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...
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.
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