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Once the puppies have their eyes open, you can try carefully picking them up, holding them for a bit, and placing them back in the box. By about three weeks of age, you can-and should!-begin gently handling the puppies 1 for short periods for reasons other than basic health care. Under your veterinarian's guidance, the puppies should receive their first deworming treatment at about two weeks of age. Continue to weigh the puppies each day during week two to ensure everyone is steadily gaining weight. At all times, be on the lookout for any kind of eye discharge or other signs of infection. If they don't, you probably should have a veterinarian take a look and possibly help assist the puppies by manually opening their eyes. Puppies generally start to open their eyes at about this time. It's still vitally important to keep the puppies warm at this stage, but you can start to ease it up a bit, working down towards about 80☏. You may wish to have your veterinarian evaluate your puppies and their mother shortly after birth to ensure everyone is doing well.

You want to regularly change the bedding and absorbent pads and frequently clean the whelping box over the next several weeks.

Heat lamps are also sometimes used to heat the general puppy area, but talk to your veterinarian first. You could also give them a Mother's Heartbeat Heated Puppy Bed with Bone Pillow to keep them warm and cozy. Once the puppies are older (after their eyes are open and they can move around easily) you can fill that need by providing the puppies with a puppy-safe heated pad designed to provide warmth without getting too hot. This is fine, except the puppies may need a heat source when she isn't around. After all, she's used to life with her family, and she may not want to have her daily routine entirely disrupted by her puppies. They receive some protection from their mother's body heat, but it's possible your new mother dog doesn't spend all her time with the puppies in the whelping box.

Keep the puppies warm! Newborn puppies are still developing and aren't able to regulate their body temperatures effectively.

You should see a steady increase each day and you can expect each puppy to double its birth weight by the time they are seven to 10 days old. Keep an eye on your puppies' weight gain by weighing them every day.

In the event of a serious problem, you'll need to take over bottle feeding the puppies with the aid of a newborn puppy feeding chart. In this instance, the mother dog will take care of deciding when to feed the puppies. Another key factor is the colostrum the puppies receive from the milk, which contains important antibodies to protect the puppies during these early stages of life.

Are the puppies nursing? Newborn puppies receive all of their nutrition from their mother's milk, so it's very important to make sure each puppy is nursing properly.

Raising puppies is hard work, but thankfully you don't have to do it alone! The mother dog is your partner in this task, and your role this week will be an "overseer" and someone to contribute in areas the mother can't manage, like weighing the puppies and deworming them. Here's a rundown of some things you want to keep in mind. How many puppies are there? What colors are they? How many males or females? It's a heartwarming time as the mother dog forms a bond with her new puppies.Įven if you have a healthy mother dog that loves her litter, you'll still be involved with newborn puppy care week by week. If you're raising puppies, it doesn't get more exciting than the moments after delivery when you finally get a chance to meet the new litter.