Sunday, December 21, 2014 3 Weeks Old
Puppies are 3 weeks old today. All are over 3 pounds and doing great. We continue to trim their nails once a week. Kathleen came over Friday to visit and brought puppy's first meal and other supplies. Thank-you. Anyone who comes to visit, WE NEED NEWSPAPER. We have a stack but it will soon start going quickly.
We had planned to wait another week to start them on solid food. But...
Yesterday we gave each puppy a little one-on-one time to play and hang out with us. No siblings in the way. We took lots of pictures which I will be posting today.
During their private play time Pink explored the room and discovered Lila's food bowl. Pink took a bite and managed to eat some. We decided to try their baby food.
In the puppy pictures you will see the results. Everybody dove right in and had their first baby food not from Lila.
Also this week, everyone has their eyes and ears wide open. This has resulted in various puppies trying out their vocal chords. From barking to howling to just humming. We have had a range of noises. Some not at the best times... like 3 am. Brown decided to try out his coyote howl. We rushed down to the whelping room to find everyone fine. He was just "talking". Then Pink got in the game with a cute little "O" mouth and loud sounds. We are a little more tired this week.
Reddington, our boy puppy turned 3 months old this week. He is 39 pounds. Quite the comparison to the 3 week olds at 3 to 3 1/2 pounds. Lila has allowed Reddington to meet the puppies. He licks them... A Lot. She seems to think she is also his mommy. During Reddington's weekly nail trim, with the dremmel, he had a bit of a tantrum. Lila came rushing to his aide and supervised as we completed the job.
Lila is a Super Mom. She keeps the kids clean and fed. Allowed them to eat their puppy food while she looked on. When they had finished, I moved them back to their whelping box and signaled Lila to clean up the mess. She made sure all kids were good then washed the bowl clean.
Puppies are starting to romp and play more. They are trying to climb out of the whelping box so we attached the second box for the playpen. No one has made it over the door yet but Lila uses the extra side to sleep in peace while keeping watch over her kids. I have missed Lila at my side so much that I climbed in and she and I had a nice snuggle. Just the two of us, watching the puppies from the next box.
Puppies are 3 weeks old today. All are over 3 pounds and doing great. We continue to trim their nails once a week. Kathleen came over Friday to visit and brought puppy's first meal and other supplies. Thank-you. Anyone who comes to visit, WE NEED NEWSPAPER. We have a stack but it will soon start going quickly.
We had planned to wait another week to start them on solid food. But...
Yesterday we gave each puppy a little one-on-one time to play and hang out with us. No siblings in the way. We took lots of pictures which I will be posting today.
During their private play time Pink explored the room and discovered Lila's food bowl. Pink took a bite and managed to eat some. We decided to try their baby food.
In the puppy pictures you will see the results. Everybody dove right in and had their first baby food not from Lila.
Also this week, everyone has their eyes and ears wide open. This has resulted in various puppies trying out their vocal chords. From barking to howling to just humming. We have had a range of noises. Some not at the best times... like 3 am. Brown decided to try out his coyote howl. We rushed down to the whelping room to find everyone fine. He was just "talking". Then Pink got in the game with a cute little "O" mouth and loud sounds. We are a little more tired this week.
Reddington, our boy puppy turned 3 months old this week. He is 39 pounds. Quite the comparison to the 3 week olds at 3 to 3 1/2 pounds. Lila has allowed Reddington to meet the puppies. He licks them... A Lot. She seems to think she is also his mommy. During Reddington's weekly nail trim, with the dremmel, he had a bit of a tantrum. Lila came rushing to his aide and supervised as we completed the job.
Lila is a Super Mom. She keeps the kids clean and fed. Allowed them to eat their puppy food while she looked on. When they had finished, I moved them back to their whelping box and signaled Lila to clean up the mess. She made sure all kids were good then washed the bowl clean.
Puppies are starting to romp and play more. They are trying to climb out of the whelping box so we attached the second box for the playpen. No one has made it over the door yet but Lila uses the extra side to sleep in peace while keeping watch over her kids. I have missed Lila at my side so much that I climbed in and she and I had a nice snuggle. Just the two of us, watching the puppies from the next box.