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Boxers => Boxer Discussions & Pictures => : Phillips June 09, 2005, 03:02:42 PM
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Hello all, This is for some of the girls i talked to last night. These pictures were tooken today. Now does she look ok. Boof
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WHY CANT PUPPIES STAY PUPPIES! LOOK AT THAT FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cute cute cute
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yours are so cute. Does she look underweight for a 4 week old pup
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shes only 4 weeks! where did you get her!
i dunno! ive enver had that type of dog, but i cant see her ribs so thats good
i thiink she is perfect! but that is just my opinion and im a little dog stupid
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Shes only 4 weeks old, is that correct?
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I am so worried. I got her from a breeder in a small town near here we didnt know she was 4 wk s untill we looked at her akc regestraition papers but he didint give us those till we were pulling out of driveway. we had almost forgot them. we had an hour in a half drive. so i looked at them when we were half way home. I have been trying to feed her puppy formula and puppy food in the pouches. she eats it okay. I caught her trying to eat dry food last night from my other dogs bowl. sometimes you can see her ribs when she walks. not bad but i dont want her malnuturitoned
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yea story i just posted
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Here she is sleeping and you can see her ribs what do you think other than she is young . BOOF
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I don't know much about raising pups but I do know that 4 weeks is way to early to leave the mother. I would call the vet to see exactly what you should be feeding her, don't worry, as long as you feed her properly she should be fine. :)
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i talked to her last night but she seen pictures of the first night we brought her home and she must have just ate when we got her. look at this picture it is the one she seen. see the difference why i was worried
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see will be fine i know. I am paranoid thts all first time boxer moms huh ? llol
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LMAO...LITTLE PORKER!
HOW CUTE IS THAT PIC!
yep...you boxer moms! i'll tell ya!
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yea see the difference thank you for all the help. Boof Hope to talk to you soon
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From my puppy experience, it seems the puppy gets plump then stretches out and gets bigger and skinny, then keeps growing from there. She looks perfect in all the pictures. You are supposed to be able to see the outline of the rib cage, the ribs are just not supposed to stick out. You are doing a great job. ;)
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so cute...i have two boxers and they do show ribs for quite awhile but i would get her to the vet asp just to be sure...feed her some canned food and wet her dry food and make sure she drinks enough i would'nt push the potty training to hard and try to keep her away from other dogs until atleast eight weeks and her shots are complete.....s he is so cute i want one........... .....
ann
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:) Hello I am also a boxer mom and I think your little girl looks great she looks healthy and plump just like a boxer baby should look and its very normal for her ribs to show its all in the way they are built...well goodluck with her and you are doing a very good job with her...... ;)
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Hi and sorry it took me so long to get here, hehe, with all the tears for not getting on for about a week I can still JUST read the posts.
Anyway, yes she is too young, and you know it, you know what you have and deal with it. So I am sure she will be fine. She does look like a little porker in the first pics you posted, and a little leaner in the other. BUT most puppies when they start to run around and grow up from being a just suckling little baby, turn like that, they look all plump after eating and then they kinda suck in their waist and the ribs show a bit. That is perfectly normal, you dont want them underweight but not the other way around either. Hmmmm this is awhile since you posted so she should be about 5-5,5 weeks now. If she has been on soft food and baby kibbles, she is good to go on it. I would discuss it with vet, when she goes in for vaccinations and a checkup. He may want to add calcium to her diet, but that is a rather tricky topic, too much is bad, too little is just as bad, so I would not want to say either way with such a little baby, without seing her in person so to speak.
I am sure you manage the feeding just fine, and in the pics she looks great. I think that other things are just as important for a little girl like that, make sure you "baby" her a lot, she is such a young baby and has to coop without mom and siblings, so love on her bunches, kiss, hug and make her feel safe and comfy and that will be half the battle to a healthy dog. Take it easy, and even though it is hard sometimes remember her real age and not how long she has been with you (it can be hard to have enough patience with booboos and chewing and all other puppy stuff if you dont think about her real age)
She is adorable. Please post again so we can follow her growing, she is such a doll
Marit