People are Useful Things

We did vaccines this morning, so as of Saturday morning we'll all be able to handle the Candies and things get a bit more fun. There are still two tri-colored pups available so get in touch if you need to know more. Ann won't let me keep any of them or they'd be mine right now. :-)

Our puppies have all decided that being picked up and cuddled is okay fine. We work hard at socializing the babies . . . Real hard.

The pups are all still toddlers, big eyes in a new world, but they are eating solid food with gusto. Pixie is doing what she can to fill up their gaps so they are gaining weight pretty quickly right now.  

Puppy Chow Time

There are still two pups which have yet to find families. 

Chic-O-Stix

Mary Jane

This morning we jumped the gun on weening a few days. Pricilla Pixe Stix wasn't keeping up with nine pups demands so we decided to ween two days before scheduling. Once upon a time we used Organic whole milk for this but changed to organic beef broth two years ago. The pups love the stuff and today we gave them about a tablespoon of kibble each, just about the size of their little tummies. 

The upside to all of this is that they will begin sleeping a regular schedule, so it follows that we will be sleeping the night through as well. The downside of  this is that laundry will soon be an all day every day thing. When we ween puppies Pixie won't help keeping things cleaned up. 

The Candies really love it.

Once very soft, but not completely mush, in it goes.

We douse the kibble in organic beef broth.

The whole clan waiting for the Candy's First Breakfast

The Candies are Playing

There are still two pups which have yet to find families. 

Chic-O-Stix

Mary Jane

One of the things we are always looking forward to is the week that our pups start into figuring out how to amuze themselves. Last Monday they began figuring things out so we added little toys to the Areana, but these got little notice until yesterday. One particular banana is always a favorite because it has petals which makes it easy to carry around a big thing. Others are there mostly to carry around once they figure out how.

Playing between themselves looks a lot like gumming whatever is closest, at first, then evolves into pushing and pulling each other around by whatever fur shows up. Some get right into wrestling, some ignore it for as long as they can. Some snarling happens, a few challenging barks, a lot of growling. Occasionally there is something like the chase game that gets started, but they forget what the goals are and the game lasts just a second or two. They have room to explore and more than enough for large games of tag.

Yesterday I spent some quality time with a few of the pups and it was easy to play "catch the nose and challenge games. We try not to allow biting games with humans because it gets very tiresome defending against parahna attacks from puppies that are out for blood. We spend a lot of time "working" at socializing the babies and getting them ready for when visitors begin dropping by. The vaccines will happen soon and we'll be able to let people handle their choices, but for now it is still strictly hands off so you might just hold off coming before a play date. Either way we're glad to have you.

This morning, and I mean two in the morning when someone has to get up an supervise, they were all hard at it. Growling, snapping, wrestling, puppy danger everywhere. Toys flying, gate crashing, puppies barking everywhere. It was beginning to look a bit rough. But this is just the start. And we like it.

It is going to get noisy pretty soon. Closed caption television happiness will become a thing.