Day 21---Sleep and EAT

I titled this post Sleep and Eat because that is what tiny puppies do best. The pictures today consist of some of the many ways puppies find to get some rest. It often makes me laugh. 

The puppies have become more active each day but still spend the majority of the day in slumber. 

I take advantage of those quiet times to do things for my big dogs and get piles and piles of laundry done. I hope that this new method of potty training will pay off in the end because it takes vigilance to keep an eye on things and constantly be putting clean pads down to keep their sleeping area super clean. I think several of them are trying to make their way to the potty box as I find the worst wet spots on the pads just outside the box. They get their front feet in but the loaded end hangs over the side. I will say that I think Eiven is the most aware of the box and I have seen him on several occasions head to the box, do his business, and move back to the crowd. I think someone is going to be very lucky to get that puppy.  

 

 
 
 
I continued using my kissy sound and giving tiny bites of ground meat to the puppies yesterday. You should hear the sounds when that is going on. They are all responding and running around like buzzing bees, pushing and shoving littermates out of the way to get a turn. I am getting good hearing responses but still have not isolated each to test that. You see, even a deaf puppy will respond to littermates moving about.

 

Teeth have erupted on most of the puppies and Hope is becoming a little more reluctant to lay and feed them. Yesterday afternoon they were squealing for her to come feed them and she looked at me very pathetically. I thought I heard her say, "you feed them, I'm not going to". I mixed up a batch of the goat milk concoction and placed the saucer in their pen. As you can see from the picture it didn't take them long to figure this out. For a time now Hope and I will take turns feeding and then she will turn that job fully over to me. 

They had milk all over each other but they lapped the bowl dry. I changed bedding then and turned the heater on them for a while because they were wet and cold. They curled up and took a nice long nap.