Thread: Deformed Puppy?

Hello, I'm new to the forums.

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Here are the URLs to two pictures of one of my puppies. My dog (mix breed) had the puppies yesterday (January 3rd). Most of the litter has been fine, except for this one. He can't walk. His arm is connected at the elbow to his body (in the second picture). His head is frequently up at the angle that it is at in the first picture. You can move it down to a more normal position, but he will move it back to the upwards position.

What should I do? I've been having to put his mouth up against the mother's nipple and squeezing to get anything into him. He won't move and doesn't suckle. We have been keeping the mother outside of our house in an enclosed tool shed, but it is still kind of cold where she is being kept. Any advice? what is wrong with him?

those puppies need to be in temperatures of at least 80 - 90 degrees GET THEM all in the house.....

then take this puppy to the vet..... to be honest I would probably humanely euthanize but you may not have to if you don't get those puppies in the house where its warm and get mom into a warm location.....

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I know you are posting here because you want help. So here is my advice:

1. Get the pups in the frikkin house!
2. Take the pup's to the VET!

The rest I have to say I wont say online.

Originally Posted by clipclop

I know you are posting here because you want help. So here is my advice:

1. Get the pups in the frikkin house!
2. Take the pup's to the VET!

The rest I have to say I wont say online.

best response yet....
straight and to the point

This is a perfect example of why breeding should be left to those that actually know what they're doing.

I am very sorry that I wasted my time coming to these forums.

I expected semi-prompt answers from experienced and helpful dog owners. I would figure that taking a sick dog to the vet is a common sense response to any seemingly serious pet problem. If that is the only piece of advice super moderators and senior members can give, they should not be posting or should not be seniors or moderators of any kind. I have no easy access to a vet, and would have taken my dogs to see one, just like any person could have done.

007dogs, great thanks for the advice. People like you are the reason people get on the internet for advice. I was looking for practical help that could be quickly implemented.

We brought and kept the puppy inside and started reading up on how to care for him. He died while sleeping a few hours later.

Originally Posted by Annamarie

This is a perfect example of why breeding should be left to those that actually know what they're doing.

For your information I did not breed to produce show puppies or to experience the miracle of birth, our dog just happened to have gotten pregnant and we tried to help her as much as possible. I also do not believe I came to this website just to receive an idiotic, unproductive, wasteful, hateful, narrow-minded insult like this.

I agree with you. Breeding should be left to those who find pleasure in such activities. I am raising dogs for fun. My daughter enjoys them so much. They are really the highlight of her day. Having fun and loving a dog should be left to someone who can actually do so. Start with the people in your world. Show them. Don't hurt them, please. Be humane.

ok i know u are not going to like how this sounds OP but i hope you dont have the same attitude if ur daughter comes home pregnant. It just happened mom! seriously, in this day and age there is so much info to prevent unwanted litters. Before animals could even be spayed or neutered, dog owners simply kept the dogs apart.
Furthermore, look at your original post- I cant imagine you expecting that to generate warm fuzzies from all of us. You could have qualified your post a LOT more to begin with.
Lastly, what were you expecting us to say or do? Post schematics for surgery? Even if any of us were Vets (which some people here are) they would still not be able to diagnose your dog by a picture online! You have no excuse for being upset at people for telling you to bring the dog indoors and take the dog to the vet. Apparently the advise you got here wasnt so "common sense" since you didn't figure out on your own to bring NEWBORN pup's indoors.

I'm the ignorant one??

I certainly hope that by now your dogs, ALL OF THEM, have been to see the vet.

I also, for the sake of the puppies, hope that you've had some sense knocked into you and are bringing the puppies inside. Would you leave a newborn child outside in a cold garden shed?

You contradicted yourself in your post, saying that you weren't doing it for your daughter and then you say you bred because your daughter loves dogs so much. Then you said it was an OOPS litter, then you say you're breeding for fun? I don't buy it.

I hope you find responsible homes for these pups and please get your dog spayed as soon as the vet says it's safe to do so.

And FYI: most dog owners that care about their pets allow them to sleep in the house when it's cold, even without puppies.

OP, please have your dog spayed as soon as you can.

Let me tell you a story:
when I was on the farm I had a Nephew (by marriage) who had a head injury from a farm accident. His Granparents owned the farm and gave this boy everything he wanted because they felt so guilty about his injury (which, BTW affected him in many ways and always will, for the rest of his life). While his injury was not their fault, it was their farm and it occurred doing work for them. The boy was 14.

One year, this boy asked for a dog. A neighbor had some mixed breed puppies and so he got a little female puppy. He was in no way competant to own, care for or train a dog. Neither were his Grnaparents whith whom he lived.

I had dogs that were really nice dogs.. well trained... that everyone admired. Well, with Puppy not being trained at about 6 months old they decided I should do it (after all, my husband was their son and I had no kids...). I did not have adequate time and told them so.. Because no one had ever taught the puppy anything.. even her name.. well, I had my hands full.

I asked them when she would be spayed and they said, "Oh she should have a litter..." I requested they spay her but it never happened. Pregnancy surely did happen!

By this time, the dog was marginally trained and she gravitated toward one of the workers on the farm. She had her puppies in his basement. She had FOURTEEN puppies. One was similar to your puppy and died almost at birth. Puppies were checked by a vet who came to the farm.. and all was well in puppy land.

However, the nephew now wanted one of these puppies.. and so he had one (this time a male). The others were given away and the mother was spayed and went with the farm worker when he left.

At the end of 3 years not ONE of those fourteen puppies was alive. Some had been taken to the pound and PTS. Others died under the wheels of cars on the highway. NOT a single adoptive family was qualified to have a dog.. and the dogs all paid in the end.. I do not believe the Mother dog made it to 5 years old.

This is a very sad story and this story is why we all insist on puppies not being bred 'indiscrimantly' (or however you spell it). I was frustrated by the whole business. I am frustrated by your puppies and what you are saying as well.

I had no say in this whole thing.. and it was about 25 years ago. I had no say in any of it (because my husband insisted to 'keep peace' I would take the dog to train and to 'keep peace' it would not be spayed etc.). It was a bad place for me to be and an even worse one for the dog and her puppies. I DID object and even as I did object to being named 'trainer' to the not spaying, I was drowned out by other people. The dog was not my dog..

This story illustrates why people here get so upset over dogs breeding either by 'oops' or any other unplanned method. I could not agree with them more.

While they expressed anger at you and the whole sad story, the bottom line is what I see coming thru this thread is an undying love for and care for dogs of any kind. What I see is people who want nothing but a positive outcome for these amazing animals (yours or anyone else's).