Baby's Food & Medicine.

Decided to type this post since after a period of time, her health did improve, hope she will continue to grow up well and bigger please! *hehee*

As mention before, we did not bought Baby, she was Reiko's offspring thus I took care of her from the day we brought her back from the vet. As Reiko can't produce any milk and due to her heartworm treatment, Baby can't drink her milk thus I have to feed her with milk replacement (we use Esbilac) every 2 hours, as she grows... every 3 hours then 4 hours till she turn 1.

*Her food* 


Baby is rather a picky eater, I tried lots of food before, from kibbles to canned, raw dehydrated, raw etc but she always refused to eat and has the same problem, vomiting again and again. 

We took her to the vet several times but they usually just give us some medication and that's all. I can understand as it's a clinic, they might not have the facilities to do further testing. Thus after so many times, I decided to bring her back to Dr Ly again in ARC. 

Dr Ly says Baby has lots of gas inside, thus he scheduled a Bioresonance Allergy Test for Baby, and change her diet completely. After the test, it turns out Baby stomach was very sensitive and she was intolerant to ALL the food I fed her. Thus he gave her a new diet and mentioned that she will grow up well with this diet, and true enough, all problems stopped. 

Thats why I do recommend this food if your furkid has a senstive stomach,

Addiction Nutri-RX Allergy HS

You can use this food to make puppy chow too, another thing I like about it is it's like mash potato, thus I can either put less water to make it dry when she have the mood to eat by herself or add more water to make a paste and syringe feed her when she refuse to eat.

Her diet;
  • Addiction Nutri-RX
  • Papaya
  • Egg White
  • Addition Raw Dehydrated (Steakhouse Beef and Zucchini)
Supplements: Life Extension Dog Mix and Nature's Sunshine Proactazyme Plus.

Her meals schedule;
  • 10am~11am - Breakfast (Nutri-RX)
  • 2pm~3pm - Lunch (Nutri-RX)
  • 5pm~6pm - Papaya & Egg White 
  • 7.30pm~8.30pm - Dinner (Nutri-RX)
  • 11pm~11:30pm - Papaya & Egg White
  • 12:30am~1am - Supper (Nutri-RX)
She must have her breakfast, lunch and dinner, sometimes when she is too tired I will skip supper.

Treats wised, we bought a dehydrator and make our own beef jerky, sometimes we will dehydrate some beef liver as well. We only use a small amount of liver as I don't think too much iron will benefit her health and it gets moldy rather fast (less than a week).

Waiting for her beef jerky.


I do give her dental chews as well.

*Meds on Hand*


Unlike other puppies, she grew up with some problems so since young I always have these medicines on hand, at times I will use it on the other dogs too.
  • Metoclopramide Syrup - Prevent vomiting, we use it sometimes before car rides and after she vomit to prevent her from vomiting more after a few minutes.
  • Polysilic III Suspension - We use this to let her release gas in her tummy.
  • Bromhexine Syrup - Sometimes they are gagging, like there are some phlegm stuck so I gave them this to reduce it, they will usually blow it out and go back to sleep hahaa.
  • Vitamin B Complex - It's said to improve appetite, I see no difference in Baby, thus I use this as a supplement instead.
  • Chloramine Syrup - Used when they are sneezing or gagging.
  • S10% Solution - We use this when she have puppy dandruff or fungus (brown spots) on her belly.
Hope it helps, and have a great day!

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The new avatar.

I recently changed our avatar to a picture I took for Baby recently.

Like they say, keep your cameras nearby as you won't know when your furkid is gonna give you a cute picture!

Love the picture so much that I used it for my cellphone too (#^.^#)


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Okay first post!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to ItsyDogsy's revamped blog!

Since this is the first post, I shall write about how ItsyDogsy started ^^

Hmm lets see.... (note, it's gonna be a long ride)

We started this business for our youngest dog, Baby.

Baby's mother Reiko was pregnant when she was diagnose with heartworm and the doctor didn't know about it when she proceed with the heart worm treatment. 

I don't blame the doctor for this as it was too early to see her fetus from the xray when we brought her in for the very first time.

