Recipe for Puppy Porridge

If you are about to wean your puppies, then this post will provide our recipe for puppy porridge. Our puppies absolutely loved this, and although it gets quite messy, it’s a lovely experience watching and listening the puppies enjoy their food!

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First puppy porridge Day 24
Puppies eating their first puppy porridge

It’s been a momentous morning, the puppies have eaten their first puppy porridge!
We have been giving them puppy milk for the last week, but decided that it was time to start filling their tummies up a little bit more. Needless to say, the porridge was a great hit! A bit messy, but now that we have got the proper play pen surrounding the whelping pen, we have more room to serve breakfast, lunch and tea!

Recipe for Puppy Porridge

Here’s the recipe:
Makes 4 small bowls (multiply quantities where necessary)

You will need:
200 ml hot water (70C) to mix with milk powder
100 ml milk powder (we use Royal Canin, but use whatever brand you have, served at the appropriate quantities)
100 g dry puppy kibble (we use Beta Large breed puppy)

Method:


1. Soak the puppy kibbles in hot/boiling water for a few hours (overnight is good)
2. Once the water has soaked up into the kibbles, make up the puppy milk according to manufacturers instructions.
3. Put the soaked puppy kibbles into a blender and add the milk, blend.
4. Put the blended mixture into puppy bowls and serve.

Warning:
Make sure the puppy porridge is not too hot when served, it should be luke warm.

Resources for Puppy Porridge

If you are interested in the products that we have used to wean our puppies then you may find the following section useful.

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Puppy Play Pen

This is an absolute must, if you are planning on keeping the puppies in your house. It contains all the mess in one place and is very easy to move around if you need to. You can alter the shape of the pen, and make it smaller if needed. We bought the extra large pen, as we had 9 pups to accommodate! It is very strong, and we raised two litters in this. We’re going to be lending our pen to some friends very soon, for their pups.

Royal Canin Baby Dog Milk

We used this product for both our litters and had no problems whatsoever. You can expect to use a lot of this milk. We bought the extra large tins as we had large litters and needed the extra milk. The puppies loved it, and it made great puppy porridge.

Other brands of puppy milk

Rubber Matting for puppy play pen

I would strongly recommend that you buy some rubber matting for the base of your play pen. We have a stone floor, but even so, I still wanted to protect it from dog poop and pee. It makes things so much easier to keep clean. This rubber matting is particularly recommended for pets and cages, so it’s pet friendly. It can be chopped up and fitted to the size of your pen.

Mixer for blitzing the porridge

You will need a blender of some description to blend your soaked puppy kibbles and the baby dog milk together. Here’s the one I used, but its not particularly cheap. You might be able to find a cheaper alternative. When I used the mixer daily, the pups got used to hearing a bit of loud noise in the kitchen too!

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The Pitter Patter of Tiny Paws

We hope that you have enjoyed reading this post about Puppy Porridge. It was something that we found really useful when we managed two litters of puppies with our dog Tilly.

I kept a diary of what we experienced when we first bred Tilly and it might hold some useful nuggets of information for you. If you would like to read more, please start here. The Pitter Patter of Tiny Paws Part 1.