Chow Time

Three weeks and another first- real food. The puppies dive in with gusto, loving every bite. Flute loves it too as she's on clean up patrol...and boy they manage to get mush everywhere then pass out in their dishes! The puppies recognize their "people" now as food ladies. Their tails wag and sometimes will give a little woof to say "Hey let's eat!"

Another toenail trim, lots of lovin, and good playtime. The puppies are now exploring the kitchen and do pretty good on the vinyl floor. Surprisingly enough, they are pretty accurate about using the paper in the box for their "business".

Bright Eyes

The puppies have opened their eyes! They are discovering each other, their box and its a whole new world! They are up on their wobbly legs and already play wrestling with their brothers and sisters. Still relying much on smell they know when mom arrives but now they can find her and follow her around the box, their voices rising in a high pitched chorus of anticipation! She is spending more time just outside of the whelping box now; she goes into clean up after them and to feed them, and only sometimes staying for a nap. In a few days they will recognize me as the climbing wall; I look forward to that!

The Walrus Stage

Look at how they are growing ! Flute obviously has plenty of milk for the milk bar. Right now pretty much all they do is eat, sleep and you know what (thank you Flute for being a good mama!). Already they have had their very tiny toenails trimmed. About Wednesday we should see some eyes opening and then the fun begins! Yesterday Flutey forgot herself and took a spin through the swamp :-) She had to have a full bath before she could crawl back in the box with her family! Silly girl. All smiles all day, that's her motto!

Big Yawn

Hug from Mom

Belly Up to the Bar

Good News for Flute

Puppies are here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Flute had nice beautiful puppies on March 31st. It was a long road from losing the litter last fall, but well worth all the effort. Because of the problems we had last time, Flute stayed with one of the co-owners who has a canine reproduction specialist in the vet office. Turns out it was the right call as our Flute tried to have them a week early.

Now we have 2 yellow males, 3 black males, and 4 black females! Flute is a great mom- very attentive, and loving. Here are a few photo's of the new group.