Two and a half weeks old!

As usual, I’m slow on the updates – though Tristan has managed to post new photos on Facebook a couple times. But here we go!

The pups are doing just dandy – growing like weeds! They are starting to toddle around, getting their feet under them more and more every day. Their eyes opened over the last 4-5 days, so they now look like real pups, too, with beautiful gorgeous gazes.

They continue to be among the biggest pups we’ve ever had. I updated my weight chart on Sunday morning and did a quick comparison to our other pups. The smallest of these pups is similar in weight to Galena, Matilda, Moose, and PJ at the same age. Just to show how non-predictive weight at this age can be: Galena matured to about 20 lbs, while PJ matured to almost 50 lbs! Matilda is in-between, at about 28 lbs I think. Moose is not quite six months old, so he’s still growing, and I’m not sure how heavy he is now. I should note that Galena was from a litter of 3, so the pups had room to grow more in the womb and it’s perhaps not surprising that Galena didn’t mature to a huge dog. These pups are six (like Matilda, Moose, with PJ one of five), so having squished together in the womb, these pups are likely to be more in line with Matilda and Moose’s mature weights (30-40 lbs). At the top end of these pups’ scale, the only pup we’ve had who was a comparable weight at this age is Oscar Apollo, I’m not sure how big he matured to, but I think in the order of 40lbs.

Anyhow, we will continue to monitor weights, feed Phoenix all she can eat (!), and give them lots of love and stimulation. In a couple weeks, we will probably take them outside on fine days and let them experience the outdoors – but that is still to come.