Usually it is from bad breeding for the so called teacup chi. Peggy -------Original Message------- From: [email protected] Date: 8/7/2013 2:38:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] A couple more questions, please That's the very 1st thing the vet checked for when I took my Chi pup in for a check-up. I told her, "Nope, she doesnt have one" as soon as I saw her feeling her head lol is there any rhyme or reason as to which pups have that soft spot? Or is it just random? Mitzi Oklahoma .
On Aug 7, 2013, at 1:28 AM, GinbarMinPins <[email protected]> wrote: Molera is a soft spot in some Chihuahuas skulls and people pups too. It is where the skull has not completly closed so only skin and membrane sheilds the brain. Your vet would know if your pup had one and should have warned you. Nutrical is a food substitute for ill or non eating dogs much like Ensure. It is a calorie packed gel and you should use it after offering food or if she gets hard to wake. Honey rubbed on gums is quicker to get sugar to the bloodstream and Nutrical backs it up just as a peanut butter sandwhich on whole wheat does diabetic people. Chihuahuas and really tiny pups are notoriusly bad eaters. Alice was hand fed when her first owner bought her from a BYB at 8weeks and for two weeks after I adopted her at 7 mos. Monte was handfed for his first 2 weeks with me and he is 4 yrs old-. I read a book Pups in a Teacup and the author, a vet, explains many wee pups do not have the instinctual need to eat to survive that say a German Shepherd pup has. Very tiny Chihuahua pups and Yorkie etc that people wrongly call teacup size are kept by reputable breeders for 3 mos because of the many problems they can have. Ask your vet your best way to go or if there is a reputable breeder you can ask them. Really tiny pups can not eat much at one time so need to be fed several times a day. Nutrical has instructions for how much to give as a food substitue and as an additive..two diff amounts.
