Nita X Stormy litter, 3 weeks old.

Today Nita's babies are 3 weeks old , transitional period is over , we are stepping in Socialization period , and it is very big and important step.

A lot of things happened in the short  7 days , from 14 days old to 21 days old. Little ones what  started the week from opening their eyes and  yet crawling around, with very basic , instinctual behaviors - and now, end of week , we see   wobbling on their legs, moving , starting to interact with each other and pay some attention to their humans puppies.

They look almost like dogs now, too.

 ENS and ESI program are finished , but daily individual cuddle sessions ,of course, continue. They all accepting handling very well , and we were able to let them  cuddle with  few new people  ( love the fact that we can use family help on it - as it is safe way to start socialization without the risk for pups health with outside people ).

New experiences were carefully introduced, one in a time - items and bedding/footing  with different structure in the nest box to walk on, to touch and interact with,  little " excursions" to different corners of the house, and even traveling in the big plastic tub as a choice of transportation to another room .

Nest area looks slightly different from mid of  this week - as we started the potty training , nest is still kept small, but now is divided on "sleeping area" and "potty area" . We do see some attempts from pups to go potty in designated place.Good start!

We did hear first bark, too! And one funny growling sound. I think , puppies are totally amused by their own ability to make new sounds - one bark, and everybody is getting very,very quiet , trying to figure out where sound came from. 

We will be setting up extension for the nest box today. Puppies are growing - and so does their little world, until they are ready to be out and make a whole big world their playground. Busy time ahead for us