My 10 week old Chihuahua will not drink water. I have been raising an abandoned puppy since she was a week and a half old. She weaned from her formula in a bottle at about 6 weeks and is now eating wet puppy food. I have been adding water to it because she will not lap up any water at all. I have tried adding formula and wet food for flavor, but no luck! I weighed her last week and she is exactly 1 pound. Is she too small to drink from a dish?
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No, she isn't too young to drink from a dish or even eat from a dish. I had to take over the feeding of 3 small puppies at 1 month because the mother got sick and couldn't feed them any longer. I tried to bottle feed them, but they wouldn't accept the bottle. I ended up feeding them all from a dish with their formula inside of it. But considering you have been bottle feeding your dog for so long it is used to drinking from the bottle. You can always try to put the water in the bottle and see if they will lip the water up and not need to use the bottle to drink from.
Make sure the water you put out is super fresh and cool. Puppies don't like stale, warm water. Try splashing some on its nose often to get it to lick it off as a start.
You don't want the puppy to be dehydrated. Give her water in a bottle until she gets older.
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