Life is not all roses and hearts in puppy land. Much to our dismay, they started to come down with pneumonia over the weekend and now all of them have it. They get antibiotics twice a day, plus 2-3 breathing treatments a day. This is in addition to the bottle feeding, which fortunately now only happens every 6 hours. The vet did not give us great odds for them making it; only about a 50/50 chance per pup. Those odds mean we will more than likely lose a couple of them, but we are fighting hard to keep them all alive.
They are actually doing better with this than I expected. For the most part, they are healthy pups- they sleep, play, eat, and use the potty like normal healthy pups. But they have this cough that sounds horrible, and the danger to them is basically asphyxiation. Which totally breaks my heart, so I am administering coupage to them (thumping their chests) many times a day to keep the stuff in there broken up and moving out. This weekend they will be starting the weaning process, and once they are off bottles their pneumonia and congestion should clear up. As long as they make it until then.
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Oh my goodness! So much to worry about. Only a few more days, right? Poor things.
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