Day Thirty Three

Below is my precious liver NUA girl Lilac. All four liver girls have beautiful spotting.Here are two of the other liver girls Magnolia and Viola. Viola was shaking the toy that is why here ears are straight out. Today is the first they have done what I call zoom races. They run as fast as they can which usually ends up in a wipe out. It is too funny! I am hoping for some nice weather this weekend so they can experience outside. Right now they would get swamped in the mud.
Here is great grandfather Garrett actually playing with Brier. Garrett interacting with puppies this small is a rare occurrence. He usually hides from them.

The next two pictures are of Brier.

Day Thirty Two

Tulip and Magnolia are having a ball rolling and jumping over this roll of paper.Daffodil my little angel.
It is still hard to pick out the NUA puppies by looking at them.

Iris standing still for a second.

Tulip and Iris

Sweet little Brier

Tulip

Iris

Day Thirty One

Here is Lilac who is my beautifully spotted liver patched NUA girl.Please can Bizzi come out to play! The next two pictures are Brier who decided yesterday that Chris must be his new Mom. I don't have the heart to tell him that no one has picked him yet.

Day Thirty

As you requested Susan here is Daffodil on the left and Magnolia on the right! Today was a big day for the puppies because they had lots of new experiences. LaDonna and Chris came to help socialize the puppies and both came bearing gifts! LaDonna brought something for each of the adult dogs and lots of obstacles for the puppies to play with. Chris brought yummy brownies for me and lots of toys and treats for the dogs. The puppies were rather unsure of all the strange noises and people they didn't know but before long they made up with everyone and played with their new toys.
After all that excitement they were zonked out.

Yes..... that's right I actually put a picture of Dahlia peeing on the blog. I am pleased to say that it didn't take them long to figure out that the paper was where they should go the the potty and the crate was for sleeping. Good puppies!

Day Twenty Nine

Tulip is getting cuter everyday! Here is Daffodil giving brother Burdock a kiss. She is so pretty it hurts me to look at her knowing she will be someone else's beautiful girl.
This is Lilac sleeping on the red toy. Behind her is Iris the other NUA girl.

Below are 3 livers and 2 blacks... Two of the liver girls look lighter but that is because their spots are still coming through. Some of the puppies have a coat that is a little bit thicker than the others. This happens in many of my litters. Gambit has a luxurious coat and she passed it on in her first litter. It looks like these babies are going to have very nice coats too.

Week Four

Viola is investigating the heat register. They are getting curious so I give them time each day out of the pen to explore. Tonight there was a thunder storm and they were aware of the thunder. They didn't freak out but they did listen each time the thunder clapped. None of my current dogs are afraid of thunder storms but I have had dogs in the past that were really affected by them.It just seems like yesterday that they were born but it has been 4 weeks already. Today I clipped their toe nails again and weighed them. They now weigh between 3 lb 8 oz and 4 lb 4 oz.

Below is Burdock playing with a roll of paper. We go to the newspaper print shop and get the end of the rolls of paper to use in the puppy pen and it works great. Newspaper is OK but the newsprint makes the puppies gray so getting the paper before it is printed on is really nice.

Lilac is trying to get Garrett to come out and play but he isn't interested in playing with them when they are this small.

Bizzi doesn't have any problem playing with them at this age.

Gambit doesn't spend very much time with the pup now that I am feeding them three times a day. I can't say I blame her because they have sharp teeth now and that has to hurt. She goes in and feeds them when she is full of milk but she seems to be producing less now.

Day Twenty Seven

Aunt Bizzi and the kids!

Hey where's the milk?