The pupsters had a big day today. They did some eating and sleeping and playing. They got to be cuddled by humans Dog Cindi, Aunt Colleen and her nieces (8 and 9). And they sort of got to meet their canine Aunt B (she kept her distance for the most part).
We made their area larger again, I needed Cindi to connect the kid pens together AND she informed me that each panel can be done individually so we took 2 pieces out for now. The girls and Colleen were tasked with keeping the puppies in the pool while we did that. T2J is quite adept at coming right out of the pool so they had their hands full. After she put the panels together (I still don’t know how but I have slightly more idea now than before), Cindi helped with the wrangling. You’d think 4 people to 5 puppies would do it but apparently they had their hands full ;-) It was pretty funny to listen to them while I tried to put down the linens with help from JillyBean and SammieDoodlebug (she was alternating between ‘helping’ me by holding down the linens I was attempting to spread and making sure the puppies were ok).
After some cuddles with everybody, and toenails done by Aunt Colleen, they had their sort of weekly photo shoot. Hopefully, she will get these and last week’s pictures on Picasa. (In the meantime, they are on Facebook).
After they had a little nap, we introduced them to some puppy gruel. They alternated between eating it and wallowing in it and then eating off of each other. They were much more laid back about it than the last litter but they weren’t really hungry when we did it either. Their mother came in and topped them off while I was getting it ready. They all seemed to enjoy it and kept at it for quite a while but it wasn’t nearly the frenzy it is at times. Tootsie and T2J took to it the fastest; Turtle just dove/fell right in; Chipmunk kept eating and eating and eating; and Kodiak couldn’t decide if he wanted to chew on the bowl, his siblings or eat. T2J is still the only one with his canines through his gums and the Mama’s haven’t started hurling for them so I may give the pupsters a little formula each day until they say it is time to really feed them. Cindi took some videos so I will try to get them up. I’ll post the link when I get them up.
They’ve done some power napping and had a few drinks at the bar. I expect them to do a little playing again before it’s nighty, nighty, nighty time. Hopefully, those people didn’t suck up all of the puppy breath ;-)
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