June 24, 2016

The puppies outgrew their food dish today.

June 19, 2016 Puppy Update Week 4

The puppies are growing up fast and most are gaining about a pound a week. We have begun supplementing mom's milk with organic milk and organic cottage cheese. I think we'll have to begin weening in about a week because Cinnamon simply can't keep up.

Count Chocula at four weeks

Count Chocula

There isn't much of an individual personality emerging yet. The last litter was so individualistic, each puppy having a distinct personality right from the start. These all seem to hang out together and have begun playing much more.

Sugar Pops at four weeks

Sugar Pops

Cocoa Pebbles at four weeks

Cocoa Pebbles

Lucky Charms at four weeks

Lucky Charms

We did have one bit of panic this weeks when Lucky Charms looked like she was having a bowel obstruction. Three hours later, and $500 poorer, it turned out to be a UTI.

Toast Crunch at four weeks

Toast Crunch

Cocoa Crispies at four weeks

Cocoa Crispies

Cocoa Crispies sprouted a penis all of the sudden. How we missed this little detail for four weeks is a mystery. But we now have three boys and six girls.

Alphabits at four weeks

Alphabits

They are beginning to show some of the differences between the two variations of Basset Hound. AlphaBetty is beginning to look a great deal more like her mother (Norman Basset) than her father (American Standard Basset).

BooBerry at four weeks

BooBerry

BooBerry is still very small when compared with the rest, but she is also very pretty and doing well.

Honey Comb at four weeks

Honey Comb

June 11, 2016 Puppy Update Week 3

The puppies are really beginning to move around this week. We were beginning to think they were a little on the S-L-O-W side. The are all somewhere around three pounds and healthy as can be.

Count Chocula is an aggressive male lead.

But the Count is turning into a wonderfully playful puppy.

Everybody came alive this week. When someone walks in the front door they all wake up. Some are even beginning to come see who has arrived.

Sugar Pops is a gorgeous little Lemon Basset.
Cuddly and no too wiggly, she loves everyone.

But she won't talk no stuff off of the boys.

This week they started to play, when they are awake. But they still sleep 90% of the time.

I think Cocoa Pebbles is the biggest of the lot.

But not the sleepiest, despite the appearance.

Everyone has sprouted teeth this week. Cinnamon has put them on a three times a day feeding and they no longer wait for their shift before chowing down.

Lucky Charms is the sleepy one, but she doesn't seem to be missing any meals.

RRRRawwwwr says Lucky.
(More like YYYYawwwwn.)

Last night I put them to bed and a few minutes later they had all jumped out. I put them back, they jumped back out. So the bed is removed from the pen.

Cinnamon's Toast Crunch is a really wonderful Lemon Basset male.
Probably my favorite this week.

The face . . .
That face!

Today they are following Cinnamon around the outside of the pen, hoping for a meal.  Their eyes are wide open and their ears are beginning to show some length.

Cocoa Crispies is near the smallest, but she has a big personality.

Cocoa Crispies loves to cuddle, and was the first to get out of bed to go pee all by herself.
(I know . . .Only a parent could like such a thing.)

Alphabits is the most wiggly little dog.
We call her Alphabetty.

She refuses to have her picture taken.
She has Clarke Bar's muzzle.

We have had to shut the gate on the pen. They are about a day and a half from me having to raise the walls.

BooBerry has begun to develop a brown fur on her head. The scale meant 3 pound 2 ounces

BooBerry says "Blehhh" a lot.

Honey Comb is mostly black on one side and white on the other.

She is the tiniest of them all, but maybe the prettiest.
She hugs your fingers when you pick her up.