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Perhaps he has a UTI.

I would never give the heartworm injection to my dogs as I have heard of to many bad side effects it has caused. Just think about the fact that with the injection they have to pump enough chemicals into your dogs body to last a year. I would much rather use monthly applications.

You shouldn't really be walking your pup untill he has had his last puppy vaccination at 16 weeks.

What exaclty do you mean by aggressive? If Josh is just giving the pup warning nips and snarles and the pup backs away from him because of it I would say that is normal behaviour and the way that pups learn. If Josh is the one going up to the pup and just snapping at him then this is not normal and unacceptable behaviour.

Sorry to say you bought your dog from either a BYB or PF as not reputable breeder lets their pugs go before they are 8 weeks old. By the dog leaving her mother and litter mates so early (they are only weaned at 4 weeks at the earliest) she has missed out on valuable antibiodies and valuable socialisation). You should not walk her untill she has her 3rd puppy vaccination which is at 16 weeks. I would suggest that from 12 weeks you take her to puppy school or socalise her with other dogs that you know are vaccinated in your own home. With the biting if it sounds like you are doing the right thing and telling her 'No'. Perhaps try making a loud yelp sound like you are being hurt when she bites. If she doesn't take no for an answer remove her from the situation and either put her in the laundry, crate, outside or puppy pen, somewhere away from you, for a good 10 minutes.

When is the kong & puzzle ball for? He probably doesn't need them if he has enough other toys and you are not leaving him for hours and hours alone by himself. Does he play with other toys? How long ar eyou leaving him in his pen? Puppies sleep alot so maybe the times that he is in his pen he doesn't need to be stimulated, he just needs to sleep, as he has done his running around whilst out of the pen.

Dogs have less pain receptors then humans. He will cope fine if it ever has to come out.

I would agree in getting rid of the Pal. (Do people really feed that stuff? ) Also remove the rice and pasta. Sometimes after having a bone the pugs will be very gassy.

Could it be Syringomyelia?

Has your vet prescribed prednisalone? Is your dog still eating normally? Carbohydrates are easily converted into sugars which are believed to feed cancer. Remove the carbs from the diet and the cancer has less/nothing to feed on. So if your dog is still eating normally I would remove any dry food and any grains (rice, wheat, oats etc) from her diet and feed a BARF or Raw food diet. Saying that I have provided pallative care, in the last 3 weeks of his life, for a pug that had Stomach Lymphoma. Because of the lymphoma some days he would eat and other days he would not so I basically didn't care what he ate as long as it was something. If he didn't eat I would syringe feed him. As well as his prednisalone I was giving him slippery elm (supposed to help with upset tummies), Omega Oil (supposed to inhibit cancer), Pentavite (to stimulate his appetite) and another paste like subsance that was supposed to stimulate his appetite.

Are all of your bitches related? What exactly do you feed. ie chicken frame in the morning & beef & veggies at night? Breeders I know of that feed a BARF or Raw diet, including chicken, all seem to have big litters.

What about trying salty water? Dunk her feet in a container of it when she comes in from being on the grass. I would change from using Phenergan as it is an old type of antihistamine and enters the CNS with one of the side effects being drowsiness. Use something like Claratyne which does not get into the CNS. What do you feed her?

Here I use a water spray bottle and a loud 'GRRRR'. Frenchies have a tendency to be very food, toy, couch etc posessive so if you don't show them who is boss and that behaviour like that is unnacceptable early on you will have a problem.

Has your dog ever been to see a specalists about his eyes?

I chop the pugs chicken necks up into smaller pieces so they can't choke on them. You can buy minced chicken carcusses from places like Lennards. If you are wanting to feed a BARF or Raw diet you need to read, read, read and inform yourself on what to do and not what to do.

Yes either feed her in the laundry and leave her in there for 10 minutes, outside and leave her out for 10 minutes or get a puppy pen and feed her in there.

That's true. Dogs need to have their vegetables crushed to break down the cellulose so that they can digest them. In the wild they would get most of their vegetable matter partly digested from the stomach contents of their prey or rotting fruit/vegetable matter they find on the ground. :rolleyes: I always include a small bag of carrots in the veggie/fruit slops I make up. They go through the blender. The pugs love a bit of raw carrot as a treat also.

I usally feed lambs kidney once a week. Approx two per pug diced up. Sometimes they get ox kidney or lambs liver. The most common offal you can lay your hands on is liver, brain & kidney. Hearts and tounge are usually classified as muscle meats.

I would be taking him to see a specalist. He sounds very much like he has some sort of epilepsy or a facial tic.

You are just adding grain to grain if you are feeding rice/pasta and dry food. Not a very good idea IMO. If you want to add something to the dry food why not try veggies? Raw of course.

Crate & puppy/dog pen. I'm suprised your vet did not suggest both of these to you. Whilst he is crated/penned he can play with kongs, chew toys like dentabones and big chunks of raw veggies like whole carrots will keep him occupied.

Tried mincing stuff with a heavy duty mincer once and it was feral. Stuff going everywhere. The only thing that worked was the chicken bones, no way that even lamb bones were going to be minced. Butchers wont even do lamb bones. Probably much easier to buy the minced chicken carcusses like the previous people have mentioned. That will give your dogs plenty of bone. You could then add minced lamb/beef/pork/kangaroo etc to the minced chicken carcusses. My Lenards sells 1kg for $1 but the butcher is 80c for the 1kg.

Have raised foster pups from the age of 7 weeks to 5 months on BARF. Both did fantastically well. Up untill the ages of 6 to 7 months they should be getting 3 meals a day. This is the info I gave to the people that adopted my girls... ------------------------------------------------------- PUG PUPPY BARF DIET • Currently being feed approximately 10% of their body weight, 80% of which should be Raw Meaty Bones and 20% vegies, offal & dairy, divided up into 3 meals a day. As they get older this should be cut back with them getting fed 2% to 3% of their body weight in either two or one meal a day when they are adults. If you see that they are getting to fat then cut the percentage back. • Breakfast & Dinner consist of Puppy mince/minced chicken carcasses, Barf veggie slops & full fat yoghurt. I will prepare a bowl of it in the morning mixing together the mince, veggie slops and yoghurt. Lunch consists of a raw meaty bone. • Twice a week I have been adding sardines to their food & once a week offal. You could add other things like kangaroo & beef from time to time but it is important that the bone to meat ratio remains ok. • Lennard’s sells the Puppy mince/ chicken mince which they have been fed on. It is made up of minced chicken carcasses. If you have to source the mince from somewhere else make sure it contains meat as well as the minced bones. It is important that dogs when dogs are fed meat (phosphorus) that they also have the right ratio of bone (calcium) with it to balance out nutritional needs. If dogs are fed meat without bones then serious health problems can occur. • Lamb bones are the best for them as they are soft enough for them to eat the whole bone which is important. Other bones that can be feed are the ones from non weight bearing parts of the body. Weight bearing bones are often to hard for dogs to actually consume both the bone and the meat throwing the phosphorus/ calcium ratio all out of whack and ruining dogs teeth in the process.

Oh great that they found what was wrong. And good on you for making sure he had medical treatment. When it comes to eyes if you leave injuries to long that's when things can go very wrong. If you apply his meds then they should clear up his cornea injury pretty quickly. Bet he is back to his normal crazy self tomorrow and hitting you in the shins with his bucket.

Swelling will be gone by the time he gets his stitches out. Should be left with just the skin. How old is he? If he is a pup then you will find that over a few months his scrotum will basically disappear. If he is an older dog then it will take much longer for it not to be so noticable.