When I am transitioning from momma to eating from a bowl, I usually start with Royal Canin Starter Mousse for puppies...it is a whipped puppy food, very tasty for puppies and easily digestable. I will make more of a thin formula by mixing in a little warm puppy formula or goats milk...puppy is just learning to "take a bite" to get food into his mouth....he is still "sucking" from the saucer, then he will learn to lick it up from the saucer, then lap it up....as he gets more profecient in lapping up and actually taking a bite and chewing, dont add as much liquid, just gradually the mousse from the can. Then I graduate to the RC canned puppy food, then to puppy kibble soaked with warm goats milk...it is soft kibble and is easily soluable in any liquid you add to it....then I graduate to the puppy kibble without the liquid.....it is easily chewed by puppies.....
Weaning and the transitioning takes a while...let momma give you all the help she will! Everything she does with that baby standing there with her, she is teaching and showing her baby how to do it....I LOVE watching mommas teach these babies!!! |