Our new puppy is really sick

devotee

Fingers crossed for the pup to get better! I really feel for you.

welshmoneylover

Yeah, got my fingers and toes crossed as well.

A colleague in work collected her westie pup at 6 weeks, ouch!

Mrs_B

FC - your PM box is full

rachiee

Kimberley wrote: »

7 weeks seems so young. I got my pup at 12 weeks old and would never get one at 7 weeks. I do hope the pup recovers well, fingers crossed for you. Please anyone thinking of buying a pup if the breeder lets the pups go at 7 weeks insist that they hold onto them until at least 9-10 weeks old.

Its a normal thing in the breeding world.. if people want a puppy and they dont get it at the age its going at they are going to lose out. Our puppies will be 8 weeks when they are sold and thats a perfectly good age to be going as they will be eating solids at 3 weeks old and be mostly independent away from mum at 5 weeks old.

Kimberley

rachiee wrote: »

Its a normal thing in the breeding world.. if people want a puppy and they dont get it at the age its going at they are going to lose out. Our puppies will be 8 weeks when they are sold and thats a perfectly good age to be going as they will be eating solids at 3 weeks old and be mostly independent away from mum at 5 weeks old.

I just think it is so young. They are blind until just over two weeks and then sold 6 weeks later. I noticed the difference in behaviour to the pup I have now that I bought at 12 weeks of age from the time we got our GSD when I was a kid at 8 weeks old. Those 4 weeks do make a difference but I can understand why breeders would want to sell them at 8 weeks. Some owners don't bother vaccinating their pups but at 12 weeks the pups would have already been treated. I looked on gumtree the other day and someone was selling their 9 month old pup, has taken them for walks and the dog wasn't vaccinated.

rachiee

Kimberley wrote: »

I just think it is so young. They are blind until just over two weeks and then sold 6 weeks later. I noticed the difference in behaviour to the pup I have now that I bought at 12 weeks of age from the time we got our GSD when I was a kid at 8 weeks old. Those 4 weeks do make a difference but I can understand why breeders would want to sell them at 8 weeks. Some owners don't bother vaccinating their pups but at 12 weeks the pups would have already been treated. I looked on gumtree the other day and someone was selling their 9 month old pup, has taken them for walks and the dog wasn't vaccinated.

I agree with you. We dont let ours go to people who have never had the breed before until they are 10 weeks old as Irish Wolfhounds are not a very common dog to own and alot of people dont know how to care for one, which is why we supply infomation on the breed inside puppy packs with the correct food to feed them, money of coupons on that specific food etc, also we do home checks too. Some breeders are very irresponsable.. The correct way to let a puppy go to a new home for me personally is they are wormed every 2 weeks from been 2 weeks old.. microchipped, insured, vaccinated, checked by our vet and livershunt tested and also de flead and we always say if they have any problems with the puppy at all we are happy to take them back. We got a rottwieler puppy at the age of 6 weeks old, she was tiny and only just lapping up milk and biscuit mush! It was discraceful.

Abbafan1972

Aww hun. I hope your puppy will be ok. Keep us posted.

Krfc07

I really hope your puppy is ok

MrsE_2

Why are pedigree cats not sold till 12/13 weeks then?

If dogs are sold so young?

I have heard that taking them from the mum/litter too young can causes socialisation problems.

KVet

7 weeks is perfectly fine to be rehoming a puppy. The main period for socialisation is from 10-12 weeks old so its good for the owner to have them prior to that so they can socialise them to things it will be exposed to./ Some of the totally nervous dogs I have seen have been homed 12 weeks or over and their behaviour is very variable.

It might just be bad luck that this is happened. If the rest of the puppies in the litter are ok and she was perfectly well when you got her I doubt its the breeders fault especially if it is not parvo. Any baby animal has a rubbish immune system and anything can trip it off. The fact it had a long journey, changed homes, away from all its littermates etc, these are all very high stress factors and to get in contact with any but that might cause diarrhoea/sickness etc would be doubley hard to fight off especially with a ribbish immune system like puppies have. It sounds not too bad at the moment if they have let her go home and she is drinking and keeping it down. It would be much more concerning if she wasnt keeping water down too. Hope she gets better soon