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Today has been busy! The foster mum of the 6 pups has sadly got an infection in her uterus so her milk is drying up. One of the pups has died and one puppy was at deaths door when we arrived. The vet nurse declared him dead later but when I went over to see there was still a flicker of life there. I rubbed him in a blanket and got him warm using a hot water bottle. I gave him 5ml of milk which took about 30 mins as I was being very careful because he had no sucking reflex. I left him for 2 hours to warm up and when I came back he was a different puppy! He was warm and scoffed 7.5ml of milk. When have named him Rocky and we are hand raising him along with his sister Grace who was also looking a bit skinny. The other 3 are still on the foster mum and have nice big bellies.
So Grace and Rockey need feeding every 2 hours and Hank every 4 hours - no sleep for us!
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