… and the winner is…

… Purple boy!   He is the first one to climb out of the whelping box on his own — a bit of a surprise, though he was in the running.   We were sitting right there as he was trying, though we weren’t encouraging him at all.  After he fell back a couple times we thought […]

Good puppies – nail grinder

Until now I’ve been using the human nail clippers on the pups, but because they are so wiggly I managed to quick a couple of them, and the nails still stayed somewhat sharp.   Now that the puppies are a little bigger, I tried using a Dremel.  Just now I used a corded Dremel with […]

Day 20 – “curiouser and curiouser”

The puppies are mostly active after feeding time, of which they get many.  They have sharp little puppy teeth now!   We are introducing them to different textured toys in the box, and they individually got “field trips” right outside the whelping box so they could test their legs in a different area.   Both girls and […]

Lots of pics

Don took some fun pics this morning while the puppies were in the Perla bed and I was cleaning out the whelping box and doing laundry.   I keep hoping the washer/dryer breaks so we can get a new set- one of those fancy front-loading ones.  This set has lasted for over 13… make that 15 […]

Puppy video

Here’s the video of the puppies, taken yesterday.  The puppies were 2 weeks, 2 days old.  Click on the photo to go to the video.  Enjoy!