[Yorkiemom1]

Are these Yorkies? When you think "the mother does not pay much attention to them anymore", she may not be nursing them, but she is teaching them pack etiquette and behaviors and cues that enable these babies to interact with other dogs as well as the Alpha human that one day they will make so happy. She of course, must be allowed to remain with the puppies and NOT removed from them. At 12-14 weeks, the mother will really start to push them away from her, "cutting the apron strings" herself, and sending her precious little ones out into the world, well equipped, physically, mentally, and emotionally, to survive and get along in any future "packs" these babies live in. Do not deny these babies this education from their momma....they will pay for it later in life.