"fat boy" is now 5 weeks old and just starting to eat from a bowl :rolleyes:
he eats what he wants ( which is everything and always wants more) and leaves a clean bowl, he also drinks water now .
  the problem is he still has his bottle 3 times a day ..... how do i wean him off it ?

You gradually cut out the bottle. The litter I hand reared were just getting a morning and night 'comfort bottle' with less milk than they would have liked at 5 weeks. By 6 weeks they only got a brief suckle of the bottle at night and by 7 weeks they were off the bottle altogether. I made sure they always had plently of clean drinking water, kept a close eye on their weights and continued to give them their complete food with some puppy milk right up to 8 weeks. After that they got complete food and water only.

i've started to just give him 3 bottles a day .
he has plenty of fresh water and normal puppy food.
and ty for you advice

fearmeforever not everyone here is a breeder, some of us are just dog owners that have come across some problems and are asking other ppl for help who might of had the same problem with thier dogs

That was a troll who regularly reinvents themselves and pesters the board from time to time, use the ignore feature for such people it is lovley.  Click on their name, then click the ignore option :D

thank you

i did wonder where the ignore button was :rolleyes:

ok one more question ( blonde moment forgot to put this here)
"fatboy" is still in our bedroom of a night :rolleyes: when can we put him downstairs and leave him there all night on his own so to speak?hez just over 5 weeks old now 6 weeks on monday