Hi Bill,
I had a bitch who developed mastitis very suddenly, she had a lot of milk
and only two puppies so I had been adjusting her diet accordingly and
expressing milk when I felt she was in danger of caking up this term
means a hardening in the breast which makes it unattractive to newborns and
Bill,
We encountered in one of our girls almost the same scenario you have
discribed in your dog.
It was just one breast, and the vet cultured it to find e-coli.
At four weeks of age those puppies already have sharp teeth and we feel that
a puppy punctured mom's breast, which in turn left it open