10/10/20 1 Week Old!

How has is it been a week already?  It’s been an eventful week, too. I finally have a working scale again.  The app is a little tricky so far but I think we’ve got it working.  So we are finally ready for some fun with numbers: we now have over 10 lbs of puppies.  The last puppy went over a pound on Thursday. None have doubled their birth rate but Orange boy and Teal Girl are close at 1.93%. The Red girl is smallest but is still 1.5% of her birth rate (and none of them are truly small at this point either) and Orange boy is the largest at 25.4.  Here’s a pretty graph courtesy of Aunt LeAnne:



We are all pretty well settled in to the routines now.  Phoebe continues to be a really good mother but is willing to accept remuneration for her cooperation (i.e. not making the puppy holler for her). For example, as we did the one week photoshoot of the puppies in ‘the box’ (we’ve used this same box since our first litter); after each puppy was done, she was waiting between the box and the pool for me to hold the puppy while she licked it.  

I made a Facebook page for the pictures of the puppies since other Villagers are usually the ones doing the photography.  If you are interested, you can ogle puppies here: https://www.facebook.com/Phoebe-puppies-103192248233701

The one week old photo shoot pictures are being posted there.

We’ve sort of settled on their nicknames (but we also refer to them as their collar color).   Since Phoebe is a mini me of her mother Bela (aka B) and someone mis-pronounced her name as FoeBee, we’ve used Faux B as one of her nicknames.  In that vein, they are: IndigoBlue is FauxCus; Green is Infaux; Purple is FauxMo; Teal is FauxSho’; Yellow is (Faux) Pearl; Red is Faux Real; and Orange is (Faux) Aidan since they were born on the date he crossed the Rainbow Bridge and was a wannabe PWD.  

The puppies are catching on to yawning for me (so I can sniff some puppy breath) and getting a little probiotic dabbed onto their tongues.  (Phoebe gets her cut, too of course.  Today, Deja finally ate it too but he prefers squirty cheese.)

And before we all go Nighty, nighty, nighty: the puppies say congratulations to Aunt Colleen and Uncle Jeremy on their marriage today! Puppy breath to all