The Moonshadows are four weeks old!
I really need to be better at quickly identifying puppies in photos but everything happens quickly around here, as I bet you can imagine — and so this is a really cute Moonshadow.
Their noses darkened up quickly and so that makes it harder — I cannot go back and use noseprints to identify them. If I had to guess — based on the right foot, I would say that is Neil.
Below — hmmm and Arche (see the green collar?)
Titan and Daisy…
With both litters, I regularly do shift nursing — five on and five off. I have a system for remembering the two “teams” from each litter so that things can be fair.
In the Moonshadows, five puppies have swiss kisses — perfect! One team consists of the “kissed” puppies and the other team consists of the unkissed, so to speak (but trust me — they all get kisses!).
The Bright Stars — now five weeks old! — were not so obvious. What I did was make a team of the four girls and the smallest boy, which was Perseus at the time I formed the teams. So all girls plus him — and that is why Perseus is now called James.
If you understand why that is, post in the comments and I will send you a prize :)
The girls plus James always get to eat first during shift nursing because when it is everyone at once, I know those Baby Boy Hippos push their way to the best seats at the Milk Bar.
Think linebacker puppies — and here they are protesting this arrangement…
This is Claire nursing some and kissing another…
This is Sirius — I keep a close eye on what they are chewing because puppies can and will chew off pieces of things and swallow them, and that can go badly…
Since the puppies were familiar with the new playroom, it was time for new stuff today…
I made a video so you could observe puppy reactions to new things. Note — puppies are not forced into new things — we let them decide to explore…
Claire will see her vet today to confirm the diagnosis and start making a plan; I also scheduled a teleconsult with Dr. Sherman Canapp for next week. One cannot make good decisions without information, and Claire deserves a good decision.
Have a colorful day!
Evening
We all feel like this tonight so we are calling it a day…
