Three week update

What a difference a week makes! Now three weeks old, the pups are getting more active by the day! Their eyes and ears are now fully open and they are getting steadier on their legs. On the vinyl flooring they still tend to slip and slide, but with a blanket under their feet they are toddling along quite well and we’ve even seen a bit of running going on. They are starting to play together a bit and get a bit more interested in what’s around them. They still spend the majority of their time sleeping, but that will start to change as time goes on.

 

We gave them a bit of food for the first time today to see how they’d react. They weren’t particularly interested, except for the big chocolate boy – who walked through it and then licked some it off himself! (Mama finished the cleanup job.) At this point any food we give them is just to start getting them interested in eating something other than Mama’s milk and to supplement what Galena cann provide – as the pups grow bigger and eat more, it will be harder for her to produce enough milk for them so we like to help her out. But Mama is the one who decides when to wean the pups – usually once they get their teeth and it starts to hurt when they suckle. Those sharp little teeth will start appearing in another short week, at which time the supplementation will start to get a bit more serious – and their interest in it will likely increase.

The sizes now range from 1.1 to 1.4kg. If they continue to gain like our other biggest pup from Amore’s litter of April 2012, the biggest boys might get to 40 lbs. But if they behave more like their Mama, who started out big but whose growth slowed, they might just end up at 25 or so. Seeing as Galena and Spirit are both about 22-25 lbs and there are no big dogs in these pups’ recent ancestry, I’m thinking they may well be more like Galena in terms of growth 
 patterns. It remains to be seen.

While we still have only one pup spoken for, we’ve gotten an incredible amount of interest in the past few days and there’s a chance – if things work out – that they might all be spoken for within a week or so. So if you’re interested, don’t wait too long, or you might have to wait another six months (at least) until Galena has her second litter.

  BOY 1 

 

  BOY 2  

  CHOCOLATE GIRL 

  CHOCOLATE PARTI GIRL   

  CARAMEL PARTI GIRL 1  

 

    CARAMEL PARTI GIRL 2