Oh Yeah, You Blend

Pictures from 8/24

The milk bar is open (look how big they are compared to Nina!)

Esposito gets a cuddle

…so does Donnelly…

…Connelly too.

Beals in the “off” position.

The two big boys are over a kilo now!

This weekend they will eat their first real food.

Weights this morning are:

• Aniston (yellow): 1133 grams or 2.5 pounds! WOOF!
• Beals (gray): 947 grams or 2.09 pounds
• Connelly (blue): 946 grams also 2.09 pounds when rounded up
• Donnelly (orange): 1031 grams or 2.27 pounds (he actually had lost a tiny bit yesterday morning, so I am glad he caught up!)
• Esposito (dark brown): 989 grams or 2.18 pounds (she was by far the biggest gainer at yesterday’s weigh in and then pulled ahead of her sister and little brother this morning)

The puppies have just started actually playing with each other and with their toys! Jim snapped some pictures and I got some video.

Aniston planning The Great Escape

How cute are they?

Almost….

Dude…brush your teeth! (oh wait, you don’t HAVE teeth yet)

Esposito and Donnelly

Esposito and Donnelly again – bitey!

Jaw wrestling already!

Just since yesterday they have started coming over now when they see you’re beside the box (their vision is getting better every day), and they are also starting to wag their tails! They are still little Mr. Magoos, but you can tell that they are starting to understand what their eyes are telling them now. They were wagging at Tish and Rakki earlier today, and they wag at Nina like CRAZY. Up until yesterday, their tails didn’t seem to be wagging on purpose, but now it really does seem like they have started talking with their tails.

17 days old (the girls are on their backs)

It’s a beautiful warm day here today, so we celebrated being 17 days old by going outside in the puppy pen on the deck for a little while. Big dogs Rakki and Tish came and said hello to us, and we wagged at them as best we could. We liked Outside for a bit, but then we wanted our mom and the safety of the puppy box again! On the plus side, we know how to howl when we are worried! All that fresh air tuckered us out.

Connelly outside

Esposito outside

L-R: Donnelly, Esposito, Beals, Aniston, Connelly

Everyone is doing great – Aniston broke a kilo today!

Milk Comas

Beals & Connelly

Esposito, Donnelly & Aniston

..TEN LITTLE EYEBALLS!

As of this morning, everyone has two eyes open!

They celebrated their two weeks of age by getting dewormed! Nina is now feeding them standing up at least some of the time, they are so big!

Everybody has two eyes now except for holdouts Donnelly and Esposito, who both have two little slivers of eye visible, so they’re getting there. The other three are in full-on Mr. Magoo mode now.

…first, because they will eat whenever there is food available. They push themselves away from the milk bar like overeaters at a buffet, but they’ll cram more in if it’s available if their milk coma is interrupted.

And second, because it was a wee bit chilly here this morning (around 60 F) and they were VERY comfortable. Every time I’ve been worried they were too cold, they were either in the nice loose pile that means “perfect temperature” or spread around the box, which means “too warm”.

(also, they have already made tiny barks! They also make little chirps and buzzes like raccoons. They look more like tiny bears than otters now)

Beals has TWO EYES!

Everybody else has tiny slivers visible, should all open today/tomorrow! So this means minimal artificial lighting for the next couple of days.