West Highland Terrier Puppies

My mum recently got a 6 week old West Highland Terrier as a gift since she had always wanted a dog. It was difficult to adjust to having a puppy at first since we had never lived with a dog before. He is now learning to got to the toilet in a specific place and was behaving very well up until last week.

He is now almost 9 weeks old and he bites everything and everyone. We expect that from a pup since he is going through a learning phase and is teething, and the vet advised that we are firm with him and we tell him ‘no’ and put him in his bed when he does this. Today, he made 3 attempts to bite me, and I followed the vet’s instructions. My mum told me off for doing this, but I am frightened his behaviour will get out of control and he will snap at a child when he is old enough to walk outside.

What should I do in this situation? I am not willing to let him bite me just because he is a pup. My mum tells me not to tell him off, yet she leaves me to look after him the majority of the time.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

It hasn’t help that you got him at 6 weeks old you go him from a bad breeder no responsible breeder would allow a puppy to leave before 8 weeks . It maybe only two weeks but they learn very important social skills from there mum and litter mates. And puppies which leave to early are more prone to have behaviour problems when older. Your whole family need to work together to make this puppy grows up to be a well behavioured dog. Biting and nipping is natural but when he does it you need to let out a sharp yelping noise and remove yourself from the puppy and ignore him till he has calmed down. It takes time and everyone needs to do it or all the puppy will do is get confused and that is total unfair on the puppy. Puppies need to learn from the start what is and isn’t allowed. You whole family need to sit down and talk about this so everybody works together for the sake of the puppy. Your mum needs to start training the puppy or it will end up out of hand and like so many puppies that have terrible owners in a rescue. I would also advice that you enrol him in a puppy class i know he isn’t old enough as his isn’t old enough to be fully vaccinated yet but they get booked up so a good idea to pre- book for when he is. They are great fun for both puppy and owner and are a very important part of get the puupy started on the right track.

i would like to feed him with Hill’s puppy food, how much should I be giving him daily? Monty gets fed twice a day am and pm. The sample food i received from the vets does not give advice on the amount. Can anyone help?

It really depends on how much he weighs. Assuming that he’s 10 pounds, you should feed him 1 1/2 pounds. If he’s more than that, 20 pound puppies should be fed 2 1/2 cups. Feed him 3 times a day. Hope I helped, and good luck!

so i dont have a dog, yet but were thinking of getting a west highland terrer. if its a girl i love the name Ellie. what do you think of that

i think its cute. what about grace. or gracie? i saw a pic of those dogs and that name came to mind