I recently bred for a litter of hog dogs. Everything went wonderful with pregnancy and birth. I have been blessed with 12 chubby bundles of joy and a healthy caring mother dog. We have 4 adult dogs and apparent problems started after weaning the puppies. They have gotten more mobile and exploring their world and my two male dogs hate them.
They growl whenever they come near and even try to get in their pen and steal their food. Camo, one on my male dogs, goes it their area and growls and bites at them and started refusing to eat his own food. So I relocated where the adult dogs are fed and monitor the puppies 4 times a day while they eat and then remove the food to remove the problem.
Well it got worse and I was afraid the big dogs would hurt the puppies so I chained Camo up and kept my other male inside away from them. Apparently camo bit a puppy on the head in their pen when a neighbor boy was there. Twice puppies hot near him on his chain and he nipped them. So I had to chain him up inside my garden where they can't get to him.
My larger older male, who is the sire, bit two of them just for going near him and put a puncture in ones lip. So now I have to supervise the large dogs at all times when outside.
It gets worse....my husband let the big dogs out in the morning and came back to bed. When I woke up and went to feed the puppies there was blood on the light colored ones and I began to investigate. What I found was so horrid I almost broke down. Still I am wrenched with grief, pain, and a sense of failure.
One puppy had its eye ruptured and puncture wounds, another had a swollen cheek and puncture wounds. I didn't think to look in his mouth until tonight because of an odd smell and his poor little jaw is broken!!! His top jaw where his chewing teeth are is broke loose from the roof of his mouth and just awful.
By a stroke of luck my husband won a thousand dollars in a raffle at work yesterday. I will now be able to take them to a vet tomorrow. I have been taking care of these puppies at home since the incident and I feel absolutely horrible. I feel like this is all my fault and that my dogs are out of control. I just can't handle or stand this aggression in my males and part of that money is going to them getting neutered!
When I saw inside this puppies mouth my heart broke. They are acting playful, eating, drinking, and in good spirits but I know they are in pain and I know these injuries will change their lives forever. I feel like now they won't have a fair chance in life or be able to fulfill their purpose for being created, to hunt wild pigs.
I guess I'm just looking for encouragement, advice, an *** chewing, or anything at this point. I'm so upset and wish I could undo their hurt and make them better.
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They growl whenever they come near and even try to get in their pen and steal their food. Camo, one on my male dogs, goes it their area and growls and bites at them and started refusing to eat his own food. So I relocated where the adult dogs are fed and monitor the puppies 4 times a day while they eat and then remove the food to remove the problem.
Well it got worse and I was afraid the big dogs would hurt the puppies so I chained Camo up and kept my other male inside away from them. Apparently camo bit a puppy on the head in their pen when a neighbor boy was there. Twice puppies hot near him on his chain and he nipped them. So I had to chain him up inside my garden where they can't get to him.
My larger older male, who is the sire, bit two of them just for going near him and put a puncture in ones lip. So now I have to supervise the large dogs at all times when outside.
It gets worse....my husband let the big dogs out in the morning and came back to bed. When I woke up and went to feed the puppies there was blood on the light colored ones and I began to investigate. What I found was so horrid I almost broke down. Still I am wrenched with grief, pain, and a sense of failure.
One puppy had its eye ruptured and puncture wounds, another had a swollen cheek and puncture wounds. I didn't think to look in his mouth until tonight because of an odd smell and his poor little jaw is broken!!! His top jaw where his chewing teeth are is broke loose from the roof of his mouth and just awful.
By a stroke of luck my husband won a thousand dollars in a raffle at work yesterday. I will now be able to take them to a vet tomorrow. I have been taking care of these puppies at home since the incident and I feel absolutely horrible. I feel like this is all my fault and that my dogs are out of control. I just can't handle or stand this aggression in my males and part of that money is going to them getting neutered!
When I saw inside this puppies mouth my heart broke. They are acting playful, eating, drinking, and in good spirits but I know they are in pain and I know these injuries will change their lives forever. I feel like now they won't have a fair chance in life or be able to fulfill their purpose for being created, to hunt wild pigs.
I guess I'm just looking for encouragement, advice, an *** chewing, or anything at this point. I'm so upset and wish I could undo their hurt and make them better.
