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yorkiemom1970 · 03-20-2006, 10:14 AM

I begin my weaning process at 5 weeks. I offer puppy gruel and when they start taking to it, mom will want to nurse less. But pups won't! LOL. They will nurse as long as mom will allow it. (and i let them nurse all they want until i have them on VERY thick gruel) By 6 weeks, they should be eating their gruel (which i call puppy mush) fairly well. Once you get them to that point...start dropping in a few peices of hard puppy food in with it. Scatter it around. By 7 weeks, you should have them completely weaned and starting to crunch on their hard food right along with their mush. I decrease the thickness of my puppy mush a few days at a time. I have 7 wk old babies now that are totally eating dry food! Mom will have no part of nursing them now, although she still wants to clean them and sleep next to them.

03-20-2006, 10:14 AM	#3
yorkiemom1970 No Longer a Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,947	I begin my weaning process at 5 weeks. I offer puppy gruel and when they start taking to it, mom will want to nurse less. But pups won't! LOL. They will nurse as long as mom will allow it. (and i let them nurse all they want until i have them on VERY thick gruel) By 6 weeks, they should be eating their gruel (which i call puppy mush) fairly well. Once you get them to that point...start dropping in a few peices of hard puppy food in with it. Scatter it around. By 7 weeks, you should have them completely weaned and starting to crunch on their hard food right along with their mush. I decrease the thickness of my puppy mush a few days at a time. I have 7 wk old babies now that are totally eating dry food! Mom will have no part of nursing them now, although she still wants to clean them and sleep next to them.