when do puppies stop drinking from there mom?

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when do puppies stop drinking from there mom?

Answer 1

Hi Shadowlink,
Hope this helps

Weaning Puppies The Right Way

Weaning is an important part of puppy care. Whether the puppies are being cared for by their canine mother or are being orphan raised, the method and timing of weaning can have lifelong effects on the babies. Learning how to wean can help the puppy develop emotionally and socially.

Timing is Everything

About 3 weeks after birth, the mother dog normally begins to evade the puppies and discourages nursing. At this time, the puppies also naturally begin to show a decline in the length of time they nurse. More of their time is spent exploring their new world.

At this point, it is time to start offering food for the puppies to sample. Even if the puppies are being orphan raised, begin offering food around 3 weeks of age. At this point, increased gentle human handling can improve the puppy’s physical and social development, and make them more accepting of people.

Feeding

At around 3 weeks of age, begin offering food to the puppies. Offer the puppies small amounts of soft food in a shallow dish.

(You can soften food by placing it in a microwave for a few seconds with a glass of water)

Up to this point, the puppies have been suckling to get their nourishment. Now, they need to learn to open their mouths and bite to get food into their mouths to be swallowed. Learning to do this results in some messy feeding times.

Puppies will typically walk and fall in the food dish. They may even try to nurse on the food, resulting in some pretty messy pups. Eventually, they learn normal eating behavior. Some people will place the food on a cookie sheet and place it in the bathtub and let the puppies learn. This allows for easy clean up.

Offer the food several times a day for about 30 minutes at a time. When the puppies no longer seem interested in the food, clean them up and put them back with their mother. During this time, allow the mother increasing time away from the babies.

Answer 2

They stop completely before six weeks (in general). However, as soon as the teeth start coming in, the mother will slowly break them from feeding from her. This can start as early as three weeks. It's best to start them with a little solid food at this point. For the larger breeds I'm used to, once the teeth are there, they are capable of eating dry puppy food (yes, even during the third week) but once you start this, they also need water. For smaller breeds, many give baby food, canned puppy food, or water-soaked dry puppy food to get them started. Also note that once they start eating a substantial amount of solid food, mother will stop cleaning up their messes and that will be your job from then on.

Answer 3

At about 3 weeks old start to occasionally offer "mush" food to them... Take a high-quality dry kibble puppy food and mix it with warm water & powdered goats milk replacer.

Let it soak until mushy. Then offer it to the pups... You may need to put some on your finger to get them interested. Keep mom out of the room because she will gobble it up! At 3 weeks old, maybe just try offering once a day - and let them nurse on mom the rest of the time.

Slowy (over days & weeks) start to add in more & more hard kibbles to the mush... Eventually they will get used to crunching on the kibbles. At 4-5 weeks old start feeding them more of the mush & kibble... About 3 meals a day. Mom should gradually start to discourage the pups from nursing on her.

By 6 weeks old they should not need mom at all anymore... They should be drinking water & eating dry puppy food. They should also go to the vet and be vaccinated & wormed.

At 8 weeks old they can go to their new homes.

Answer 4

Judy M nailed this right in the coffin, 3 weeks is the right age to wean the puppies off there mother, food with a bit of water to soften the food, there teeth are not strong enough for dry food yet and the mother will jump in the den once in a while to top of the nourishments in there diet, but when the pups get older the mother will not want to go near them cause they will all charge her and there teeth are sharp it discomforts the mother and you will notice her growling at the pups once in a while especially when all she wants to do is clean up the letter box and being attacked bye all her pups

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Usually when they start to have their teeth is when the mother will ween them. At about 4 weeks they should start to eat puppy food, probably about 3 times a day.

Answer 7

Female dogs wean their pups. But you can take them off anytime after 6 to 8 weeks, as long as you see them drink water by themselves, they can be weaned.

Answer 8

6 to 8 weeks, which is when they get their back teeth... nature's way of helping the process along : ) Start to offer puppy food moistened with water around 6 weeks, they'll catch on quick.

Answer 9

6 weeks I think

Answer 10

you can take them off of the mother at six weeks old. but if they are left with thew mother she will wean them off her self as they get older.she will snip at them and walk off fast everytime the try to nurse,and eventually they end up getting the picture!