My pit bull puppy is about 8 months old now and hasn't gained weight in the last month an d and 1/2 I am very concerned cause she should be pretty stacked being a pit but she is petite which is fine my concern is that i can see her back bone and ribs.... don't get me wrong i love my dog and i feed her daily and she eats about a bowl a day of dry puppy food. she isn't putting weight on and i wanna know if anyone knows anything about a way to help her gain some weight.

PLEASE HELP

-raCHELADA

N0help4u

Was she ever checked for parasites/worms?
Does she have fleas?

raCHELADA

yeah i went through those options she was been dewormed twice since she was born and i just did another dewormer and finished up yesterday so i am going to check her "stuff" when i get home to see if worms was the case.... she doesn't have fleas cause i put the flea medication on her like the box says.

krissyg2991

How much and what do you feed her?
Certain Wal-mart brand foods just don't cut it.
(Ol' Roy, etc)
She definitely needs to be on a puppy food to help her grow. Something like, IAMS, Eukanuba, Science Diet, or Beneful. Also, certain Wal-mart brand, over-the-counter dewormers and flea meds (except frontline) don't work either. For example, Hartz, is horrible. I'd recommend taking her to a vet, who may or may not decide to run a fecal flotation test to look for parasite eggs, and getting some dewormer containing something like strongid-t or ivermectin. At our clinic we charge $8 for 1 cc. of dewormer, so it's fairly cheap (and banana flavored!!) Depending on your vet and what he/she thinks he may opt for more of a tablet but either way, it shouldn't be horribly expensive if it is worms and I highly recommend getting a veterinary professional to check her out and treat her.

krissyg2991

Be sure to take a fecal sample to the vet also, because it really helps. Not all worms are easily shed in the feces either, so the only way to tell would be to test for worms without visual evidence of them in the feces is to run a fecal flotation test, which detects the eggs, which are always easily shed in feces.

blackblue

Sometimes pups take a while to gain weight.

Is she spayed?

raCHELADA

no she isn't...would that be part of it...like i think that she should be heavier but like she always has food and i see her eat, and she hyper and happy and stuff so its not like she is miserable its just me cause other pits are so much bigger then her...could it be she is just taking longer to devlope? she hasn't even had her first heat yet

jAZZyJAY

actually i'm having the exact same problem with my 5month old pit pup. actually alot of these suggestions make since so i'm just gonna take her to the vet this weekend and get their opinion.
thanx though.

chinoman101

give her some meat from pedigree and dry food mix it and she sould gain some weight