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;) ;) I think your vet might need to take a look at their knowledge on canine nutrition. Try 70% to 80% of raw meaty bones and the other 20% to 30% of muscle meat, offal, dairy, fruit & veggies. Puppies eat a massive amount of food compared to adult dogs. Your dogs should still be getting 10% of it's actual body weight daily. If it is 5kg then it should be getting 500 grams of food a day split up into three meals. Stop cooking everything. Serve it raw. The veggies should be mainly green leafy ones.

Get a fine needle aspiration to make sure it's nothing sinister. Including vet consult should cost well under $100. Is the lump where is sternum is? Apparently it is quite common for fatty lumps to occur there as dogs are always knocking and bumping that area.

Common reaction to vaccines. Will probably take a few weeks to totally disappear. Massaging it can help.

Can you pull it off or cut it yourself? That will be what the vet will most likely do and then bandage it and put him on a course of antibiotics. Keep him confined till the morning when a vet visit might be needed. If he wont let anyone touch it they might have to sedate him so best not to give him any food tonight or in the morning.

Get rid of the rice! My own pugs get sardines in oil with veggie/fruit slops once or twice a week. They share a can betwen the two of them.

Oh no. Poor baby. Lots of good vibes for Cowan.

This is incorrect. Adult dogs are fed approx 2% of their ideal weight daily. I have my older adult pugs on about 1.5% of their weight daily. Young puppies, from when they are weaned approx 6 weeks till about 4 months old, on the other hand are fed 10% of their actual weight daily. Weigh at least twice a week. From about 5 months onwards, untill they stop growing, you still feed a percentage of the dogs actual weight but basically cutting the percentage down as they get older.

10% is what young puppies should be getting. At 5 months old you could probably cut it back to about 6% to 7%.

I did basically the same for a pug that had to have her stomach cut open to retrieve bones out of her osophegus. Except the chicken breast was minced. I boiled it in water and made a broth and basically fed a tablespoon every hour to her. Lots of vibes for your doggy cowanbree.

Yeast infection. I have seen alot of pugs get brown/black spots on their groin due to yeast infections. These areas sometimes turn moist and scabby. In pugs it's usually due to the food they are eating. Solution is to change the diet. But in the mean time bathe with Physohex, or similar, and apply Panalog, or similar.

Paw Paw ointment and wrapping with vetwrap, or similar, to keep the ointment on.

We had a rescue pug x (possibly) maltese girl with them. They were very boney, even more so then the front ones, and were not bothering her so we did not remove them when she was desexed. I have never seen or heard of a pug with rear dew claws.

Raw eggs are not harmful. Those of us who feed a raw diet usually include raw eggs including the shell.

Are you able to find out where they got him from? As Cosmolo stated all dogs coming out of pounds and shelters in Victoria must be desexed.

I have saved two pugs lives by giving mouth to snout. One was for about 6 to 7 minutes untill she started breathing again on her own. She had a blue tounge and dilated pupils before I started the mouth to snout. The other screamed, frothed at the mouth and stopped breathing taking about two minutes to come back. Scary stuff but I am glad that I used my gut instincts each time and both pugs are alive and happy. I now include a CPR instruction sheet in our rescue pugs adoption folders.

People are used to seeing fat dogs. When they come across a fit lean dog they can't quite get their heads around it. In my breed, the pug, people think that it's normal for them to be fat pigs who can't breath. When they come across a fit, healthy lean pug they are shocked. It saddens me as I have two rescues, that came in on the weekend, that are at least 3.5kg overweight each. They both huff and puff like steam trains from doing nothing when it's only 22 degrees. People think this is a typical pug when infact they are morbidly obese and heading towards heart attacks. My own pugs and Frankie, our demodex mange rescue, are all fit and lean and show no signs of distress even when it's 30 degrees. The two obese pugs are inside with the aircon on whilst my own lean pugs have just gone outside to sunbake with the current temp being 31 degrees.

Go and see an eye specialist.

I personally can't see much going on in the photos but there could be. How much are you feeding? If you are over feeding funny things can happen with legs and feet. Perhaps try cutting back his food a bit for a week or so and see what occurs. I don't feed dry food but the actual diet you are feeding seems fine. OMG the mothers photo is not that clear but she does seem to have an obvious deformity. Why was she bred with? These deformities can be genetic. The only way to really know if there is a deformity is to xray.

I look after a pug that has EPI. She has to be fed a low fat diet three times a day and enzyme powder added to her meals.

Get rid of this because it's full of junk!! If you are going to feed vegtables then you need to food process them to break down the cellulose walls. Food processed green leafy veggies, fruit and whole eggs would be more beneficial then two chunks of carrots. This would be more then one days meal for a small dog! If the pugs have bones then that is their meal for the day. If you are feeding raw then you should only be feeding 1.5% to 2% of your dogs ideal body weight. It sounds like you are feeding alot more then that. I would think about adding chicken necks, offal, fish etc. Get rid of the processed food it's not needed. Why the BBQ chicken?

Pet Network have them

26 at once. How could you possibly look after them all.

If it's the same Pets Hell then there were at least four pug puppies there a few weeks ago. Yes for $2,000 I could purchase a pug boy that was a purebred and came from a breeder but they were not allowed to tell me who. He also would be fantastic for breeding, when he was older, I was told by staff members who owned their own pugs and pug x's. Please do not purchase anything from these shops that insist on selling puppies and kittens. Just by walking into the store and making a purchase of food, toys etc you are supporting them.

Medium size on ebay including postage should be $20 and under. Works a charm on pugs coats.

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