I have adopted a chihuahua puppy from an abused home.
She is between 8-10 months old. only 3.2 lbs!
She is roughly a 1lb under weight in my opinion(she is skin and bones)
She has been with us a week tomorrow and already is apart of the family! She isn’t as nervous as the first couple of days.
She has really calmed down and is eating now, but she doesn’t digest food??
I already knew from the woman who bought her from the abusive family that her stomach was sensitive she has special dog food, but doesn’t like it and only will eat cottage cheese.
She is starting to take table scraps, before she was to scared. I am not feeding her junk either, like ground beef and stuff is what I have been giving her things down that line.
I fed her pineapple the other night and a good 18 hours later she puked it up and it wasn’t digested at all!
Why isn’t she digesting. like I said she has really started to come around now, she snuggles kisses and is even playing!! Which I am thrilled to see. I have been working hard to help properly adjust her to her new and permanent home. I think it is working too.

What can I do to help her gain weight? She is literally skin and bones.
Also why isn’t she digesting things other than beef and cottage cheese? I have the calorie paste for hypoglycemia , because my other chi has it. Mollie really won’t eat that though. Pepper has learned to like it because when she gets sick we have to force feed it to her.

I just want to help rehabilitate this pup to the fullest, she is so sweet. Makes me sick that some one harmed her. She doesn’t bite at all either, just doesn’t have any self confidence. I can already see her picking it up from our 2 other cheeky dogs, a chihuahua and a pug.
Okay…she has been to a vet…she has prescription dog food.

She is digesting the cottage cheese and beef, I should have noted that sorry.

It just disturbes me that she can’t digest any thing besides that.

AGAIN SHE HAS ALREADY BEEN TO 2 DIFFERENT VETS, THEY BOTH DID THE SAME EXACT THING AND GAVE HER A PRESCRIPTION DOG FOOD.

there has to be something more I can do though, the more comfortable she gets the more I notice I can get her to eat.
Really no cottage cheese than?
The vet is who suggested this…now I don’t know what to feed her every one is saying different things. The pineapple was my idea, I didn’t know it was soul on her little tummy though. My other dogs love it.

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