The puppies are now one week old and growing well. They still spend most of their time nursing and sleeping, but we do see them trying to crawl a bit around the whelping box already. Slight cracks are starting to form between the eyelids and we’ll start to see eyes by the weekend or early next week.
Galena is a very relaxed mother. She doesn’t like the other dogs getting too close, but isn’t too snappy with them, just growling to let them know to keep their distance. She also is fairly relaxed about people handling her pups. We haven’t had any real strangers visiting yet, but our kids’ tutor, the housekeeper, and a couple of family friends have all been over and she hasn’t seemed to mind people getting close to the pups, though if any of us takes a pup out of the whelping box she is anxious until it’s back with its littermates.
The two males are the biggest of the litter – both are well over 500g now – more than double their birth weight! The females are all a bit smaller, with the chocolate parti female and solid chocolate female being the smallest. One of the caramel partis has very little colour – she’s almost solid white with just a few wee spots. The other has some nice but small caramel spots scattered here and there on her coat, especially over the eyes and ears. The chocolate parti has some lovely markings very evenly spaced over her back and head, and nicely symmetrical – she is a real beauty.
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