Week 4

Puppies are growing every day. They are becoming much more active and it is time that they start eating on their own. we start out with raw hamburger offer each puppy one ball they will suck it out of your hand. After they are accustomed to that we advance to rice meal for filler, then add in wet puppy food mashed up and gradually reduce rice meal as we increase puppy food and make the consistency less thick until they are eating puppy chow. This process takes about 2 weeks and by 6-7 weeks mama will no longer be feeding them. Mama knows that she does not have sufficient amount of milk to sustain these puppies so she starts to stand while feeding this is the beginning of the weaning process and it encourages balance and agility.