Puppy pooping blood

[RiverOtter]

Do you still need a list of local vets? You can feed him with a mixture of one egg mixed in to one cup of goat milk, if you can get it. Homogonized cow's milk from the store is fine, but if you have fresh milk, you have to skim it. You can soak a little bread in it, but bread or oatmeal shouldn't be more than 1/4 of his diet, at the absolute max. He can also have chopped meat, raw (except pork), but no hard dog food - the grain in it will tear up his little tummy.

Since he's already had a bad time with solids, you'll want to keep him on this diet past the point where a normal pup would be weaned.

 

[Manuel742]

So its ok if i give him cow milk? We milk everyday here so we do have fresh cow milk.
Thanks i found a couple vets here.

I will start feeding him a better diet, thanks for your advice.

 

[Daisycar]

Cow's milk is not good for puppies or kittens because it can cause digestive problems like allergies, vomiting, diarrhea...

 

[cassie]

Do you still need a list of local vets? You can feed him with a mixture of one egg mixed in to one cup of goat milk, if you can get it. Homogonized cow's milk from the store is fine, but if you have fresh milk, you have to skim it. You can soak a little bread in it, but bread or oatmeal shouldn't be more than 1/4 of his diet, at the absolute max. He can also have chopped meat, raw (except pork), but no hard dog food - the grain in it will tear up his little tummy.

Since he's already had a bad time with solids, you'll want to keep him on this diet past the point where a normal pup would be weaned.

Skimming milk is going to make things worse. Dogs are lactose intolerant, which is why milk gives so many of them the squirts. Lactose is found in the milk but not in the cream. That said, many dogs and puppies can tolerate canned milk. I have raised many orphaned puppies on a formula made up primarily of slightly diluted evaporated milk.

 

[RiverOtter]

Guys, I hate to break it to you, but the whole milk is bad thing is a myth. If puppies and kittens can't have milk, what do you think they nurse from their mothers? Some adults can't tolerate it, but it's more often a diet change or amount issue - milk is a concentrated food, not a beverage and should be fed as such. My dogs and cats are used to a varied diet and it doesn't trouble them at all. I milk a cow and 3 goats; and 3 dogs and a dozen cats all get some.

Yes, dog's milk is a bit different from cow's milk, but it's mostly in the fat. Which is why you want to skim milk straight from the cow, but milk that's been homogonized (which is the breaking down of the fat structure so the cream doesn't rise) is ok. Also why canned milk is ok - it's been heated to where the fat structure changes. Also, skimming fresh milk by hand does not give you the same product as mechanically skimmed milk from the store. And when someone who milks their own cow skims milk, they let it sit overnight to rise, which gives all manner of beneficial cultures time to work.

So anyway, do what you feel is best for your own animals. But do it from a place of knowledge. Dogs were raised on the diet I suggested before the invention of cheap extruded kibble - at least for those that couldn't afford canned horse meat And if there's one thing a 4 week old puppy absolutely should not have, it's extruded kibble and all that sandpapery corn in it that shreds their tiny intestines.