7 weeks today

and she's looking and acting like it too

Nutritional needs double but she's showing picking eating, hence only want people food mixed with her kibble.  Crunching in NuVet vitamin daily.  For variety, some days eggs, meat, pasta, almond milk, chicken broth also makes it in her special meals twice a day. She always prefers cooked chicken and now cooked eggs.  She's pregnant, a little picky ... might as well take advantage of getting new and fun things to eat.

This week we are suppose to start to feel the puppies.  She was relaxing, didn't feel anything yet.  Her tummy is large and tight.

As they say, do not force her to do or not to do anything.

Week Seven

Days 42 to 49

Developed puppies continue to grow. Dam will start shedding her tummy hair.

Suggestions:

Increase food...avoid home-cooked unbalance foods. Try to make her eat a balanced diet, not just meat. But if your dam starts getting fussy, doctor up her meals with cooked chopped beef heart, liver, chicken hearts etc.... Some extra meat is good...too much can cause problems. Stop all rough play and jumping. 

At the end of this week, days 48 to 50, take the dam off of the puppy food and put her back on regular kibble. You can change gradually over a couple days, but you have to limit the calcium intake you are feeding so the dam's body goes into store calcium mode.