Puppy shakes after eating - dogs wont go near him!

TAG

He's been through alot in the last 24 hours. Left his mum and siblings. Gone to a strange house with 2 strange dogs and adults. Alot to cope with when your only 5 weeks old. Did you have anything with mum's/siblings smell on?

We got our pup last Monday. She was 9 weeks. The first night I tried to get her to setttle in the kitchen, but after an hour of listening to her crying DH had enough and went down to her. She was in a bit of a state and ended up in her basket next to our bed. Where she went out like a light and slept for 6 hours solid. She just needed the reassurance that we were there.

She comes up to bed every night now. We made a rod for our own backs but I don't mind that she sleeps upstairs. She's very good, settles straight away and for the last 3 nights we haven't had any accidents. So it works for all of us. We get our sleep and she isn't lonely/scared. Plus it's rather amusing watching DH get dressed for work at 90mph at 6.00am so he can take her outside for a wee.

It is very very early days for your puppy. It'll take a week or so for him to settle in. Mines just coming into her own now and the mischief started yesterday. I lost my flip flops.

All I can suggest is he needs lots a reassurance and cuddles until he finds his feet.

Miss.Sian-Marie

I wouldn't worry too much, when I had my puppy at 8 weeks old she shook for a little while, it just takes them a while to settle in but if you are worrying a lot about it take your pup to the vets =]

stokechick16

Sorry for not replying to all your replies. My net got cut off grrr virgin media!! Anyhow, hes doing brill now . My aunty came up last night (who we had him off) to see how he was. And he is doing brill. Doesnt sleep at night thoughh:(. And my aunty is coming up saturday because he is being wormed then

TAG

Glad that it's going well and that the little fella has started to settle in.

daisykinn1

What are you doing? He's too young to be apart from his mother!!!!

Kimberley

Taking a pup away from it's mother at 5 weeks old is cruel. If someone cannot cope with pups then they shouldn't let their !!!!!es get pregnant. I really do get annoyed at irresponsible people, this is not a dig at you it's a dig to people in general who don't think about the welfare of the !!!!! or her pups.

stokechick16

As stated already. The mother (b*tch ) sorry about language was not bothering with them. And the puppies are very well looked after by my aunty. And he is doing brilliant now, he is just over 6 weeks now. Only trouble is getting him to sleep at night. He is fast asleep at the moment xx

Raksha

Most pups of 5 weeks of age are already weaned and no longer needing mother's milk, BUT they will still need lessons in dog behaviour from their dam and the rest of the litter, which is why it is normally considered vital to leave a pup with the mother until 8 weeks.

orlao

Glad to hear he's settled down a bit but IMO it's time to think about replacing the socalisation that he's missed out on due to leaving his mother so early.

Many years ago I had a pup (JRT) that I took at 5 weeks as a rescue ( she had health issues that meant the breeder was going to knock her over the head rather than pay the vet bills:mad: ) and my vet reccommend that she had her jabs ASAP so she could go out and about and to puppy training early! I also had an older very maternal girl JRT who helped her a lot.

As your dogs aren't interested in him (and as a male staffie) I think that it's even more important that he starts socialising with "nice" dogs as soon as it is safe to do so....BTW nice dogs are the ones that will play but not tolerate OTT behaviour so he learns bite inhibition etc:D

Good Luck

O x

Paparika

Try rubbing the pup with one of the other dogs basket blanket, this might make them have an interest as he will smell like them