Puppies are almost 3 weeks old and really starting to move around. Thought you’d also enjoy their little peeps and squeaks! Besides helping to make this charming video everyone got a pedicure. That was not so much fun but gets them accustomed to having their little paws handled.
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| This is boy puppy #4. He is the one I’m still bottle feeding. He weighs 15.7 ounces and is a sable parti. |
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| Puppy 4 |
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| This is Puppy girl #1. She is a black parti which means she is more black than white. She weighs 14.9 ounces |
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| Puppy girl 1 |
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| This is Puppy girl #2. She weighs 1# 2.8 ounces! She is a black parti and I know her by the “heart’ on her back. |
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| Puppy 2 |
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| This is Puppy girl #3. At 13.5 ounces she is the lightweight of the litter and is a black parti. |
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| Puppy 3 |
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| This is puppy boy 5. He is a chocolate parti. Both Maxi and Dino carry the recessive gene for chocolate so, while they are both black and white, they can produce chocolate and white babies! He weighs 1 # 4.4 ounces |
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| Puppy 5 |
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| This is puppy girl #6. She weighs 14.7 ounces. I know her by the two “specs” on her back. She is a sable parti. Sables will often fade quite a bit so both my sable pups will likely resemble our Marli when they grow up. |
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| Puppy 6 |
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| This is puppy boy #8. He is a black part and I know him by the three dots that run across his back end. He has a sweet blaze and a smidgeon of white around his nose. He weighs 14.5 ounces. |
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| Puppy 8 |
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| This is Puppy girl #7. She weighs 14.4 ounces and is a black parti. I love her full blaze and white muzzle. |
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| Puppy 7 |
Maxi’s puppies are getting so plump! Still do not do much besides eat and sleep. But, their eyes should open soon. They are twelve days old and at this stage are still in the neonatal stage. They are born with a keen sense of smell so they can find their mother’s nipples. Their eyes and ears are tightly closed so they do not hear their own little squeaks, nor do they see each other! They sleep 90% of the time!
I spend several minutes a day holding and caressing each of the puppies so they get used to me. I want them to have a comforting and warm experience with their first human. I stroke their heads, caress their tiny paws and gently tickle their tummies.
Puppies at this stage do not even have control over their bowels so mom has to lick them to stimulate elimination.
Here are a couple photos I took yesterday.
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| This is the little boy I am still bottle feeding. However, today he actually gained a few grams in between feeding so I think he is finally figuring out the nursing routine! |
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| Is this not the sweetest face ever?! |
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| A puppy yawn |
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| Yin and Yang |
I love pink. I really love pink on puppies. Pink tummies, pink paws, pink noses, pink boobies.
What could be better?
Maxi’s puppies are 5 days old now and growing by leaps and bounds. Even the little man I have been tube feeding and bottle feeding is gaining nicely. He still can’t seem to latch onto Maxi’s nipples. Not sure why. Doesn’t appear to have any impediments or a cleft palate so we’ll just have to wait and see. One theory is that he was one of the later pups to be conceived and therefore is younger than the others. Good news is that Maxi is very attentive to him. She she must think he’s worth keeping around!
Enjoy!