The babies are now a week old, they have doubled up their birth weight, their pink raspberry tosies have turned black and ears are now floppy so they are starting to resemble a Leonberger baby.
To celebrate their 1 week birthday puppies started wearing their proper puppy collars so it is now easier to see who is who as the collars are little thicker.
Puppies have had their first 2 nail cuts (thats 328 little nails in total cut) and are getting very cuddly with us, climbing all over who ever is sitting with them & learning the positive connection with us humans.
Ellie has been a brilliant mum and very careful around the puppies so she does not step on or knock her babies. She does have a funny habit of confusing the babies by rolling on her back whilst they are feeding, at the moment the babies can not reach her teats when she does this and get very confused of where did the milkbar suddenly disappear! Of course after next week or so they will be able to see so Ellie will not be able to entertain herself in such manner much longer.
Unfortunately Ellie developed mastitis so she has been little unwell for the last few days with high temperature, but we caught it in time and trip to the vets, hot waterbottles & milking the affected teat have worked and she is back to normal again.
Mastitis is something they can get once the milk really starts flowing, it can develop very quickly and indeed took less than an hour to do so with Ellie.
Sasha seems to think she NEEDS to go and care for the babies and has this daft look on her face when she promptly tries to go in to the puppy room everytime she has a chance (of course she is not let in as mums don’t generally feel comfortable with other dogs near by this small babies). Star seems little unsure of all the puppy smells on us and not quite sure how she should react. She has tried to have a sneaky peek through the hatch connecting the puppy room and kitchen of what is it that makes the noise and keeps us there. We let her and Ellie have a little play yesterday, well it was Star going nuts seeing her friend again and Ellie pretty much ignoring "the loopy pup".
Here is a link to a video I took yesterday.
Orange girl is a very active baby and "runs" around the box all the time, this time ending up checking mums mouth out.
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