article_snippet: The last pup, at almost a year old, weighed just 23 pounds - a third of what it should have.
article_snippet: Matassa explained pups that should be gaining 20 to 40 pounds in a two-month period have put on just two pounds. '
article_snippet: Feeding: Once rescued, pups who are healthy enough to be saved are fed formula to help pups who are healthy enough to be saved put on weight .
article_snippet: A starving pup, weighing a third of what it should have done, looks out from a playpen at the Pacific Mammal Center.
article_snippet: The pups, scientists believe, are weaning The pups early out of desperation and setting out on The pups own despite being underweight and ill-prepared to hunt. '
article_snippet: The pups're showing up on the beach basically ... starving to death,' said Justin Viezbicke, a coordinator with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's California Stranding Network.
article_snippet: Each incoming pup has the Pacific Marine Mammal Center temperature taken and is weighed, measured and given a blood sugar test before the team decides if the team can save a blood sugar test.