Julia Tompson

I have a couple questions about puppy development.

I have heard a few different ideas about when you should introduce food and water to a puppy but nothing all that conclusive.

My pups will be 3 weeks tomorrow. When should I start feeding them and what do you breeders feed them during the first couple weeks?

Also... I have heard 21 - 28 days is the most critical time in a pup’s development and that nothing bad should happen to them during this time as it could forever scar them.

Well it is April vacation here and my young children are home and the house is much noisier then normal. The last couple weeks I have been keeping the puppies in a play pen downstairs and at night I have been bringing them up in my bedroom where they were whelped.

My question is... should I keep human traffic and the noise level to a bare minimum during this critical week or is a noisy environment with kids running and screaming okay at this point.

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