Tibetan Terrier Puppies - 4 1/2 weeks old

Well what a week!

This hot temperature has been brilliant for drying oddles of 'vet bed', now our little Tibetan Terrier puppies - 1, 2, 3 and 4 - are weaning and then weeing and pooping, ALL over the place...

Above: Claude (left), Ryan, Sable (and Sky asleep in the back)

The Three Boys

Sleepy Sky

"I love my mummy" says Ryan!

Ryan (sitting), Sky and Claude (sleeping)

Summer with her chew. She wanted to hide it in the puppy play area! But ate it instead...

UPDATE

In the last week, the four puppies have not only leant to walk, but now run too! And they are just so funny!!

Eventually their little TT tails will curl over their backs, but for now the pups look a little like a fair ground bumper cars, with tails stuck straight up in the air and running backwards as well as forwards.

They can all escape from the open door of their whelping box and so we've turned the box around so they have a playing area, and have put some fencing up in front of one of the 'french doors' so there is a cool breeze blowing into the room.

Feeding Puppies

At just over 3 weeks, I started to wean our gorgeous puppies (named for now, Sky (no e), Claude, Ryan and Sable). We had managed to nearly get through 12kg of Royal Canin Starter Mother and Babydogs for Medium Dogs, and then couldn't buy any in the shops. The puppies had about four days on this, and really loved it, but then we had to find an alternative and decided on Arden Grange Weaning/Puppy.

The Arden Grange didn't go down quite as well, so I started making up a mixture of very diluted puppy milk - and now they all love it!  I also went for an Arden Grange Adult food, so that I have now started weaning Summer, their mum, off the puppy food.

But Summer is still feeding them, and cleaning up their poop!

I have to say though, that for all of them, they have scrambled egg for breakfast. Summer has an egg mixed in with her biscuit, and the TT pups have it on it's own.

The puppies can now stand up in front of a bowl, but they get distracted, so I sit with one at a time, making sure they eat properly, and enticing them if they try to disappear to play!!


Kennel Club Registration

We have finally decided on the Kennel Club names for all the pups. I'll tell you when they've been confirmed, but the paperwork has been sent off, and it's all in the hands of The KC now.

Tibetan Terrier Puppies - Third Week

Weeing and pooping! Food...but not much. Barking. Playing. Getting stronger as they walk. Inquisitive. Funny. Falling over. They've all been wormed (12,13 & 14 July).  Typical TTs, they don't like having a dirty bottom so let us all know when they've pooped! Have started being brushed (puppy brush). Have started to be weened.  

Tibetan Terrier Puppy Photoshoot by Nicole Loucaides

The following pictures were taken by my photographer daughter, Nicole Loucaides, on 11 July 2013.

The Puppy's 19th Day since birth day.

We were loosing light to get a great selection of images, but I think you'll agree, these aren't half bad!!

 

Our girl, SKYE

 

Fourth born, our lovely Sable/black/white boy

 

Having a cuddle, eyes open

 

"I do love a cutch!"

 

With Mummy Summer

 

 

Third born, 'Claude'

 

 

And first born, Sable (who is sable)

 

As soon as the sun is out, we'll do another photo shoot with our gorgeous pups!

7th & 8th July 2013 - Pee Pee Puppies

I've had quite fun with the puppies today!

The Sable and White TT can definately move quicker and with greater ease than the others! These little faces appeared over the whelping box door opening- 3 of the 4 - trying to escape?! Whilst Skye slept, I bought out the 3 boys and put them on the carpet.  Summer quickly appeared (we call her the vampire because she 'just appears' when you're trying to steal a puppy!!), and the 'feeding frenzy' race began. Summer turned a few circles deciding that clean puppy bottems was preferable to having to lie still and feed. As she turned, Sable & White got on his four feet and it looked like he was chasing her, although he could really only manage four or so steps!  It was the first time, I'd seen more than 2 steps. Such fun!!

I can't work out why this picture is portrait when I cropped it to landscape, but here is a cheeky little face, looking for fun!!

Our Tibetan Terrier team are now looking less like guinea pigs and a little more like REAL puppies.  Their eyes are more open, although you can tell they can't see as clearly as they will be able to, yet. Their ears are more than little flaps and more like the start of TT ears which are opening and not just little buds.

Their nails are growing sooo fast - and I think I'll have to give them their 3rd nail cut in 2 1/2 weeks! Poor Summer, when they pad at her teats!

Their hair is starting to get a little thicker too.

