Good morning good morning the little dogs say. I think they’d happily say it a lot earlier than I’m willing to start a day so they go back to sleep until a reasonable time but they are really cute whenever they see people.
We added 5 more people to their ‘new people after 4 weeks’ list today. And those people (the people of one of GrandPaw Deja’s littermates) arrived as I was trying to change the puppy linens and clean their floor. The puppies were ‘helping’ so I was letting them play on the piled up dirty linens while I tried to put down the new ones. Instead, I handed them off to the visitors while I did it. That worked much better than trying to keep them in a pool but requires more people than we normally have. It’s time to start using the inside crates for that (and I’ll have to remember to put them where they aren’t able to use them to climb over the fence)
Not too long after that, it was feeding time at the zoo. MarmieCarmie is now slightly more accepting of the idea of crating her posse (She didn’t want GrandPaw Deja or Sister Elle crated before and we didn’t crate her away from her puppies because she didn’t like that. So we adjusted visitors to accomodate that. She still liked the open crates just fine). Now that the pupsters are eating some mush, it is acceptable to her for the big dogs to eat in crates and them for me to feed the little ones. As long as we let her back in in time to clean up the post prandial puppy pottying so we followed that system. The puppies ate quite well; she came in to clean up and I eventually took their dishes in to clean while they helped entertain the company.
As the puppies wound down, we utilized all of the extra ‘holder’ and I gave them their first baths in a basin in the kitchen sink. They were all very good for it and one of them was perfectly content to just float in the water. That’s always funny to me but a nice soak in a lavender scented bath would be relaxing. They all insisted on tasting the water a little (I guess I need to add a lline about not drinking soapy water in the official bath time song but I usually just try to keep their chins out of it) and everybody made to the water straight from the faucet (it’s a progression from being placed into the basin of water to having the rinse water pours from a cup; then the sprayer; and, if all is still well; a little but directly through the faucet a little.)
That hair already holds a lot of water so they had to be “wrung out” (but not always in the ‘proper order according to GrandPaw Deja) and then wrapped in a towel and snuggled dry by the visitor helpers. It’s a tough job but someone had to do it (after I bathed the last one, I snagged one back from one of the double holders as my reward for all of that ‘hard work’ 😉)
The rest of the evening was more routine. Puppies played and played and took a nap and had some dinner and snacks and I tried to hold out until bedtime but my ipad wasn’t charging correctly (I’m lucky if I keep it from dying even charging while I use it, last night I was losing the battle for some reason) ended up sleeping instead of finishing the blog post. Hope everyone had a good nighty, nighty, nighty
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