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.
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