Day 4!
That red towel was SO outdated, grey is the new red, it’s what everypuppy is sleeping on in Paris this year! I will do a picture tour of the excitement that is the whelping box a bit later, but if you are watching on the puppycam you can see there is an x-pen around part of the box, that is so I could drape a sheet over part of it to make a “cave” before she whelped. That weird-looking round thing in the electrical outlet is a DAP diffuser.
Everybody gained overnight, the biggest gainers were yesterday’s slowest gainers (stub girl Beals and chest spot boy Connelly), so that is all working out as it should! Beals sounded PISSED last night, so I turned on the light to make sure she wasn’t trapped anywhere, but no, she was telling off her (comparatively) enormous brother Aniston, who was trying to muscle her off the choice inguinal teat (those are the ones furthest to the rear). Nursing puppies have ridiculous amounts of suction power, plus she has tough little girl power, and she stood her ground and he eventually sloped off to find an unoccupied teat.
They are getting used to being handled quite nicely. Sometimes they squeak for a bit when you first pick them up, but less and less.
Day two of puppy abuse early neurological stimulation is done – biggest boy Aniston tried to GRAB the Q-tip when I was stimulating his foot. Nobody minds that exercise, nobody complains about the head up exercise, but NOBODY likes the head down exercise. A couple complain about the on the back exercise, and everybody has this moment when they first end up on the cold towel like “WHAT THE HELL!”.
They are really good at nursing now, with their days of experience, and when they are all nursing, they can really YANK on poor Nina, they look like a piston engine.
Clockwise from top: Connelly, Beals, Esposito
Weights this morning are:
- Aniston 452 grams (15.94 oz)
- Beals 312 grams (11.01 oz)
- Connelly 340 grams (11.99 oz)
- Donnelly 394 grams (13.90 oz)
- Esposito 333 grams (11.75 oz)