Puppy question?

my dog had puppies exactly 3 wks ago, and she is already trying to wean them , is this normal?


these puppies are huge already, they have teeth , they are getting around real well and are able to eat and drink on their own, but aren't they a little too young to leave the mother?


she still lets them nurse sometimes just not as often as they would like

Puppy question?
You want a litter of puppies chewing on you with those sharp little teeth?





Momma dogs usually know better than we do that its time to wean their babies. She is doing whats right, especially if they are eating well and are fat and healthy.
Reply:yes, it is alright.
Reply:You should let Nurse till they are at least 6 weeks
Reply:yes, it's normal. Your dog should know what she's doing with her pups...it's motherly instinct.





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Reply:You dog just want the puppies to be independent
Reply:yes but they're too young to be completely on their own....6-8 weeks is good for them to be completely on their own
Reply:your female thinks its normal and the time is right.. so you can feed puppies 3 times a day .. all will be fine.. your female needs a break.. let puppies nurse 2 a day .. morning and night ..4 about another week .. it will take the mom about aweek 2 dry up.. with no nurse done through that week..
Reply:yes.. it's alright..
Reply:In most kennels, puppies get the first taste of food other than Mom’s milk at about 3½ weeks of age. This may seem early to you, but after working with numerous breeders and seeing many litters raised in our own homes, we can guarantee that the puppies of any breed can take food on their own at this age. To make a puppy mush, we stay with the same brand of food the mother is fed, selecting the company’s dry puppy food. It might be Iams, Purina, Science Diet, Nature’s Recipe, etc.





Prepare the puppy mush by placing 2 cups of high quality dry puppy food in a blender with 12.5 oz liquid puppy milk replacer and fill the rest of the blender with hot water. This should be blenderized until the consistency of human infant cereal. (This feeds 6-8 puppies of a medium-sized breed.) The puppies should receive 3-4 meals a day of this to start. Once the puppies have checked it out, walked in it, and have eaten some, the dam can be allowed to finish it and clean the puppies off. Each week, increase the amount of food, decrease the amount of the milk replacer and water that is added, and the time of blenderizing, so by 7 weeks, the puppies are eating dry food.





Once they are on dry food, it may be left in with the puppies (when the dam is out of the box) or the meal times can continue. As the puppies eat more solid food, the ***** may be let away from the puppies for an even longer period of time. By the time they are 6½-7 weeks, they should be fully weaned from the dam's milk, eating dry food, and drinking water.





If the weaning is not rushed, the ***** will naturally start decreasing milk production as the puppies increase their intake of solid food. As the puppies begin eating the puppy mush at 4 weeks of age, start changing the *****'s diet back to adult food to also help her decrease milk production. Start by replacing 1/4 of her puppy food with adult food. Keep increasing the adult food and decreasing the puppy food until by the 8th week postpartum, she is eating only adult food. During the last week of weaning, the dam's food consumption should be less than 50% above the maintenance levels and declining toward maintenance levels.





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Reply:"A mother knows best!"


She knows when it's time for her brood to be independent.


As long as they are able to feed on their own, then it's their time to do so. As you can see she is still attracted to them as her own charges but like a mother he knows when to push them out into the world.
Reply:yes they are way to young to leave the mother they will stay with here untill they are 8 weeks old until then you can start them on eating can puppy food and only give it to them at night and in the morning



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