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WARMING A COLD PUPPY
I’m most
successful allowing mothers to whelp in the garage in the summer months.
The Texas summers are routinely 100 degrees plus.
Set up some fans and get the air moving.
The temp would range from 90 to 80 at night.
The mom will pant and look miserable, but the puppies will be
perfectly safe. Basically, a few months a year, I have a two car incubator
and chilled puppies just don’t happen. When they are three days old… I
move them into the air conditioning (76 degrees).
Mom will keep
them warm after three days. The mom's temperature is about 101-degrees and
if the puppy snuggles up to the mom's body, he should be able to keep his
own temp at about 95-degrees from the heat he will get from her body. By
two weeks, he is supposed to be 97-99-degrees and by this time, the
puppies have learned to climb between her front legs, back legs and up
under the neck. By three weeks of age, a normal puppy will be able to
maintain his body heat and they only need mom for milk.
If a puppy gets
chilled, the intestines will become paralyzed (will completely stop). Food
will sit indefinitely and will not move though the puppy. Once chilled
they don’t warm themselves. The condition will simply become worse and
worse until the puppy dies.
NEVER EVER FEED
A CHILLED PUPPY!!! It is absolutely the dumbest thing you can do. It is
the same as killing them.
The first step
is to warm him. Warm him slowly. If the skin warms too rapidly, the
surface vessels will dilate in an attempt to cool the body. The core
temperature, however, will remain low. So the key is to warm him slowly.
Put the puppy under your shirt next to your body, but you can also wrap
him in a dryer warmed towels and allow him to warm in the incubator you
have made.
There are many
techniques and systems in use all over the world for keeping a litter of
puppies warmed. The easiest is the Texas sun and the attached garage of
our home. But you might use a heating pad, or a heat lamp.
In the winter
the whelping box is inside the house, but has a Heated Pet Mat from Farm
Innovators.
The whelping box
is a plastic storage bin resting on top of a towel and the heating bad.
Plastic makes for easy cleaning and disinfecting. I use a blanket
cover to give the new moms and their babies as much privacy as possible.
If you have
puppies that are wandering away from their heat source into the corner of
the puppy pen and crying until you retrieve them, check the temperature of
the surface. The temperature might be too high.
Put some towels between the heating pad and the plastic whelping
box. If the puppies face is
paws are red, then it is too hot. They should be pink.
Check the
temperature of the area by taking a regular glass thermometer, covering it
with a folded towel and leaving it in place for about 20 minutes or so. If
it goes above 95-degrees, you are providing too much warmth for the puppy.
Chilling is the
number one killer in my experience. If
the puppy has a core temperature near 70-degrees, you will probably not be
able to tell if he is alive or dead. He might be dead, but try putting his
belly on a 95 degree hot water bottle.
Fill a heavy duty zip lock bag with water and microwave it until it
is exactly 96. Use a digital thermometer, once the bag is out of the
microwave. Even puppies
which have had no audible heartbeat have been revived after 15-30 minutes
of warming. After warm then stimulate him… rub him till he cries.
Life is very
hard to kill… people, dogs, cats, fleas all hang onto life and don’t
want to relinquish it. I
wouldn’t give up on a puppy until it’s core temperature is 95-degrees
and still there isn’t any sign of life.
A long while
back, I had a puppy I gave up on… but I left him on the zip lock bag. I
came back an hour later to go bury him and he was up and trying to nurse.
Nothing cold is
dead… warm them and then evaluate things.
submitted
by Alan Nafzger
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