How to wean a puppy?

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.
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