So Topaz's puppies turned seven weeks old on thursday. They are defiitely young dogs now - walking, running, playing, and we are even getting a few mini-barks out of them from time to time, in addition to the puppy squeaks and whimpers. They are pretty close to weaned - they still like to suckle, but mama is not keen as they have sharp teeth and are little monsters. She lets them suckle for about a minute (or less) and then starts to growl and try to get away. They are mostly eating solid food now, and drinking water.
We took them to the vet on Tuesday for their first vaccinations and check-up. All passed well - no major issues. Two pups have very slight underbites which shouldn't be an issue with a pet puppy. And one boy just has one testicle so far, but hopefully that will resolve itself in the next couple weeks.
We have decided to release the red female as a pet puppy ovin to her slight underbite. It's not major, but we have had bite issues with some of our pups before and so we want to really try to eiliminate bite issues from our breeding stock so as to avoid any bit issues with future pups. It's a long-term project, and sometimes we might keep pups with minor underbites if they have other attributes that we want in our progra, but for the most part we will be avoiding underbites and overbites in the pups we reatin.
That means we still have two puppies available for pets. Can't yet say for sure which ones, as the allocation won't happen until next eekend, but I think it's likely to be t black boy and either the red or gold boy. We shall see.
Watch for more pictures later today or tomorrow. I'm the "text person" on this blog, and my daughter is the photo duru. She is busy with other stuff at the moment (playing cards with her brother!) so she'll post pix later on. And again, if you wnat more regular phot updates, check out our Facebook page that she keeps pretty updated.
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