Our puppies' mommy pukes up her meal onto the floor for the puppies to eat

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

WTF is that all about? Ya got milk that they nurse, and we feed them plenty of puppy gruel and stuff. Gross...

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. Natural pack behavior

She's bein' a good mom.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. I guess... I can't believe how vigilant she is over them, wants to KILL

our other dogs.

I guess she's a pretty good mom. It's almost 7 weeks now, I think she's close to weaning, I'm amazed she tolerates them nursing, they have little sharp teeth by now.

[Fredda Weinberg]

3. You've got a pack - she might behave less instinctively if

the other canines weren't around. Only the alphas breed, so your new mom has a social role to play. Relax and enjoy the Natural Geographic special.

Cute puppies.

[BikeWriter]

5. She knows what she's doing. ;-)

[fleabert]

9. re: the teeth issue

mammals don't use their teeth to nurse. Nursing moms who will scream at me for saying so should note that human babies do it on accident once, and from then on to get a reaction out of mom, they think it's hilarious. It usually happens at the exact same time they are learning cause and effect, and that they can cause things to happen around them. :-) Halting nursing immediately after a bite a few times usually works to keep them from doing it.

the tongue is used to press the milk out of the nipple from the back of the soft palate all the way up the roof of the mouth, suction keeps the nipple in place. A properly latched nipple stretches all the way back to the soft palate, fun fun fun! The stimulation of nursing brings the milk from the ducts to the nipple.

(just had to use my Breastfeeding Specialist education, it doesn't come up often. :-)

[xchrom]

12. great pics -- and what a wonderful mommy!

i love dogs -- and you have a doozey.

[lavenderdiva]

4. she is teaching them to eat big dog food...

much like human mommies wean their babies off of milk, and onto baby food, before they go to 'real food', the mama dog is chewing up and spitting out her food to teach the babies to eat. They are too small to eat real food yet, so it is her version of baby food. It is part of the process of weaning them off of her....

[electron_blue]

6. well bless her heart

still, I kwym.

[u4ic]

7. I love your cute puppies, M_M!

Parrots love to do the same to their favourite companions...nothing says "I love you" more than barfing...:rofl:

[leftofthedial]

8. can't beat mom's cooking!

mmmmmmm.

:puke:

[TheBaldyMan]

10. That's weaning, also how dogs say hello

A young couple came round to see my new flat and their dog hurled in the corner of my living room. I think the dog liked me.

[jukes]

11. weaning.

natural technique for animals to ready their young for solid food.

i imagine humans practiced at some time before Gerber (tm)

[mzteris]

13. don't you guys

ever watch Animal Planet?

:)


This is old behaviour - wolves, wild dogs, etc. do this, too. If you had the daddy dog there, or other adult dogs part of the pack - THEY would throw up food for the puppies. It's partially digested so they can eat it - kinda like Gerbers for human babies. (Birds do this, too.)

Aren't you glad we don't have to barf up food for our kids?

In fact, the reason puppies lick PEOPLE on the face is they want them to regurgitate for them.

[LibertyLover]

14. Very cute puppies

and a good mother too. It's how puppies are introduced to eating solid food and she is being a very good mom by regurgitating food for her pups. A couple of years ago, we adopted a female greyhound and a few months later got an 8 week old whippet puppy. Our greyhound bitch immediately began to care for the puppy as if she had given birth to him, keeping him warm, playing with him and regurgitating food for him. To this day one of their signs of affection and, in the case of the whippet, submission, is for the whippet to like the greyhound's mouth like he used to when he was a puppy and wanted food.

[peekaloo]

15. Ahhhh....nothin' says lovin' like goodness from momma's oven.

nature came seem so nasty at times.