How do I make the best puppy weaning mush for my 3-week-old puppies?
Updated On September 23rd, 2025
Pet's info: Dog | German Shepherd | Female | unspayed | 1 year and 3 months old | 59 lbs
How to make puppy mush or gruel for 22 days old puppies? To start weaning them
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Published on April 8th, 2018
Mix a good quality puppy food with warm water or, better yet, a puppy milk replacer such as Esbilac or Pet-Lac. It should be very liquidy initially. As they mature, you can decrease the amount of liquid until they are eating solid food at around 10 weeks of age.
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Published on April 13th, 2017
At a month of age, your pup will need a puppy mush. To help her wean and to get used to dry food, I would soak a high quality puppy formulated dry food in warm water until soft. Then mix that with puppy formula such as KMR to make a mush the consistency of oatmeal. Over the next two weeks, gradually increase the amount of dry puppy food and decrease the amount of water and KMR you use until she is eating the dry puppy food only.
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