But their tails are still little sausages! I can't believe that they'll have the lovely TT curl up tail!

Four little puppies...all in  row...

And why pee pee puppies???

Now the puppies are larger, there is more wee...  Twice today, I've been holding a puppy (different one each time), and I let Summer lick their tummies and make them wee.  Then she turns her head to look at something else.....and I have a puppy sprinkling wee everywhere!

4th & 5th July - Eyes Opening

Our guinea pigs...sorry, Pedigree Tibetan Terrier puppies, are getting bigger and bigger. They are getting a touch more control of their heads but do look a bit like those nodding dogs you sometimes see in the back of cars!

The pups aren't doing too much except sleeping and feeding, so sorry that the pictures aren't too different to previous days.

I've seen the sable/white and 'Claude' almost standing on all fours! But as quickly as they stand, they fall!  Won't be long!

And the feeding frenzy! It is sooo funny.  Mummy TT Summer, walks into the whelping box, and from the four courners of the box, these little bodies whiggle at 'top speed' towards mummy's tetes! Zoooommmmm...

Sleepy Sable

Sleeping in pairs

Cute

Big boy, Claude

And here is Sable/white. He is a real whiggler! But today, we could see that his eyes are JUST starting to open. 'Claudes' seem to, too!

But Claude is very cheeky... We found him trying to climb out of the whelping box! We ARE going to have fun with him, when he can walk!!  He he...

2nd & 3rd July 2013 - Puppies

This seems to be Our Girl's favourite sleeping position. Some of the boys do it too, but then they can't always roll over again and start squeaking!

Our Girl - We're playing with the name SKYE for her

I regularly clean out their big whelping box. On most occasions Mummy Tibetan Terrier, Summer, has climbed in with her pups - there's now, not much space for her too!!

A moment of contemplation for Summer, looking out of our front window.
She's not so interested in her bones at the moment...

This is 'Claude' - he may be a little bit more independant than the others
but he loves cuddles and being carried around, and doesn't wriggle too much when I cut his nails!

The puppies all having a nap. At the moment all they really do is sleep and eat.
The lull before the storm, I'm told!!

Day 8 & 9 - Puppies after One Week

All is still going really well!

It's funny watching Summer's (Mummy Tibetan Terrier) reaction to her puppies. She likes to feed them, then go for a walk...but a single tiny squeak...and she's back! 

I was quite concerned about her last week, as she was panting and digging so much. I did a fair bit of research online, and it sounded like there were a lot of people like me, worrying about continual panting. But a few of the articles and forum entries explained that as long as the bitch had been checked out (which she was), then it would be quite common and some dogs even panted for about 10-12 days.

Luckily and with great relief, Summer started to recover and gradually stopped panting on day 7/8, so by day 8/9, she was more relaxed.

Summer can be a fussy eater but she has been loving the puppy food. Now, however, I have to add 'liver cake' sprinkled in, with a little hot water. For breakfast she has scrambled egg with her puppy food. Once we start to ween the puppies next week sometime, we will start reducing puppy food and adding her adult food, so that by the time the puppies are fully weened (about 6-8 weeks), she'll be just on adult food (Wainwright's Light Adult Complete Dog Food).

A mass of hair, or a bundle of pups?!

The pups are looking a bit like guinea pigs right now - but Our Girl (black) has a cuddle with Sable

We don't often see them sleeping together, but with the warm weather, we opened a back door (2 rooms away). It was shut again, quite quickly...

Sable loves to cutch up to Mummy Summer

You can just about make out the four pups!

The puppies are changing too. They're starting to get a little control of their heads, only to lift them for a few seconds, but are turning them!  Their whiskers above their mouths, have also started to grow a little. Rather than tight closed eyes, you can see that their eyelids are developed over their eyes and you can now imagine them looking around.

Weight wise, 'Claude' and Our Girl, remain the heaviest, but Sable and white/sable are getting heavier in great leaps. We think the puppies have just taken on different genes!

The puppies can roll over, and they can travel at quite some speed across the whelping box shuffling on their tummies.

They do look like guinea pigs...really! But I know they'll start to look more dog like in the next few weeks...he he

This week we hope that the puppies will open their eyes and at the beginning of next week, their ears too, which are just tight little buds right now.

Oh, and there is movement in their tails! Only a little but we've all noticed it at different times...

We are trying to come up with a name for Our Girl. We (the family) were so sure on Summer as a name, that we're sure we'll come across another that we all agree on too...  But it's taking a long time.