Once mom is breed, it's about 64 days to whelping. In the last 30 days mom goes on a new diet. Puppy food, we feed Iam's or Purina One. This starts to fatten her up and lets face it, feeding 8 to 12 growing youngsters does take it's toll. We will keep her on it until her weight comes back up after the pups are weaned. Once the pups are born and fed, mom gets a good bath to clean-up and her litter area is scrubbed. Your local second hand store usually has good comforters cheap and carpet stores usally will help with carpet that has been removed from a business, there usually cleaned quite often and are usually better than carpet from homes, I wouldn't use that anyways. We got a load from a local bingo hall who recently replaced their carpet. Just cut a 10x10 piece and toss when dirty from the pups, goes great in the kitchen corner, cut another and your always clean. Time for the vet check, they look at the health and give shots and worming. The litter is registered with the AKC. Each pup is handled daily and we also try to put one alone in a room for an hour daily. Kinda gets them used to being alone and away from mom. At about 3 weeks we start to introduce moist soft food. What a feeding frenzy, must taste better than moms food. Once on that, there on there way to weaning, looks like they make more of a mess than they eat though. At about 6 weeks the pups milk mom out in a flash and with there teeth getting sharper, she will start to head for the hills. By eight weeks there ready to go to good homes, pups can leave mom at six weeks and do just fine but they seem to learn more in the last to weeks than they do in there whole life. I guess its that social order thing.

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