Week Five in Full Effect

 The Candies are growing by leaps and bounds due to their newly found favorite thing: Eating Solid Food!

They went from eating around a cup of Puppy Chow last weekend to polishing off a bit over two cups this morning. Of course what goes in, must come out again and this is a bit of a laudry problem. But we are somewhat used to doing laundry all day, every day, for the last three or so weeks heading toward them going to their furever homes. 

For the last few years we have masked the scent of puppy poo using a simmering pot of cloves and cinnamon. And this workeed pretty well. But this year I bought a handful of incense sticks to try and keep the cost down a bit.  So far so good and lighting the sticks isn't necessary until they sort of run out of naturally nice stuff. 

This week we have well puppy checks at the Banks Vet.  and Six Week Evaluations early next week.

We still have two pups looking for families. If you are interested just give Ann a call at 503-351-0212.

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