Many puppies with cleft palate will be euthanized soon after birth because of feeding difficulties. In fact, if the owner can feed the puppies with tubes and help them start eating solid food as soon as possible, then these puppies can survive.
Depending on the type of cleft palate, surgery may be necessary, but it is usually an expensive operation with low success rate.
When the puppy does not gain weight normally after birth, or the diet is not very good, the owner should pay attention to whether the dog has cleft palate. When a dog drinks milk, the milk may flow out of its nose, or it may cough and vomit when breastfeeding. These are the key indicators of cleft palate.
There are several different types of cleft palate. If you can't see anything unusual in the dog's mouth, you need to check the inside of the mouth. Dogs with cleft palate will have an opening at the top or back of the mouth, which may require a special oral examination tool called laryngoscope to observe, especially puppies or small dogs, and occasionally need to use sedatives to check this abnormality.
Dog:
Dogs are domesticated by wolves. As early as the era of hunting and gathering, people have domesticated dogs as hunting assistants. So dogs are the earliest domesticated domestic animals.
Dog bones have been found in Cishan, Wu 'an, Hebei, Peiligang, Xinzheng, Henan, Hemudu, Yuyao, Zhejiang, which proves that it has a long history of domestication. ?
The dog-shaped scorpion unearthed from Sanlihe River in Jiaoxian County, Shandong Province is vivid and lifelike, which makes us see the morphological characteristics of domestic dogs in Neolithic Age.
The dog bones unearthed from Anbanpo site in Xi 'an, Shaanxi, have small skulls, protruding frontal bones, small cracked teeth and curved horizontal edge of mandible, which is quite different from that of North China wolves, indicating that the history of human domestication of dogs is indeed very early.