u/jangkura

Hello again, I'm the person that fostered a pregnant dog from my local shelter and I'm now caring for a litter of 7 puppies for a while (for more context you can check my post history on this sub). They are 4.5 weeks old now and haven't had their first deworming yet, although I've been very insistent on it since you guys informed me that it's very necessary. My brother just now relayed the message to the vet and they dewormed the mom today, but according to the vet "since they drink her milk and the dewormer travels through the milk, it's better to just do the mom for now. we can do the puppies in a few weeks" (english is not my first language, I try to translate as accurate as possible). Is this okay? I know a lot of you told me to just buy the dewormer and do it myself but I'm just not in a position to do that since I'm just fostering them and medical decisions are not up to me, my brother (worker at the shelter) takes care of everything and asks the vet first before doing anything medical related. Is this a normal and healthy decision (about the deworming)? I worry about them a lot but unfortunately I can't do much and anything I say takes like a week to relay and get a response on

Has anyone learned a way to deal or get over getting triggered by everyday mundane things? For example, I used to get triggered when cutting up watermelon (cutting up the slice in vertical stripes, looked so similar to a sh sleeve), the silliest thing you will hear today. The latest and why I'm here is because of puppy scratches.. I'm taking care of some puppies lately and I sit down to play with them a few times a day, and occasionally one will climb on me a bit too hard and leave a scratch on my thigh. it's nothing like my past sh, these are very faintly red and don't hurt at all, but still visible enough to take me back to that place. Other people have seen them and immediately asked if it was the puppies, nobody even thinks about this stuff, it's just me. I just wish I could live a life where I wasn't so affected by the stupidest things.

Hi guys, I'm the person who fostered a pregnant dog and now has a litter of 7 at home until they turn 2 months old (for more context you can check my post history). As the title says, the puppies are turning 4 weeks old in 3 days exactly, and they still haven't gotten dewormed once. A few days ago I asked my brother (he works at the shelter) and he said no need yet, he hasn't brought it up since. I researched a bit and found that they should be dewormed every 2 weeks starting from week 2? Not sure if that's right, but anyways, is this okay? Or should I insist? is there any case where they don't get their first deworming for a while? Thanks again for all the help

update from yesterday's post, this is a nightmare. i love them a lot but this is getting so detrimental to my mental health and it makes me want to cry. they cry all night and early morning and we don't know what to do, and we have no help, i told my brother (who works at the dog shelter) the situation, that it's driving me crazy, and all he said is that that's just how it is. it honestly makes me want to cry. i don't want to give up on them but how on earth do you guys do it? we're running on less than 6 hours of sleep because they cry until like 3am and then wake us up crying at 7 (even being in a separate room) and it just makes me want to cry every night. is this really how it will be for a month? there's nothing i can do? feels like im living in a torture chamber and every day im more irritable and stressed than the day before. my partner and i work from home every day, that's why we thought we'd be the perfect household for fostering, because we're home all day, but it bit us in the ass like crazy.

Long story short, I fostered a pregnant dog from my local dog shelter for the summer so she could give birth in a calm and nice environment. She had 7 puppies, she's a podenco hound dog (4 or 5 years old) but they don't know which breed got her pregnant, she was abandoned. They're staying with us until they can legally get adopted, so 2 months, they're now 3 weeks old. The thing is they're growing at different rates, and while some already howl and eat dry food and walk around, others are visibly smaller and quieter. When we bring them their wet food there's a few of them that eat faster and have more of it than others. They still drink milk from the mom, but not as much anymore. I tried giving them their meals one by one, letting them each have a go at the food by themselves, but it takes a long time, and I genuinely do not have the time every day to watch over 7 puppies one by one 3 or 4 times a day. What can I do to feed them better? Is there a strategy that I'm missing? I didn't think she was carrying that many puppies and they're lowkey driving me insane but I'm still trying my best