Tue, Jun 19th, 2007

Feed the boy(s and girls) meat!

Posted in PuppiesII at 10:27 pm by Lea

Today the puppies had their first taste of Real Meat.
The supermarket had chuck steak cheap on Saturday, so that is what I picked up.
I sliced it quite fine and quite small and sat down with them and tried to keep track of who I had fed while they bounced around and over and through.
They loved it.
With every batch of puppies I have a problem with food boredom – they try soaked dog bikkies and love them! For the first two times, then they have a taste and leave it.
They try mince slurry (mince forked down into small bits and stirred into hot water, to make a meaty to taste to train their digestive system to process real meat) and love it! For the first two times, then it is boring…
Do you see the pattern here? :)
But once we reach Real Meat! all goes well, they love it constantly – and I must say, they are hysterical to feed, as they do back flips and try to steal each other’s serve :)

Next week we will toss a chicken wing in amongst them, and watch them drag it around, and tussle over it, and steal it from each other, and get a little bit of meat from it and have lots of fun, until eventually mum comes over and steals it.
Ah, puppies – all the trouble is worth it :)

Photos:

Baxter's turn for food
Baxter’s turn for food


Feeding Frenzy
All the dogs feeding

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Puppy spit makes your shoelaces icky!

Posted in PuppiesII at 11:58 am by Lea

I have four little puppies bouncing around playing under my feet. I have to be careful where I step! Giant step, giant step… :)

Yesterday we had our big trip to the vet! Four little puppies looked at me with soulful eyes as I held them while the vet prodded, poked, injected and pronounced them beautiful. :)
Must be the best part of the job :) (Mind you as I was leaving another lady as coming in with 2 washing baskets full of some sort of bull dog puppy. I am sure there must have been 15 of them – can you imagine? I can’t!)

We had a 10 o’clock appointment, so I made a box to carry them in, put the harness on Rosie and took her downstairs (I didn’t need to take her, but I didn’t want her freaking out on me if all 4 puppies were suddenly missing), put her in the front seat, put the puppies in the box and carried them downstairs and put them on floor in front of Rosie, loosened Rosie’s seat belt for a minute so she could lean down and see they were there (which was probably pointless – dogs use their sense of smell enough that I’m sure she knew they were there…) and drove away.
Angus bounced up and down excitedly at me when I put Rosie’s harness on, but I was not going to take young master “I’m not going in the vet’s office! I’m putting my bottom down – you’ll have to drag or carry me” when I was carrying a box of puppies. So he had to stay home.
We did the winding 15 minute drive to the vet, and I swear they complained the whole way. OK, it wasn’t a very big box, but that’s better than too much room and sliding everywhere.
Whine, whine, whine – they did not enjoy there first car trip.
Ah, well – Friday we can flea and tick them and that means Saturday we can go outside for plays on the grass! Yay! (Note to self – mow the lawn!)

Thu, Jun 07th, 2007

Puppy Movie!

Posted in PuppiesII at 10:55 pm by Lea

Dave has taken a short movie of the babies – when they first wake up they are all active and bouncy and he managed to catch them on film.
There are two versions – a really poor quality one if you only have dialup and a better quality one if you have broadband.
Go on, go watch – you know you want to (and its really short)

Update: We’ve added an even lower res movie, after comments that some people can’t view the movie. This is really, really low resolution, but it shouldn’t make high demands of your machine.

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