15oz. The vet said he definitely does not have any chihuahua in him. Being just about 5lbs at 10 weeks (and that's being underweight) he definitely is not going to be under 10lbs as an adult! And frankly, that's perfectly ok with us
Milo is 18lbs and I know Tucker won't be any bigger than that. They are already total BFF's!
He seems unhappy this afternoon after having his shots. The vet said he might be a little sorer than some because he doesn't have much body fat. Poor pup! Going forward we are going to scrap everything the foster family told us and move forward with what we know now. So hopefully the new food does better for him. The vet wants us to discontinue sweet potatoes but I'm not sure I want to do that, I don't want him to go back to having horrible diarrhea
A pic of my poor pup, tired out after his vet visit and some play time!
He seems unhappy this afternoon after having his shots. The vet said he might be a little sorer than some because he doesn't have much body fat. Poor pup! Going forward we are going to scrap everything the foster family told us and move forward with what we know now. So hopefully the new food does better for him. The vet wants us to discontinue sweet potatoes but I'm not sure I want to do that, I don't want him to go back to having horrible diarrhea
A pic of my poor pup, tired out after his vet visit and some play time!
