| If you want to save your orphaned Shih Tzu puppies | | | | temperature to 85 degrees after three or four |
| you must be totally dedicated to them on a | | | | successful days and you see the Shih Tzu puppies |
| 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week basis for the first few | | | | are stable. Slowly decline the temperature by small |
| weeks of life. Raising orphaned Shih Tzu puppies is the | | | | increments. After a week the temperature can be |
| most challenging and taxing task any Shih Tzu breeder | | | | slowly declined to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Maintain this |
| could undertake. Success is gratifying. | | | | temperature until the Shih Tzu puppies are three to |
| Maintain the Shih Tzu puppies in an incubator | | | | four weeks of age. After four weeks the temperature |
| environment with a temperature of at least 90 | | | | may be reduced to 75 degrees. |
| degrees Fahrenheit to start out. Reduce the | | | | |