Four weeks old!

Four weeks old and I don't think they can get any cuter than this! I continue to expose the puppies to as many things as possible to make them well adjusted puppies ready for their new homes. Today they went for a walk, one by one, through the grass. This helps them in two ways, they experience life without their littermates and they get to experience new sights and sounds without the comfort of their usual surroundings and littemates. I was happy to see they were all eager to explore and extremely excited when they would find me close by - greeting me with happy, wagging tails. Here are some pictures that I took of them outside.

New smells of the outdoors!!

Look at the movement and reach on this four week old boy!

What a difference a week makes!

The puppies are three weeks old!!

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This is a brown boy that only has one foot with white on it.

Always a sleepy one in the bunch!

This is the brown boy with four white feet.

This is another brown boy that has white on two of his feet..  The three brown boys look so similar that I have to look at the white on their feet to tell them apart.  We have one boy with one white foot, one boy with 2 white feet, and one boy that thas all four feet with white on them - and a little tip on his tail too!

The puppies are so different this week as compared to last week.  They are up and walking, barking, and starting to play with each other.  They even had their first taste of food/mash yesterday - on their 3 week birthday.  This is when the fun really begins for me, when I get down on their level with them, they are starting to wag their tails and come over to me.  Their little personalities are starting to emerge!

Wow, how time is going fast... they are already two weeks old! They are starting to change so quickly, all of their eyes are open now. They sit up and are also starting to walk. Tonight was the first night they started to play with each other.  And, the first one climbed out of the whelping box... I guess my work really starts for me now!

Lots of sleepy puppies..

And they're up!

Hello world!

Sleepy...

Do you see a theme?

They just had a big meal and I couldn't seem to wake any of them up!

May 16, 2012

Orcia's puppies - one week old

Although the puppies are a week older and have almost doubled in size, they don't look much different in pictures.  So instead of posting individual pictures, here are a couple of miscellaneous pictures.

Starting to push themselves up: