Six Days Old!
We are closing in on a week! Everybody gained overnight, little spot chest boy Connelly is now the smallest, but is still gaining. It’s a beautiful cooler day here (cloudy, but at least not hot and humid!) so we have the windows open all over the house. So cute to see the little puppy noses twitching like mad at the new smells coming in from outside.
Nina got tripe with her breakfast this morning, how can something that smells so atrocious be something dogs love SOOOO much? Wait, never mind, dogs are gross… Nina is shedding, which is pretty normal from the stress of whelping and lactating, but the post-whelping/during nursing shed is nothing compared to the massive post-puppy shedpocalypse which will happen a couple of months from now, when she will look like she was attacked by a horde of moths and will have so little hair you can see her skin!
Lots of good active sleep happening, feet, legs, tails, whole bodies twitching! Donnelly is sleeping flat on his back as I type this and his little tail is wagging a mile a minute! It looks like he’s having the best dream ever, but it’s probably just his nervous system coming on line.
They are starting to build their little muscles, and they can already stand for a second or two on their front or back legs (not at the same time yet). They can trundle along like turbo-charged inchworms now, I am amazed at how quickly they can move!
Weights this morning are:
- Aniston 534 grams (18.84 ounces, OVER A POUND ALREADY!)
- Beals 390 grams (13.76 ounces)
- Connelly 389 grams (13.72 ounces)
- Donnelly 465 grams (16.40 ounces, ALSO OVER A POUND)
- Esposito 412 grams (14.53 ounces)
If you are watching on the puppycam, you will see that what goes around, comes around, and we are back to red.