September 20, 2012

               I think the puppies have decided that ABBA’s Super Trouper should be their theme song and all they’ll do is eat and sleep and sing.  Actually, most of them are already up on all 4 feet lurching around when they are looking for the milk bar.  SammieDoodlebug is sitting up to nurse some of them now.  She left the pen for a minute or two here and there; and even let Jill in with her.  There wasn’t any stiffness between the girls but I’m not going to let it go unsupervised just in case.

               The pupsters are being very vocal these days but in a very cute way.  Sometimes it sounds like they are almost barking.

               Dog Cindi took Jack and Jill out to play yesterday.  Jack and Jill were happy to get to go run and play a little and earn a shower.  Jack got to run and run and retrieve and retrieve, he doesn’t have much concept that 10 year old dogs are supposed to slow down and has been very bored with only playing in the house and dog yard for the last week.  JillyBean even did a little wading in the pond.

               We didn’t think Doodlebug would be interested but she did go to the door and sit and fuss a little (going to the pond is a BIG DRAW for Sammie.  Even if she really wanted to go, she can’t because of her stitches) but as soon as a puppy squeaked, she was right back in there with them.  She spends more than 23 hours a day in the pool with them.

               It is difficult making sure to get enough calories in Doodlebug each day.  Poor thing has to eat and eat and eat.  Just for reference, if she were eating only EVO, she would still have to eat more than 8 cups per day to get enough calories.  She is actually eating a combination of raw and some kibble plus a lot of eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese and goat milk.  Tomorrow, she starts needing over 5,000 calories per day.  That’s a lot of eating and it’s all going to puppy weight.  We had at least 10.45lbs of puppy last night.  I caught most of them sleeping so I could get their weight before they started wriggling around too much.  I did puppy yoga right after they nursed so there was very little protesting.

               They have a photo session scheduled for this evening so there will probably be pictures up soon.