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Week Four
Week Four started with new digs. Lupine was encouraging the puppies to leave the whelping box, so we decided it was time for an expansion. Everyone seems very happy with the new arrangement, although it does mean more cleaning and more laundry for us!  Loopy can easily hop in and out of the pen and so far, the puppies cannot get out....

As their first meal was such a success, we are now feeding them twice a day, soon to go to three times a day. They are getting a slurry of ground turkey, goats milk yoghurt, and goats milk. They are getting very good at eating out of their little bowls. We say "pup pup pup pup puppy" when we bring them their food and they immediately wake up and come running when they hear it. Soon we will start using the whistle at meal time as well.

Puppy Breath!
Dinner for Three
Can we come out?
Lupine introduces her puppies to bones
On Saturday night, we gave all of our adult dogs marrow bones. Lupine would not settle down with hers and kept wandering around and whining by the baby gate into the puppy room. So we let her into the puppy room, where she hopped into their pen with her bone and let all the puppies inspect it while she chewed on it. They sniffed at it and were interested, but soon decided that they would use the opportunity to nurse! The following morning, Lupine started regurgitating for her puppies... of course she waited until just after we had cleaned out their pen!  She definitely seems to agree that it's time for solid food, although she is also very happy to let them nurse, despite their teeth.
Weds March 25th

We've been very busy this week, so not much time for taking photos or updating the website. Liz has 3 big projects going to print in the next week, so please bear with us....! We are still able to find plenty of time for the puppies though.

They are getting very adventurous all of a sudden. We let them out of their pen in the spare bedroom and they motor down the wood floor in the hallway to the dining room and even turn into the bathroom to check that room out. They have yet to learn that it's where dogs get "BATHS"!  The other very cool development is that they are now picking things up and carrying them around like proper little retrievers. We have a small mouse toy that they particularly like to pick up and tote about. Must try to get a photo of that...... We have also introduced them to a duck wing and a grouse wing, both of which they are very excited about and all three puppies have carried them around (must try to photograph that too....).

Our other dogs have all seen the puppies now, in one way or another. Tally and Pipit have been allowed in the whelping room to look at them and both are very excited about the new additions to the pack. Pipit is especially infatuated with them and when she's in the house she sleeps by the gate to the puppy room, just waiting for a chance to see them again. Last night the puppies were busy exploring the spare bedroom and while I was focusing on one puppy, puppy 2 zoomed down the hallway and when I noticed where she was, she already making formal nose-to-nose introductions with Grandmother Tally, complete with furiously wagging tails on both ends! Soon they will move out of the whelping room and into our kitchen, where they will all get to know eachother even better.