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I have a 11 wk ol pup thats started losing weight. Now i know what your thinking but let me give you the low down on her first. lol

This pup is upto date on shots, wormings, on Vitamins,and been given Nutri Cal, teasted by my Vet for Tape, coccidia,Giardia,and blood work for anything else he can find and showed up nothing?????????

She has been on puppy chow sense she was able to eat {4 wks old}, i have been mixing warm rice and chicken with her chow and she eats like a pig. Jumps around like nothing wrong but looks skinny as a rail fence. All 7 of her litter mates are fat as bears and she eats her share at meal times and then some. Plus she drinks plenty of water????????

Her stool is solid, no blood, worms, ect.

I did sometime back catch her eating poop so i started given them stuff that the vet gave me to add to there food{ which now i give them all Pineapple Chunks that does the same thing} and got that stop.

But she doesn't seem to be putting on weight at all.
Is there something i haven't tried to put the weight on her?

Thanks for any help.
Donnie

Oh by the way they are on a concrete pad which is bleached and washed daily along with there dog house. And new bedding changed daily also.Ceder Shavings.

Try peanut butter, I would make her a peanut butter sandwich so she don't choke on the peanut butter. Peanut butter has a lot of protein and fats.

There just might be something wrong with the pup like it's digestive system is not absorbing all the nutrients it needs to grow and develop, but I would try the peanut butter and see if that don't help.

Well guy's I am new to the site but not to running hounds, you mention the rest of the pups are gaining weight, are they all eating puppy chow. One of my buddy's had a young dog that would eat its own weight a day and not gain. Vet did a stool check for nutrients left in the stool and found none, dog was not getting enough from the puppy chow. He changed foods and she started gaining almost over night.

Peanut butter sounds like a good idea and i have never tried it, sounds like it might work.

If that fells i will change her to a different puppy chow cause they all are eating the same kind.

I'm just at a lost on this one guy's i have had many litters but i have never seen when it i could find a problem, or fatten one up, and what really got me was when the Vet couldn't either.i was already doing what he suggested except to change her puppy chow?

anyway i went to feed them this evening and she still skinny as ever but i stayed to watch her eat and she was in there downing it like the rest, watched her drink some water and go back for another belly full, then take her dump which looked as healthy as the others and go back to the bowl and tank up again. i refilled there bowls before i left so they would have extra over night.

Thats some good input guy's keep it coming.
Thanks
Donnie

Plat, I've had a few that I could not keep in good flesh no matter what. I simply sold or gave away the dogs because it is not worth the trouble. People who mean well, but don't know poo about dogs, will turn you in for animal cruelty.

I have managed to salvage a few. My best female was a skeleton when I got her, and went thru another down cycle (near death) later, came out of it and now is fat and sassy.

If a dog is well nourished (good meat, not kibble), housed, exercised, free of internal and external parasites, and still looks anorexic do yourself a favor and let someone else own that dog.

LARRY ---I have had [2] coonhounds over the years that look like you pull skin over their bones ---VETS or VET COLLEGE couldn't find anything wrong ---did everything nothing worked -and they would eat like a horse --one thing I don't agree with you is ---DON'T GIVE THEM AWAY ----[[[[[[[[-------let the vet or you put down---]]]]]]]]

that is why some dogs do good on one kind of food and other don't [[[[---I like hot peppers the hoter the better --and they tear you up in sides -----some people can't drink MILK ---etc.

is she in a pen with others if so try feeding alone i had this problem bfor swiched to lamb and rice nutro it did wonders

I have been feeding her by herself for over a month with not much change, but it seems that she is coming around now not all skin and bones as she was but still not like the others.
It's just strange to me how a pup eats like she does and is treated as well as she is and won't but the weight on no more than she has.
i guess i am a lot different than most,but i find it a challenge to bring a dog or a pup around, like i said i never seen one i couldn't fatten up but she has really made me work to bring her around, but it seems to be paying off, she is coming on slowly but surely.
She is my youngest son's pick from the litter so i hope she turns out to be all he expects or see's in her.
Oh by the way she love peanut butter to. hahaha

Or maybe it's just her metabolism. She just burns up the calories. My 2 dogs look like fatty & skinny- One female I can't get her to put on any weight & the other , if I give her 2 bites of dogfood more than the usual & she doesn't get enough excercise, she'll gain 2 pounds. And I feed her less than the skinny one. Dogs, just like people, have diff. metabolisms. If she acys normal & she's growing, I wouldn't worry about her TOO much right now, I'd just keep watching her real close.

Plat one thing that has worked for me is white loaf bread. If you can get the dog to eat it. Some will and some won't. My feeling is, no matter how good a dog is I'm not going to nursemaid it any more. Now for you it might be different, I don't keep high dollar competition dogs just rabbit hounds and they are expendable. i admit I do get fond of some, and at others, but I'm gettin' too old to fuss over some fussy, finicky, sickly little problem dog when I can have well mannered easy keepers.