Is there anything more i can do to help our pit bull puppy live?

I'm sorry about what has happened. But you seem to be doing a great job! Make sure the environment the puppy is in iswarm (draught free) and clean. Chilling is the biggest killer of new born puppies who haven't got much fur and find it hard to regulate their body temperature. Their mother usually does a great job of providing warmth by allowing them to snuggle up to her. Still, if you provide external heating and warmth to ensure that the ambient temperature stays at a balmy 85 degrees Fahrenheit and stop the cold winds from chilling them, then they are much more likely to survive the early days.

Clean the whelping box daily. The box can get a tad dirty so make sure the bedding is kept clean by inspecting it daily and changing the bedding when necessary.

Newborn puppies are born with their eyes closed usually and these will open at about 2 weeks. This coincides with when their ears 'unseal' and they start to hear. Sometimes it will take a bit longer for their ears to 'unseal' but generally by week 4 they are well and ready to take in new sights and sounds. Week 4 is a milestone and you'll notice them taking their first cute little steps. Before then, moving around tends to take the form of crawling rather than full on walking on all 4s. Puppies that are thriving should be putting on weight weekly. A lot of owners will start to wean puppies onto solid food at this stage. Note that initial puppy feeding is a messy affair. One way of limiting the mess is to put the gruel-like puppy food in a bowl in your bath tub, make sure you've got a rubber mat in there for them to get their footing and then introduce them to the food. If they don't fit in the tub then perhaps the shower recess. It makes for easier cleaning I can tell you! By about 6-8 weeks, puppies are ready for their vaccinations and worming and ready for new homes.

First off, your dogs should have been spayed/neutered to begin with so that you didn't have these puppies. You put the mothers life at risk by not having her vet checked during pregnancy and there is a good possibility you would now have 15 puppies instead of 1 if she had prenatal care. There is also a good possibility she still has a puppy inside of her that did not come out in birth and it will poison her and she will die. That is why all pets need to be vet checked before/after giving birth.

There is little more you can do for the puppy than you are doing. Keep him warm, keep him fed, keep him safe. Even if he is strong and begins walking and everything at 6 weeks he will HAVE to go to the vet to begin his puppy shots. If you do not have him vaccinated he will likely end up with a life threatening disease and die regardless of your efforts. If the mother is not correctly vaccinated and on the right preventatives then the puppies probably have terrible worms and that pup can catch anything the mom has. Puppy shots cost me appox $300 total over 4 office visits and neutering about $150. That is just part of being a responsible per owner.

Good luck. Please do not breed irresponsibly and if you can not correctly care for your pets then give them to someone who can.

If you're worried about the safety with the mom you could always try getting a puppy formula and bottle and bottle feed him. It's hard to understand the animal world and I don't say this happily seeing as I have a pit and would probably do the same thing you are, but you might want to consider why the mother is killing off her litter. Sometimes they can sense illness, or weakness, and that seems like it would be the natural thing. It would be good to see a vet, but I know it can be expensive. Try for a low cost clinic. A lot of the time they will work with you and set up payment plans. Th pup is going to need vaccines and de wormings.

So what's your question? File a complaint with the POLICE as well as the humane society each and every single time you feel their dog(s) is/are being a "threat" to your family. If they have multiple reports filed against them then the police will HAVE to take action against them at some point because if they don't and this dog hurts a person then they can be sued for knowing that the situation was likely to occur but not taking measures to make the neighborhood safer. Take them to court for the damages their dog has done. If your dog was on your property and their dog came onto your property and attacked her then you most likely have a cut and dry case where they owe you money and any court is going to side with you. Being able to prove that they knew their dog was a threat by providing copies of police reports from previous incidents would just be icing on the cake.

Do NOT feed your puppies cow's milk it will give the diarrhea and cause dehydration.

Do you realize that pit bulls are the most bred, the most abused and the first to be euthanised in shelters. Do you realize that pit bulls dominant shelters?

Nearly all lived short, brutal lives of suffering before dying, alone and terrified ... don't ad to this.

Get your dogs fixed for God's sake!

She ate her own puppies?? O_O That's odd, but not too uncommon.

...there's really only two reasons that the mother would eat her own puppies though...

a) they were already dead

or

b) they had something wrong with them, and the mother could tell. Think of it as her trying to end their misery and her trying to fuel herself for her surviving puppies. It's sad, but it happens :(

As for the 6 being still born, that's not uncommon for such a large litter. Especially for her first litter.

The other 2 puppies probably died from birth defects or something too.

The last surviving puppy will probably NOT be killed by his mother, though there is no way to prove it, so watch him with her.

I'm glad you're letting the mother clean him, because it's VERY important for the puppy to be cleaned by his mother :)

I'm sorry to say, but the chances of the puppy surviving are probably not too good :( If the mother shows agression towards this puppy, or tries to kill it in front of you, take it from her and take it to a shealter.

They will take care of it there and you probably won't have to pay a thing. Please understand though, that after you give it to the shealter, that the puppy is no longer yours. He will be cared for there though :)

After all of this, a lesson was probably learned that you should always, ALWAYS spay your female/male dogs. For your grandma's pits own safety, please have her spayed and your male nutered.

If you can't have one or another spayed or nuetered, be VERY careful she doesn't get pregnant again by keeping them away from each other.

Best of luck with your little puppy and I hope he makes it :)

Ask your vet what else you can do. You have to take the mother dog to the vet after birth in case she has an infection and take the puppy too, it still needs vet care. Here is a list of organizations who will help with veterinary bills:

Veterinary Financial Assistance

American Animal Hospital Association

http://www.aahahelpingpets.org/root/

Angels 4 Animals

http://www.angels4animals.org/

Care Credit

http://www.carecredit.com/

Feline Veterinary Emergency Assistance

http://www.fveap.org/sys-tmpl/door/

God's Creatures Ministry

http://www.all-creatures.org/gcm/help-cf...

Help-A-Pet

http://www.aahahelpingpets.org/root/

IMOM

http://www.imom.org/

The Pet Fund

http://www.thepetfund.com/

United Animal Nations

http://www.uan.org/index.cfm?navid=28

Handicapped Pets

http://www.handicappedpets.com/Articles/...

Before you incorrectly think HereX is an expert here's the site she's copying and pasting from http://www.ask-the-vet.com/dogs/17/Newborn-puppy-c...

keep him on her milk keep him warm when its cold and let off the heat lamp when its chilly other than that yall are doing great

you gotta take him to the vet though, other than that ur doing fine! sell ur house then u will have enough money.