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Originally Posted by postalmom1987  Boy I guess I've been lucky with Krystal. She more or less called the shots. She just tappered off feeding them and I started dried puppy chow which they love. It's only been the last two to three days that she has been growling and snapping at them to stop them nursing. And she has had gradual shrinking in her teets. The pups are fine and even love broken up dog bones to crunch. I've cut her food back and stopped adding puppy food to her food. She's back to being more playful and running. I love seeing her do that and missed it while she played mommy.
Dion |
It all worked out. Gracie does want to eat their food and will jump into the x--pen and two of them will go after her to nurse, which she lets them for the 2-3 minutes it takes to gobble their food up!. The second born boy, he has no interest in nursing. They are all thriving and go for their first shots this coming weekend. They are eating kibble (still giving them the whole, kibble, rough chopped, and fine chopped + plus tiny pieces of chicken breast meat and puppy bones. They also still get a little goat's milk diluted with water, but they prefer diluted 1/2 and 1/2 (I found that out one evening when I ran out of goat's milk) She's back to running and playing with our other Yorkie and tries to play with the pups but she gets a little rough I think...but the first born boy plays rough with her and I think he nips her and it ticks her off! We had them out playing in the kitchen last night and he played too rough and she got after him and it made him mad, and then he went after her and they were nearly ready to fight - scared me) Due to being gone all day we have to keep them separated, (we blocked off the x-pen gate as high as we could so Gracie could jump in and out, (14") but now the one boy can climb that and I can't have him getting out while we're gone at work), so we close the gate, because she can't make it out if it went any higher - we can't keep Gracie in there all day as two of the pups won't leave her alone and I'm afraid she'll hurt them if trapped in that pen all day with 'em. We can't let them run loose as they'd be lost for sure in our house.
Anyway, yeah, I guess let mother nature take it's course. She was an exceptional doting mother the first 5 weeks, tapered off her "concern" this last couple weeks, still protective, but doesn't feel the need to be with them all the time.
Kendra