Awww bless, so cute

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I hope he comes through ok. Looks like he is doing fine so far so crossing my fingers.

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I know this is OT but there is also all sorts of behavioural fallout associated with single litter puppies especially in relation to learning bite inhibition learning and frustration threshold development

*slink away again...*

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"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts." - John Steinbeck

"If you don't want your dog to bite you, don't be an a**hole to him." ~ Dr. Ian Dunbar

nope - spot-on, hun! get yer tail up + smile!

from post #1 -
all pups need to learn to accept that frustration happens and not get enraged by minor frustrations...

like being picked-up, a singleton with no intervention will often BITE, full-force + full-mouth, when picked up
or even stopped on the way from A to B by a body standing in the way; do not cuddle a solo-pup close to Ur face, ears, chin, etc -
be aware that stiffening, hard-eyes and freezing are BITE preludes, not normal mild-anxiety in a pup accustomed
to handling... holding a singleton alongside Ur waist helps U assess the pup's reaction without risking plastic-surgery.

they need to be bumped from nipples, pushed about in the nest-box, crawled upon, get a tiny paw shoved in their faces as a littermate clambers over them, be argued with for possession of a toy, and so on. the breeder can do this with a stuffie, but a live-adopted-sib is way better at it.

if the dam has little milk, washing her breasts with plain warm-water + firm strokes can help; be SURE the solo-infant gets the **colostrum in the critical 1st-12-hours** - after that the baby-intestine is no longer Swiss-cheese, able to accept the immune-molecules from Mum which are enormous; they will go thru the baby unabsorbed.

U can put the solo-pup on another dam after the colostrum-feeds, and let mum dry-up, too - take pup to litter, or bring littermates to pup... whatever works.

or get MUM =another neonate= or SPLIT a litter, some on the single-pup mum, the rest on the birth-mother;
this is another excellent tactic. CALL shelters, other breeders, rescues, the neighbors...
let them know as soon as U know, that a singleton is expected at thus-and-so date, and U will gladly FOSTER a litter or a few pups / kittens... that way they can plan for any new-mums that may arrive, or orphans taken in.

a stray who comes in and whelps a big litter at the municipal shelter, a dog in rescue with more-pups than she can handle,
an ORPHANED litter, it makes no diff - just living, breathing, thrusting infants. the adopted-siblings can be kittens, pigs, pygmy-goats, who cares, so long as they are mammals, and nursing -
younger is better, but don;t be too picky.

happy pup-rearing,
- terry

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I am lucky with this little one, he is so funny, when he see's us coming he will sit back and put up one paw and his tail is wagging like mad, he loves his cuddles and playtime on the floor with Teigan and us all here. I hope he continues to be a good puppy, he is 7 weeks old now and doing really good, loves his food, I take the dish away now and again while he is eating, and fiddle with the dish while he is eating aswell, NOT one growl or anything. One very fast waggy tail ALL the time.

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Susan Garrett, current & past singletons -
The Singleton Puppy | Susan Garrett's Dog Training Blog


Temple Grandin summarizes McConnell - [Trish had a solo BC-pup]
Animals make us human: creating the ... - Google Books


Karen London
Dog Behavior Blog: Singleton Puppies


singleton Mastiff co-reared w/ Havanese -
Whelping a Singleton Puppy


cheers,
- terry

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tmp, sept-2007

Great post

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thanks for discussing but the shared link Pet Forums Community - View Single Post - yorkie pup just born are not working properly from here. Can you see the properly?

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where R U in the world, Axel?
some parts of central Europe & northern Africa won't allow / will not recognize a tiny-URL.
they see them as 'security issues'.

here's the full one:
yorkie pup just born