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Old 09-05-2008, 09:36 PM
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Re: taking pups away from mum?

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In general, I think that as the pups have more and more solid food, they don't need as much of mum's milk. It's also better for the mum if she is gradually put in to feed them less and less, as her milk starts to dry up gradually and she isn't left with huge teats full of milk and no puppies to feed.

With Evie, I started the pups on solid food at about 4 weeks, and aimed for Evie to stop feeding them altogether at about 6 weeks. That seemed to work - Evie's milk production dried up naturally and then the pups had two weeks for us to make sure they were ok on solid food before they went to new owners.
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i agree when i started weaning mine just took mum away when i offered food to pups eventually i kept molly away slightly longer intervals so she could dry naturally
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