I’m
getting really good at counting to ten.
Wonder if that will help me stay calm throughout the rest of my
life. My goodness, these puppies are
cute and so very sweet. They eat a lot
and THE Mama is keeping them nice and clean and well fed. The puppy box is almost irresistible. The only one of us who isn’t highly interested
in them is Jack and he has better things to do.
He probably realizes it’s only a matter of time until they are big
enough to take his toys.
I gave
Doodlebug a quick shower today and force dried her coat a little before I let her
back in with the babies so they wouldn’t get cold. It didn’t take long and I put the fleece pad
in the pool when she came back. SammieDoodlebug
the Princess (Jill has always been the queen) is accustomed to being wrapped in
a towel after her shower so that helped keep everyone warm enough as well. As soon as I put them on the fleece, the
puppies started rooting around to see if they could nurse on it but they
bellied up to the bar pretty quickly.
If SammieDoodlebug isn’t in the whelping box,
she’s perfectly content to have Jack and Jill around and doesn’t bat an eye but
she is still spending most of her time in the pool. I’ve been feeding her in there which is part
of why she needed a bath, she had yogurt and cottage cheese and other such
delights in her hair ;-( I still gave her
one of her lunches in the pool but I covered her hair with a towel. I think she might need a bib or she might start
taking her meals out of the pool. With 10 little mouths to feed, a few are
almost always nursing so I hate to make her leave to eat. She may be a little spoiled but she’s saving
me a lot of work by feeding them all and cleaning up after them.
While I
had her in the shower, grand dam Jill supervised the puppy pool. Cindi let her check on the puppies and
surprisingly, she just checked them from the side of the box and then arranged
herself in a supervisory position on the dog bed couch. We were worried that she would try to take
over the puppies (she was a VERY good mother, too) and that SammieDoodlebug wouldn’t take kindly to that but they’ve been
fine. If one of the puppies makes a noise,
you can tell whether or not to worry about it by how the girls react to
it. I often check anyway but it’s nice to
have backup.
The
puppies have definitely started to do some tail wagging while they nurse. They’ll be nursing and those little tails
will be up and wagging furiously. A few
of them have white tip on the end of their tail that we didn’t notice
initially.
The pink
girl is going to get a collar like everyone else’s since I got the permanent
markers and colored the white ones for her.
I got metallic silver markers for the grey puppy’s but it doesn’t show up
much either for me. I think it might
become light green or light blue. I got
a lot of colors so when dog Cindi wakes up from her nap, I’ll see what she
thinks it prettier. I’ll still have to
do a little test patch to make sure it will be different enough for me to see
it. When I get that straightened out, I
will try to post a list of which puppy is which so you can follow the cast of
characters (at least until I give them each twelve nicknames like I do with the
other dogs…)
I’m
going to post this now so I don’t have such a hurry to do it right before my
shift to sleep tonight. There might be
another post today or it might be in tomorrow’s. I’m sure you will all be on pins and needles
waiting to hear what color grey becomes ;-)
Looking forward to it! :)
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