List I am still getting caught up with my e-mail having just returned last night from a week in Paris. No, we were not on the flight with the guy with the would-be exploding shoe. We did experience about a four-hour delay with the flight departing from Paris but it had nothing to do with the would-be explosive shoe incident. It took us about 24 hours to get home but we're not complaining, just a little tired.
Having read several posts about newborns experiencing difficulty breathing, and not having had time to read all of them, I don't know if this is on point but I learned one potential solution to this problem at a recent Dr. Hutch seminar that I attended that is so simple I cannot resist sharing it at this time just in case someone on the list is blessed with a litter soon and can use this tip. Dr. Hutch observed that it is not unusual for puppies to be born with gurgling sounds coming from their lungs. He very much disapproves of the practice of placing the pup in your hand with its head down and then slinging your arm downward to expel fluids from the puppy's lungs. He recounts tales of people who have done this and dropped the puppy and, well, you can guess the rest. Instead, he recommends that, in addition to the bulb suction pump device that you can buy in any drug store to clear their nostrils and their mouths, if you have a puppy that sounds too gurgly for your comfort, loosely tape the puppy with masking tape around its middle to a yardstick or other narrow board, tummy down on the board, then place the board on an incline with the puppy's head pointed downward. He suggests you just leave the puppy this way, propped up inside the whelping box, while you're working on the rest of the litter, or doing something else, for a few minutes. He said you will be amazed at the amount of stuff you'll see draining down the length of the board, even if the pup accepts this treatment well. He also said that in many cases the puppy will become so annoyed by this that it will protest verbally, thus getting its lungs going and more fluid flowing out of the lungs if it is kept in this head down position for a few minutes. A simple, non-intrusive solution that I just had to share. Hope this helps somebody. Janice Dansby Oklahoma City ========================================================= "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.
