Lilly Blossom drinking from the miracle sponge April 6, 2013
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Breeders sometimes are faced with a puppy that is not feeding properly because the mom has little milk or the siblings are pushing the weaker one away. And some are rescues as well.
We raise Yorkies and Biewers and have developed many years ago what we believe is a novel way to feed the puppy by replicating the natural method used by nursing mothers.
We hope that this idea can be useful to other breeders who are trying to save a puppy from malnutrition.
Remember to never leave the puppy unsupervised with a sponge in it's mouth. Use common sense when handling any newborn puppy.
We have been asked, but we don't actually sell kits to people as we would not want to profit from this potentially life saving method of helping a puppy or kitten in distress. It belongs to the world as far as we are concerned.
For posterity, we have decided to call our life saving feeding system "Nature's Udder Mother"
The products used in our video were purchased in Canada at Home Sense and Winners. We have found some web links to similar products on the internet:
Here is the link showing the heating bags. Ours are called tictac bags, but the same thing, the same products are often found elsewhere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKMXEkW1gVM
Here is the link to their page.
http://www.heatinaclick.ca/index.html
Browsers Buttercup Bed
http://www.theuncommondog.com/Bowsers-Buttercup-Dog-Bed.aspx
Here is a website that will show some puppy beds.
http://www.the-dog-bed-store.info/snuggle-dog/
There are probably hundreds of websites showing similar items. We don't recommend any particular product. Just trying to help out those looking for the supplies.
NOTE: we have had a lot of emails in regards to the sponges that we use. The brand name is NOT Visage sponges. That is actually the French word for "FACE" sponges. All drug stores carry latex free makeup sponges.
We are very pleased to see many videos out there using this life saving method. Any mammal can benefit and we hope that the technique continues to be shared by all animal lovers.
When we posted our video in April 2013 we did not see any sponge feeding videos of puppies but now their are quite a few out there and we see some improvements in the method that we originally used.
Web sites: www.thefurkids.com & www.biewers.com
Contact Adele Bisson: adele@thefurkids.com