When 2 week old puppy sticks tongue out & licks but doesn't whine @ all - does

shibbyfashionfreak · 12-18-2008, 10:05 AM

that always mean he is hungry? Our dog just died & had a 2 week old puppy so i have been bottle feeding him. I have read it is better to underfeed than to overfeed. While he is sleeping he'll wake up & sort of stick his tongue out 7 tries to suck my fingers- does this always mean he is hungry?

Nishfet (Red D) · 12-18-2008, 10:05 AM

Awww, good for you for not abandoning the puppy! I'm sorry to hear about the mother.

Although I've never raised such young puppies, I believe that if the puppy is sleeping, and starts licking the air, it's not necessarily hungry, it's just moving it's mouth.

If you follow the feeding schedule/graph given to you by a vet or, at the very least, on the box of the milk supplement, I'm sure you'll be fine. Even if he looks hungry, if the Vet tells you only to feed him a certain amount 5 times a day, only feed him that amount.

tineka g · 12-18-2008, 10:07 AM

its a natural reflex of sucking nothing to worry about