The puppies have been learning so many new things this past week. They have been tugging on our pant legs, learning their names, gone for their first car ride and to a local park, eating new foods like salmon and some green veggies. As of last night they all are asking to go outside to go potty and any accidents in the house are purely due to my not getting them out fast enough. This is true in particular when I'm slow to wake up and take them out. Some of the puppies have figured out how to climb on the lawn furniture and were found reclining on it instead of in the grass today. Only one of the puppies, Abby, enjoys the little kid wading pool in our yard. All the other ones show no fear of it but climb out right away if I put them in, even if the water is comfortably warm. Tonight we gave all of them access to the living room (which is carpeted) for a little while. They could immediately tell by the smell where the other pack members usually rest or sleep and explored everything.
All the puppies are still nursing when mom lets them, usually 3 or 4 times/day. Dancer seems to be a little more ambivalent about a mob of puppies that between all of them now weigh more than she does and are coming at her like a freight train when they first see her after several hours. She has to work hard to maintain her balance at times and also to discipline any puppies that dare to use their teeth at all.
This coming week we will get the puppies used to collars and harnesses and a leash a little. I will post picture about what we do to get them all comfortable. We will also teach the puppies to go into individual crates while until now they had shared one big crate for all of them to sleep in during part of the day with the door open.
The puppies got to explore a new area in our yard, too, that we call it the puppy jungle because it is a little maze of tall plants like sunflowers, corn and milo that are providing lots of cover, things to chew and interesting noises when they run through them. This is where we took the photos for this week.
All the puppies are still nursing when mom lets them, usually 3 or 4 times/day. Dancer seems to be a little more ambivalent about a mob of puppies that between all of them now weigh more than she does and are coming at her like a freight train when they first see her after several hours. She has to work hard to maintain her balance at times and also to discipline any puppies that dare to use their teeth at all.
This coming week we will get the puppies used to collars and harnesses and a leash a little. I will post picture about what we do to get them all comfortable. We will also teach the puppies to go into individual crates while until now they had shared one big crate for all of them to sleep in during part of the day with the door open.
The puppies got to explore a new area in our yard, too, that we call it the puppy jungle because it is a little maze of tall plants like sunflowers, corn and milo that are providing lots of cover, things to chew and interesting noises when they run through them. This is where we took the photos for this week.