I just adopted a young bloodhound puppy last Tuesday, the woman had told me she was born December 25, 2011 (Christmas) now keep in mind we also adopted another female that was born December 19, 2011 and they are no where near the same size, the older one(Birdy)is pushing 35+lbs, has all her vaccinations current, the younger female (Ginger) is barely 11lbs...when I picked her up, my better judgement had told me not to get her for she was severely emaciated her hips ribs and paws were all skin and bone, really sad I actually thought for a minute she was a Chihuahua, and asked the woman if she was really born on Christmas, regardless, I paid the woman for her and took her home, I was freaked out thinking this poor pup was going to die because this woman was a horrible puppy mill person, again I know puppy mills should be discouraged, but seeing this poor pup in the condition she was in I couldn't say no, who knows she might have died.
So, really long story short, I took her home, my husband was a bit upset with me calling me the bleeding heart liberal, but then saw how sweet and loving she was dropped it, and she has had a huge appetite, we have regulated her food, to 1 cup every 2 hours and then moved it up, were concerned about bloat, up until today she had a healthy appetite and at first she had horrible diarrhea, then about 2 days ago she started having solid stools, but today, this morning she was fine, playing around eating normal, but this evening when I got home from class (my husband was home with the pups) she has been sleepy and not wanting to eat and no stool since this morning. She has seen the vet this past Friday, (about 4 days ago) and had her vaccinations, the vet did agree she was young probably around 5-6 weeks old, (as soon as this woman mails us the papers on her we plan on reporting her, until then its a matter of he said she said) and told us that we were doing well with her care, we had shown her the pictures of Ginger the day we had gotten her and she had filled out a lot in the few days we had her. She doesn't have worms, but at the same time, we are petrified there is something wrong with her. At the moment, we are tight on funds and really can't afford to spend 1000's on vet bills, unfortunately we have had a bad experience with vets, almost a year ago we had adopted a pup from the humane society, she had all of her vaccinations up to date, and almost a month later, (a week after she had her booster shots) she managed to catch parvo, but wasn't dx right away, the first vet said she was having a reaction to her shots and to come back in a couple of days if she didn't improve, well, the next day she had bloody stool and so we took her to another vet, turned out she tested positive for parvo and passed away 3 days later at 7 months old and 1100$ later. It did take us a long time to decide to get another puppy not to mention 2... the other is fine and acting normal (birdy) its Ginger that is acting out of the norm. Of course our thoughts go right to parvo, granted her symptoms are nothing like the other pups, shes not throwing up, nor is she having bloody stools, its just the lack of desire to eat and sleepy ness. Please if anyone has any suggestions please let me know