Really weird baby...

[TheSnakeEye]

Here's a way that might be easier to understand.

If you have a tape worm. You can eat and eat and eat. You won't gain weight, you won't grow.

You will STARVE

BUT you are eating. Your body is starving and you will eventually die of "starvation".

You are "starving" your body of nutrients.

That's probably what happened here. There was something wrong with this baby. He ate and ate and ate, but his body was starved for nutrients because they weren't being absorbed.


You can eat, but still starve.

Using your puppy example.

I rescued my first dog. full of tape worms. He ate 6 cups of food a day. More than he should at his age. 8 lbs (shepherd) pup (very thin).

He DID NOT gain weight. He ATE AND ATE AND ATE.

It took 6 rounds of de-worming to get him to be rid of tape worms. But his body took 2 years to recover. He looked emaciated for 2 years, like he was being starved.

If your dog was born with worms, there's a good chance all his littermates had worms as well... In this case none if Miami's other ASF's looked sick. Not to mention it was born funny looking. Even dog's that are born with worms or develop them young still apear normal physically. I'm sure he got all the nutrients it needed, he just wasn't meant to grow. Same thing with people who have dwarvism, they can eat all they want but they're not growing.

Unfortunately we do not know why this poor little guy was born like that, all we can say is he was sick and after given a second chance, he still couldn't make it. Just because he stopped growing, we can't automatically assume COD was starvation. So unless someone wants to do a biopsy on him, just give it rest already.