Day 25: Puppies are 3.5 weeks old - lots of changes: paper training,  drinking from a pan, baby teeth and play on the grooming table.


Here is the first nursery set-up before we cut down the low barrier; you can see that we also used the barrier to separate groups of pups for nursing shifts in the first 7-10 days so that we could make sure all puppies had good nursing time:

At three weeks and 2 days we cut out the low door that allowed Kamea to go in and out but kept her puppies in their large four foot by five foot whelping box.  We also removed the pig rails from inside the whelping box.  The ex-pen floor is covered with the same interchangeable, washable three foot square incontinence pads that are in the whelping box. Here are the puppies first time out:

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River Birch Blue Boy

 Ivy League Lt. Green Boy

 Sugar Maple Leap Orange Girl

 It's Pouring Pink In Cleveland Girl

 Purple With A Purpose Girl

 Outback Valentine Red/Blk Girl

 Red Velvet Cupcake Girl

White Platinum Girl

 We covered all of the ex-pen area with newspaper so that when the pups ventured outside the whelping box the only surface they could walk on was newspaper:

On The Hunt Hunter Green Boy and Champagne Toast Yellow Boy

 In two days time, the pups were using the newspaper to potty (intelligent Dals) so we removed the day bed, brought in the grooming table, widened the area of the ex-pen but left the newspaper on the same half as before:

Kamea continues to nurse but with the little baby teeth coming in we are supplementing the pups.   They get sucking time but they are not so hard on their mom.  Here she's coming in to nurse them

Here is second breakfast! 

Smart pups keep the other bedding area clean - that's where we sit when we play with the pups.  Lots more individual pictures are up in the website puppy albums; we've added a new menu tab for "Puppy Candids" that are group pictures.  Enjoy!!!