It's been a big week, the puppies are growing like crazy and 3 of them have opened their eyes....Darth Vader, Hans Solo and Yoda....Princess Leia has opened one eye....I choose to think that she's winking. You can also see that Princess has become one big squishy puppy!
On Monday night, we had to rush Roxy to the emergency room. She wasn't feeding the puppies and she started shaking, tremors were coursing through her body....Ta woke me up, I put my hand on her body and knew that something wasn't right......I jumped out of bed, it was about 1:00 am, threw some clothes on and we were out of the door.
I took her to Cottonwood animal hospital, Doctor Neal checked her out and and determined that she was low on calicium...checked her blood and sure enough, she had no calcium....he said that if we had waited any longer, she may have gone into seizures and her heart would have stopped.
So scary, I was crying, but they sent me home while the put an IV in her and kept her for the night....the scariest thing was that Doctor Neal told me I had to think about weaning the puppies. Yikes!! bottle feeding 7 puppies every 2 hours seemed impossible to me.
Lucky for us, the Roxy responded well to the cottage cheese and Tums treatment....did any of you know that Tums is just calcium?....we now mash it up, put some water in it and give it to her in a syringe....she's being really good about it.
As soon as all the puppies open their eyes, I'll post all the pictures!....Until then, just know that this is Roxy's last litter because her mom can't handle any more emergency room trips!
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