I prefer to use Just Born. I use either a bottle or I tube the puppy. Tubing is something you can learn from you vet. The emeregency clinic where I took my little one refused to tube him. Yet without tubing he would not have made it. He would not nurse, so I took him to my vet's the next day and he tubed him and got him started. I did that for a day or two and then he took to a bottle and finally mom. I only use tubing as a last resort. If the puppy will nurse at all a bottle, although time consuming, is safer. It takes a lot of work to get a nipple with the right size hole in it but once you do the puppy will drink a lot of milk. I use that same nipple until it wears out.
In my first Cavalier litter the mothers milk went bad and I had to bottle feed 4 puppies. It took all day and I actually had shifts of people who came over and gave me a break. I started them on food at 3 1/2 weeks. They all survived and Winston, the one I kept, will be 11 in Dec. There are other breeders who prefer to tube, but I don't like to do it. Cindy Roof ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
