Belated birth announcement

Sorry for the delay, folks - I had eye surgery and am not seeing well at all so my kids are now helping me to get this post up finally!!!!

WE HAVE PUPPIES!!!

They were born three weeks ago  - yes, that's right, they're already 3 weeks old. The birth date was August 29 - so we ow know that Galena's favourite umber is 29 - her last litter was born on Jauary 29. 

There are 8 puppies. - one solid chocolate  female, 1 solid caramel female, one chocoalte parti female, ad 5 caramel parti - 3 male, 2 female. 

First to arrive was the solid chocolate girl. She is calm and quiet and loves to give kisses.

 Next out was the chocolate parti.She has a mostly chocolate head with a white blaze down the middle and a white muzzle. She is bouncy and quiet at the same time, and is very playful and fun.

Third was the caramel  solid girl She has a white blaze down her forehead as well, as well as white o her toes and chest. She is very fun and silly and bouncy, and extremely playful.

 The next one to arrive was one of the male caramel partis. He has a small saddle on his back and a dot of colour on his forehead as well as of colour covering bot eyes. He is quiet and sometimes a little whiny but very sweet and likes giving kisses. He is the second lragest of the pups and eats a lot.

 The fifth was another male, who does not have very many spots He has one spot on his back and two near his rear end as well as similar markings on his head to his older brother.He is quiet if he's not hungry but lets you and mama know when he wants to eat. he sleeps a lot and likes to tackle his sisters but they usually win because they are bigger than him.

  Then another female arrived who was the smallest at birth but is now second smallest. She has a half saddle and a big spot on her rear end and again similar head markings.This girl is very quiet and super super sweet and very adventurous.

  The second-last was another female who is very pale with hardly any colour markings on her at all, just a faint band of colour around her head and small saddle, but the markings are quite pale and not too much darker tan the white.She is really playful, active and likes to run around but she also is feisty and pushes the others away to get the best milk.

  Finally the last was the third male, who was and continues to be the largest of the lot. He is very big and very very playful s well as calm and sweet-tempered.

Now at three weeks of age they have opened their eyes about a week ago and are starting to toddle around on their four legs like real puppies, though they still stumble and fall a lot. We are just now beginning to feed them a little bit of soft mush to supplement what  they get from mama, who for her part is eating voraciously to produce enough milk to feed eight hungry babes.

In our next post we will give you a bnuch of pictures.