is it ok to wean pups with soaked weetabix?

Weetabix really won't do anything for them, no goodness in it for pups. Far better to use for instance raw mince or a good quality puppy food thoroughly soaked and turned into mush. Or a canned puppy food. I've used it all.

I've never used Weetabix & for the life of me I cannot understand why anyone would want to. I've used baby rusks soaked in puppy/goat's milk sometimes for a breakfast when just starting weaning, otherwise I used raw minced steak, chicken etc

Personally I'd prefer to use Weetabix rather than baby rusks to thicken the milk to make it stay on the tongue better. Rusks are very high in sugar, which can give the runs!

I wouldn't use either -nor puppy milk -have had nothing but diarrhoea whenever I've tried that. The pups get the milk they need from their mum. :)

Weetabix really won't do anything for them

Ditto, never understood these cereal starters some give their pups, they are dogs not babies, they like meat and protein foods. Those who make our good quality puppy foods have put every protein, vitamin, mineral etc. everything our puppies need in their food just leave it to soak in warm water and then mash it up, add goats milk to it if you wish to make it nice and sloppy, though I always start my pups off on scrambled egg, made with goats milk, nice and slushy, they gobble it down so fast (whilst having a swim in it ;-) ) remember to pop newspaper under the feeding bowls or in a place where you and your bitch can clean up well afterwards, weaning pups are very messy eaters. :-D

Raw mince as suggested is always a favourite of mine too. :-)

Start of with mince and they will love it, maybe chicken on the bone raw to give them something to knaw on and then mum picks up the scraps. Dont understand people using readybrek and things dogs dont eat that, they eat regurgitated mummy food. I agree with the milk puppy milk gives them the runs and mums milk is far greater.

> I agree with the milk puppy milk gives them the runs and mums milk is far greate

I have never had a problem using a goats milk based formula, both pups and Mum love it.

I've never had any problems with any kind of milk with any of mine.

I use raw mince and tripe mixed to wean my litters, used to use a special puppy porridge but they used to go iff it after a few days, i then gradually add soaked dry puppy food, never had a problem weaning them

I weaned my pups on raw mince, and goats milk with no problems, then they progressed onto chicken wings, also a puppy food.

My boy was on weetabix (from the breeder) when i got him i had no end of digestive problems with him - still do. The vet couldnt believe the breeder fed him on weetabix for his breakfast right up until i got him as a pup. It is a myth or old wives tale that pups have weetabix and milk, as someone said they are dogs not babies

I have a litter just over 3 weeks old, and have found them crawling to Mum's dish.  Tonight I tried mashing tinned puppy food and putting it on a flat plate.  Mum was up the garden, so I thought I'd give it a go before she could snaffle it.

What a time waster!  :-)  Don't you just love watching them?  Some only had a sniff, others licked for ages.  Tiny girl went straight in and acted like a glutton.  They are so different even this young.  I don't give weetabix at all.  Just dog food, although I do get them on fish and chicken, scrambled egg etc.

> Some only had a sniff, others licked for ages.  Tiny girl went straight in and acted like a glutton

did some of them decide it was a bath :)? every litter of pups i;ve ever seen there is usually one at meals who decides that a mince paths a great idea

> did some of them decide it was a bath :-)?

Yup!  The best bit was when the little girl was eating her fill while lying in it.  Asleep afterwards on her back, the rest were licking it off her tummy.  Oh it sure beats doing the ironing!  :-)  :-)

> Asleep afterwards on her back, the rest were licking it off her tummy

pmsl! what an image

Try puppy porridge, you can get it from pedigree online, then start them on tinned food.

Well we've always used it but only as one meal, they also have raw mince, egg, a good dried food etc and never had any problems with any dogs doing it this way.  My parents and now me have done it this way for over 30 years and has never done any of ours any harm.