What I was upset about was, Reiko was hospitalized for a few days for heart worm before her due date and no one noticed that she was pregnant.

The vet told me they can't tell because they don't have an ultrasound machine but as a owner of 4 dogs (1 of them went away to the Rainbow Bridge at 2009), I've visited an amount of vets before and Baby have a grandma too. All of the vets told me the same thing, they can feel whether a female dog is pregnant by touching them and do without an ultrasound especially when they are about to due, and when Baby's grandma Pipi was pregnant, she did go for an ultrasound too.

I wonder was it that no one pays attention to their furry patients? Reiko gave birth early morning, when the vet tech discover her, she already gave birth to 2 puppies, and she needs to be operated immediately to save the another 3 puppies in her.

Reiko lost quite an amount of blood, so the vet decided to remove her uterus to stop the bleeding. Got the news, 2 died so we were only left with 3 puppies, 2 male 1 female.

Reiko with the pups.

Taking care of them was a painful and tiring task, it was a bumpy journey. We were told by the vet to take extra care of them as heartworm treatment is arsenic, the puppies might not live due to the amount of medication and toxic in Reiko's body. And Reiko didn't produce any milk, thus I need to feed them with milk replacer every 2 hours. No one is helping me, so I was under alot of stress during that period of time due to lack of sleep, the enormous hefty bills and worrying too much for these 3 babies.

5 days old, A above, C below.

I named them A, B, C. A was born by c-section, B was "popped" out by Reiko and C is the only female. Long story short, A & B didn't make it far, B died 3 days later, A died 2 weeks later. I cried alot during that period, and look totally like crap. Every vet that saw me told me to give myself a break, burying 4 puppies in 2 weeks is too hard for me to handle. So I prayed everyday, somehow I don't dare to sleep as I need to be there if C needs me.

13 days old, their eyes are slowly opening

C is always the stronger puppy, she don't like to sleep under the blankie (newborn puppy needs to be kept warm) & loves to sleep on top of her siblings since the day she was born, I syringe feed them as they were too small for milk bottles (the milk bottles in SG are considered big for the amount of milk they drank), her suckling power is really good, I have to hold the syringe tightly whenever I feed her as she can suck the milk herself, it goes really very fast!

Love watching her sleep.

When she was 4 weeks old, we noticed that she still can't walk properly and took her to the vet (another vet, we didn't visit the previous one anymore). It turns out that she was born with deform legs, her kneecaps were bent inwards instead of being straight.... another bad news. I keep asking God, she's the only one left, why can't she be a normal healthy puppy?

Her 1st toy

We decided not to let her go for surgery, as the process is too risky and I really can't lose her. So we let her go for physiotherapy, filled my floor with alphabet puzzle mats (as our normal flooring isn't good for her legs), she was told not to jump, run or stand on 2 feet which is very hard for her, cause she's really very active.

Massaging her legs.

Have to bring her down to the vet frequently for review, once a week when she was a few weeks old until she took her 1st puppy shot and she have lots of medication. Problems didn't stop, her digestive system doesn't seems to be good and she's a very very picky eater. The vet mention that we can't treat her like other puppies cause she was born under special circumstances, so no matter what... she have to eat! So I bought alot of food for her trial and error, but nothing works well even now. So I rotate her food now and then, but she will still miss her meals some days and puke stomach bile sighs.

Decided to call her Baby as she's really like a baby, she needs alot of attention from me and my partner. Life has changed ever since, one of us have to be around or we can't go out without her for a very long time, she will not eat or drink and cry nonstop till we are back. We can't go on holidays and I have to be more homely than ever, how I wish I can bring her to supermarkets or bring her for a holiday. And this journey taught me alot, now I know how to take better care of my furkids.

She love putting her tongue out

I was talking to my partner about how nice it can be to start out a pet shop eventually we made our mind  to start an online shop, so I will be able to manage my time between the business and my dogs especially Baby, who really needs us by her side. Doing pets related stuff is a joy, but as we are still green in this, we were thinking to start out small before venturing into a bigger market.

Currently our shop sell some pets accessories and daily necessities, we will bring in more items in the future.

Sorry for the lengthy post and hope you will support us ^^

Thank you!

xoxo.


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