Sometime between three and four weeks of age I start giving them Welpie which is, in my opinion, the best bitches milk substitute. The thickness of double cream. I put it in saucers. At first they generally just wade through it and make a dreadful mess, eventually they get the idea and start lapping it. At this stage I add Arden Grange weaning food to form a porridge, but any reputable weaning food will do. All this time the bitch is generally stillfeeding them. By five weeks they are entirely on the weaning puppy food, still as a porridge, and at six weeks I keep them away from the bitch while she dries up. At seven or eight weeks, I change to a good puppy food. My present litter are being fed 'Fish4Dogs' puppy food. They are on this when they go to their new homes at eight weeks. I keep them on puppy food until they are at least six moths, when I change to Junior food, and at twelve months they move to adult food.

Four meals a day from three weeks to ten weeks, three meals a day from 10 weeks to six months, then two meals a day for the rest of their lives.

I have had Border Terriers since 1975.