what do you feed an unweined puppy?

Answer 1

the best thing for a puppy is its mothers milk but when this is no lnger an option, it will need a milk that is specially formulated for dogs, to give them all the nutrients that the mother would be giving through her milk...any other animals milk wont gve the puppy the adequate amount of certain vitamins and nutrients that are essential to a young growing puppy.

Answer 2

Milk from the mother.
If the puppy isn't eating properly, you can buy replacement milk. There are also recipes on the internet that work. I had a littler of puppies where the youngest wasn't gaining weight like the others so I had to feed her through a syringe. I just made the replacement milk myself and she did wonderfully.
It's very important to make sure the puppies are all growing at the same rate, you should be weighing them daily. Kitchen scales are great when you're dealing with just a few pounds.
Depending on how old the puppies are, at least 3 weeks old, they should have access to a water dish and some puppy mush. Blend up some of mama's food (she should be eating puppy food anyway because it has more calories) make sure it's a pretty runny mixture that a puppy could easily eat. Just a little bit at a time, so they get used to eating food. As time goes by, they'll eat more and more food - and it should become more solid.

Answer 3

If the puppy is old enough to lick his lips you can teach it to
drink from a bowl. Poppy formula is ideal. Get its head down
near the bowl and get its food on - not in - but on the nose.
While his tong is working to get this liquid off his nose and
lips you can ease his head down so that his tong dips down
into his food. One or two laps and let him raise his head.
Repeat this about every half minute. Three to five tries and he
should be lapping on his own. When he is on his way you can
add a beaten egg to the mix. If Its a new born, you have your
hands full. You'll need something like a worm wet gauze to
to take the Mothers place in cleaning them up. You already
have some good advice on the use of a bottle and formula
so perhaps this can fill in any blanks.

Answer 4

There's puppy formula and there are baby bottles for pups and kits, if you need to feed them formula. Mama should start weaning pups at about 3-4 weeks, and finish weaning them about 6 weeks of age.

If you're asking about solids, you can start to put out soft dogfood, with water added to make it into mush at about 4 to 6 weeks of age. As they get better at eating it, you can reduce the amount of water added to the canned dog food.

The AKC link mentions how to add dry dog food to the pups' diet.

Answer 5

How to wean a puppy: The female dog has to take care of feeding the puppies until the time of weaning. She will also help the puppies find food as soon as they can do it. Even though domestication has taken the use of this teaching, the dog still has this behavior of searching for food. Another instinctive behavior that the puppies have consists in nibbling on the mother's nose to make her regurgitate crushed food. It is better that all the puppies stay with the mother until after weaning because that gives part to more balanced puppies in comparison to those who grow up alone. The drills of fighting, chasing, and hunting are aspects that contribute to the animal's future balance. Weaning happens when the puppy is old enough to take care of itself; this happens six weeks after the puppy is born. After this the female dog begins to drift away from the puppies so that less go to her to be breast fed, until she doesn't even let them get close to her teats. In the end weaning represents the end of the mother and puppy relationship.

The Orphan Puppy and Weaning: Once the behavior of the mother and her puppy has been studied, we will see how the development of the puppy proceeds after its link with the mother is broken and it establishes a new relationship with the owner. Nevertheless, we have to know what happens to the orphan puppy, which must be related to the owner since the beginning. Under these circumstances the owner will have to make an effort to substitute the mother, knowing that he must separate from the puppy when the time comes. It is until the first three weeks that the mother takes care of the whole group, and provides the puppies with warmth and food. In the case that the mother dies, or she is incompetent to take care of the puppies, then the owner must take her place.

Artificial Breast Feeding: The mother's milk is not the same as co

w milk, therefore it is not enough to get up every two hours and refill the puppy's bottles. The puppies need a kind of milk that can be digested correctly and that covers all their nutritional necessities. The puppies must be fed in a place which is calm, warm and emotionally alike to the one which the female would have chosen. Puppy's breast feed more than twenty times a day; this means that feeding the puppies will be intense. Puppies drink little by little, and if you give them too much to drink at once they will have diarrhea. The ideal thing is to reduce the number of times they feed a day during the next couple of weeks. At first we will feed them every two hours, except when we are sleeping. The milk is made with boiled water that has cooled down. To feed the puppies you will need to use a baby's bottle. A puppy must not feed for more than fifteen minutes, remember that they will drink and drink, so you must stop them. You will simply have to behave like if you were the puppy's mother, without exceeding yourself.


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.





For some mothers, you may have to be persistent. Some mothers and some babies may not wean properly. Mothers that do not begin to push away their puppies by 4 weeks of age will need help. Weaning should progress slowly, to reduce the incidence of anxiety and mammary gland inflammation in the mother.

Several times a day, remove the babies for 1 to 2 hours at a time. Food should only be offered for short periods of time but keeping the babies separate from the mother can encourage natural weaning. As the puppies age, more time should be spent away from the mother until finally, the puppies are on their own.

By the time the puppies are around 8 weeks of age, they should be eating solid food and no longer nursing. At this tender age, pups are ready for their new homes and life without their mother

Weaning Puppy With No Mom

Once the puppies reach 4-6 weeks or have become brave enough to
investigate beyond their den, it's time to add a puppy food to
their formula. Start with 1/4 food and 3/4 formula. Don't add too
much additional water because you will dilute the puppy's meal.

Answer 6

Mommy's milk
If Mom isn't available then use goat's milk or a good milk replacer like maternalac. If the dog is old enough to lick rather than suck your finger then start him/her on puppyfood slurpped down with goats milk or milk replacer.

Answer 7

go to walmart and get the cannned milk in the pet section for puppies or you can use goats mil in the can and feed by a baby bottle u can also use a can of puppy food and the milk and make a dish with it and let the dog make a mess with it you might have to put their face in it but dont get their nose in it casue it can clog their nose

Answer 8

they have puppy formula at petsmart. go to walmart and get a few real baby bottals and do as the can says. i dont recommend using the animal bottals somehow they just didnt work out on my pit/chow mix.

Answer 9

this depends on teh age of the unweaned pup