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Tube Feeding Your Puppy Part 1

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A safe way to nurse a newborn puppy without the risk of strangulation is by using a feeding tube. The equipment needed for tube feeding an orphaned or abandoned puppy is quite simple. You will need a #8 or a #10 French infant feeding tube, a hypodermic syringe, and a substitute for mother's milk. The tube and syringe are disposable and can be thrown away after each use. On the other hand, there are also reusable equipment such as glass barrel syringes and rubber feeding tubes that are available but must be thoroughly cleaned right after each use. One great advantage of these feeding tubes is that they can be placed in water and boiled, along with any other equipment, when sterilization is required.

After the proper equipment has been gathered, the feeding of a puppy with a stomach tube is performed by applying the following steps:

Step 1: Fill the syringe about � full of the warmed mother's milk substitute and put it aside for future use. Then, determine the proper depth to which the tube should be inserted by measuring, with the tube, the distance between the puppy's nose and a point just behind the elbow or just in front of the last rib. This is approximately where the stomach of the puppy is located. Continue to hold the tube by your thumb and forefinger. ;

Step 2: The next step is to mark the tube at the correct depth measured in step 1. This can be done using a marking pen, or with a tiny piece of tape.

Step 3: With the marked tube still held between the thumb and forefinger, hold the puppy with the opposite hand, placing the thumb and forefinger on the cheeks, one on each side of the puppy's mouth. Use the remaining three fingers of the same hand to grasp the puppy. The middle finger is placed around the puppy's neck, in front of the forelegs. The fourth finger grasps the rib cage just behind the front legs. The little finger is placed in front of the hind legs, either in the groin or around the abdomen, depending on the puppy's length. Once the puppy is held firmly in hand, pry its jaw open with the little finger of the hand holding the tube. Gentle and steady pressure is placed on the sides of the mouth at the same time. By maintaining this light pressure, the mouth can be held agape once it is opened.

Setting Good Eating Habits
A dogand#39;s eating habits are controlled by three things: its brain, its experiences, and its environment The very first experiment in behavioral psychology was done by a scientist named Pavlov who taught dogs to get ready to eat when they heard a certain sound Since that initial experiment, scientists have observed over and over how important the things happening around, and to, a dog are when it.....More on Calories In Dog Food

Weaning Your Puppy
Whether a newborn puppy is fed by his own mother or by his owner, he must eventually be taught to depend on something besides milk for his food This learning process is called "weaning", and represents the changing of a puppyand#39;s diet from liquid to solid At about three to four weeks of age, as soon as their eyes open and they are able to move about with some ease, most puppies will begin to exp.....More on Calories In Dog Food

Three Steps To Determine How Much Food To Give Your Puppy
To determine the amount of food to begin with when you start feeding a growing puppy, apply the following steps: Step 1: Find a puppy feeding chart and determine the number of calories per pound of body weight your puppy should have for his age For example, a 7 week old pup weighing five pounds needs 400 calories every day Step 2: Divide the number of calories contained in a pound of .....More on Calories In Dog Food

The Dogs Mechanics of Eating
Many dog owners think that every different breed of dog must be fed different, according to some sort of specification However, the eating behavior of a dog is characteristic of the whole species, not of any individual breed, since all dogs eat the same way As a result, there are certain general considerations that can be made when feeding any dog A dog is not required to eat its food th.....More on Calories In Dog Food

The Growing Puppy
After the puppy has been weaned, he can begin to learn how to handle and digest different types of new foods During the next 12 to 18 months of his life, he will continue to learn how to cope with the variety of new foods he eats For the first six to eight months of that period the puppy will be both growing and using nutrients and energy at an incredible rate If a food is fed containing ing.....More on Calories In Dog Food