Unfortunately how some of You know already litter from Elly didn't happen... Not everything is nice and simple every time when it comes to delivery... not at all.
But thankfully Elly is alright and doesn't even realize her litter is gone...
Instead she is totally sure it is all Awwa's fault. Awwa should be the one who took her puppies
(regardless of fact Awwa's two girls are two weeks old now.)
Luckily for Elly Awwa doesn't care what Elly thinks, so her furry butt is safe...
It wouldn't be the first time when Momma Dog suddenly decided that other Momma's puppies should belong to her... And not always their negotiations between those two are peaceful...
Now about that Awwa and her little girls.
Girls are in fact anything, but "little".
Yesterday they turned to be two weeks old and now have their eyes open
wide on big World around. Awwa has tons om milk and those two are huge and fat.
Awwa loves them and taking great care of both, but she is not one of those crazy Moms
who will not step away from their litter. Instead she feeds them , clean them up
and asking to go check other things out...
Mainly to find out what is going on on kitchen, of course.
Above - Awwa and girls are enjoying their family time.
Girls are 10 days old on this photo.
Above: Tory (on a top) and Manya (below). Two weeks old.
Our Pearl litter is 3 weeks old.
Babies' eyes are open, ears are open,too. I love the moment when they start open eyes , it is always very special and touching moment .
They start to walk on their legs , moving away from mom bravely, and have an addition to their nest now with newspaper covered part - it is time to start potty training.
Kenya is a wonderful mother , taking care of her little ones gently and enjoying being with them. She started , however, spend longer and longer time out of nest box .
No need to supplemental feeding for pups yet - mom has plenty of milk , babies are keeping good weight and are not hungry. We will start introducing yogurt very soon as their first "real food" .
They did not find their voices yet - that's , probably , a good thing :-) . But one was growling today when I clip their nails.
We are done with both early programs - ENS (Early Neurological Stimulation ) and ESI ( Early Scent Introduction) . As for this moment 42 different scents were introduced .Scent introduction will continue in a bit different manner now to keep babies adopted to different scents they will be exposed to in real life.
Same with sounds .Puppy place is right in the middle of our living area ,connected with kitchen, so puppies are getting familiar with all typical household sounds. To other sounds they are introduced by recorded sounds - of natures, of animals, different people voices, music, sounds of cars and trains, sounds of crowd of people , farm , city etc.
Basic of clicker training starts now ,too.
Grooming part - nail are done every 5 days. Puppies are rather enjoying nail grinder light sound , they are very relaxed in my hands when we do nails. They are introduced to hair clipper sound and vibration, though real part of grooming with clipper took few seconds - just to make one smooth clipping cut of hair from their little butts, for hygienic purpose , and extra few seconds to run a a comb through their coat. Ones daily we also spend a minute near running water - as a groomer, I know a lot of dogs who flipping out when they hear water running , so we are trying to prevent this unfortunate and needless stress for our pups .
And -here they are!
Ghita
Gretchen
Jumani
Mae
Rita
Enjoy the pictures and stay tuned for more updates, as most interesting time is just starting and I hope you will share it with us!
