Oh Spirit

Not sure what to do with Spirit. She is so in love with this pup and covets and protects her. It is a struggle to get her to go outside but on the otherhand, she tries to take over any of the other pups too.

Here is the gallery.

Today, Spirit's pup was checking out Sage's pups. You will see her kissing each in a video. It's a riot.

25 Days Old

In a few days we will try her on food. She is walking quite well. It's fun to sit in the area with an interactive pup. They are all getting that way now but she is further ahead as she is a week older. I may have to take the others out of their box so I can lay down with them.

Here is the gallery.

I have a lot of grooming today so blogs will be short. We also had an issue last night with cameras pixelating. I sent a message to  Dennis but he didn't see it on his ipad. So, there are less videos. It is I that wakes up at these times to take videos. Sometimes I fall asleep and you get an extra long one.

Here are the videos.

24 Days: New Area

This one is now out of her whelping box. Ms. Spirit was not sure what that meant but she has adjustment. The pups didn't seem to care at all. She explored all over the place. We thought of putting the 2 others outside their whelping box so they could see each other but maybe in a few days when I am not so crazy busy.

Here is the gallery.

She is doing well. She did better with a crowd of 4 vs 7 but our method of madness is we will keep exposing them to each other till we merge the 3 into one pen. Then your confusion will begin or perhaps not as all 3 litters are different. We shall see.

I call this first outside the whelping box and visits to the others, a success. We will keep at it. It is important for their development to have many personalities that they are exposed to.

Watch the videos.

23 Days Old

The little one is now 23 days old. We have started to expose her to the other pups. See the videos. We are also conditioning the other moms to them seeing each other with no dividers between their whelping area. Soon, in the next day or two this one will come out of her whelping box.

Here is the gallery.

We have already tried her on the pad but it is foreign to her still. They get this from conditioning. Each time they wake up, you put them on till they are heading to the pad themselves.

22 Days Old

Here is the gallery.

Momma tends to play with her but I think she is going to love having the rest to play with.

I am hoping in a week or 2 this can happen.

Momma is very attentive and they sleep cuddled most times.

The videos are up.

Time to weigh everyone and change the bedding then that dreaded laundry.