Recognising and caring for premature neonates

Certain breeds tend to give birth several days early while still producing fully formed neonates. Smaller breeds commonly produce immature puppies (Figure 1), even after a full-term pregnancy...

Anaesthetic management of paediatric and neonatal patients

Although young patients are capable of rapid repair, it was stated by Rigotti and Brearley (2016) that these patients have a reduced capacity to compensate in response to physiological changes that...

How to hand feed newborn puppies

There are essentially two means of providing nutrition to newborn puppies: orogastric (‘stomach’) tube feeding and teat feeding (Harmar, 1974; Baines, 1981)..