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[KateLMead]

He has special tinned puppy food and mix shell, plus other tit bits, I have been giving him a good feed around 7.30 again at mid day and then around 4.p.m. The vet said the puppy food and meat was sufficient, but I shall certainly feed him some scrambled egg ,weetabix sounds a good idea. The vet was not too keen on milk although I have given hima little twice a day as he was suckling his mother a week ago.. he is now eight weeks old.. Ah the joys of motherhood

[JoM]

Billy was 8 weeks old exactly when we got him and I think it was recommended that he had 150 grams of his Arden Grange puppy food daily, which Dogs Trust sent us home with, and that was split into 3 meals so 50g at breakfast, and the same around lunch and dinner times.
Finding treats for him was something I struggled with, he was below the recommended age for many of the treats in the shops. Pets At Home have a good range of puppy treats though and Pedigree Cheesy Bites were fine at that age, and Asda sell Harringtons puppy treats which he loved.

[Diflower]

Not milk I don't think Kate, but the rest yes fine And I agree, 4 meals a day probably.
Just google 'feeding 8 week old puppies' and you will find all sorts of good information. And do you go to the library, I used a couple of books for reference on all sorts of things.

Minnie never was a nipper, but a high-pitched 'ow' and looking hurt will often stop them in their tracks. Some puppies are dreadful, next door's little 'Jug' (pug x Jack Russell, ugly little thing!) would sink her razor-sharp teeth in straight away.

You would do well to get a baby gate (freecycle should get you one), or rig up some kind of barrier, so you can confine him easily within one room/part of a room. It's really not good for puppies (or for you!) for them to have the run of the house, or even the ground floor
But, be very careful that it's not something you will have to step over, you can all too easily trip on either it or him.

[miasmum]

Goats milk that's what they had I remember now. They used to have goats milk yoghurt too

[JoM]

I agree with Di, baby gates are a great thing to have with a puppy. We had one on our kitchen door when Billy was small, it's a shame you're not closer Kate as it's in the garage gathering dust.

Not sure whether I told you about Billy and his gate though? Whenever I went out I'd leave a treat on top of the hall cupboard to give to him when I came home providing he'd been a good boy, he'd be left in the kitchen with the baby gate closed. One day I came home from the gym and the treat wasn't there. I thought I was going crazy as I was convinced I'd put it there but obviously I couldn't have done and Billy was still behind his gate in the kitchen. After I'd played with him for a while I went upstairs for a shower, again leaving Billy in the kitchen with the gate closed. As I walked out of the bedroom after my shower I heard the familiar jingle of his tags on his collar and at that moment he rounded the bend on the stairs, wagging his backside off. Had I left the gate open? No. He'd clambered over the gate and come to find me, and he'd obviously clambered over while I was out, stolen his treat and clambered back over and into the kitchen again We took the gate down after that in case he hurt himself getting over it.

[miasmum]

See so clever, to do it in the first place, but so dumb to let you find out so soon

We had a baby gate for our dogs. Our Newfoundland just used to look over it and the cockers through it. Until the day H, my red cocker spaniel discovered you can push your head through the bars because your ears go flat, sadly coming back is a lot more painful

[KateLMead]

What wonderful posts from you all, so funny some of them, and so helpful.. I will try and take some pics today on my IPad.. If I cant I will get Gusty to try... What a wonderful response from every one. THANKS

[debih]

We had a babygate for Milie but the stupid cat was so scared of it we ended up having to take it down.

The cat would sit on the stairs yowling to be let through - she didn't think about jumping over the top of it. Silly thing.

[Weka]

We had baby gates for, we'll, the babies. But our stupid cats wouldn't jump over them either. Tried using it at our old house to stop the chickens getting in, but they just flew over the top.

[KateLMead]

Just had a bleeding nip off of him, out comes the iodine...