Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Day 33: Transition to puppy food and name that face?


Hmm do we think they are eating enough?
Puppies eat four times a day, roughly at 6am, 10am, 2pm and 6pm.  They have been sleeping all night easily on this schedule for awhile now. In the top picture taken today at 4.5 weeks they are dining on a mix of milk supplement and ground puppy food -alternating w blanched ground raw, after which they get a pan of water with a bit of condensed milk to drink 6/1 ratio.




They are a lot BIGGER now than they were in this second photo but you might not realize it. The puppies graduated today to the 15 inch diameter dish with deeper lip (above) from the 11 inch diameter dish pictured here.  This second picture was taken at 25 days roughly 3.5 weeks.  So they have grown quite a bit in a week, since the different size bowls seem to be the same bowl LOL.




We get a better sense of the pups  size when we look at them in relation to their mom, Kamea, this was taken yesterday.  She still contends with these hungry mouths daily.  Yellow boy stretched out is as long as her leg!  When she walks by they can reach her to snag a draft of milk if she is willing.  Sometimes she is, sometimes, she isn't.  Kamea is weaning them easily at her own convenience -she has access to the pups whenever she likes and is let out of their ex-pen whenever she likes.  Oh good girl Kamea!
So here are the boys today - do you know who is who?

What about the girls who were NOT posing this afternoon?


We will try again later......

4 comments:

  1. So beautiful, we can't wait!
    Also love all your little bits of information and tips...I had two gal dals before and their ears could be problematic in the summers. And coincidentally one of them also once had a tick(we lived in PA - not too far from OH!).

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    1. Yes their ears can get hot particularly if they are ones who like to sleep under cover - so a little dab of the solution is a good thing. I haven't seen a tick yet but i'm prepared. No ticks where we were in CA. More stack pics coming up Sunday night.

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  2. Oh my! They're growing too fast make them stop!!! Hehehe!!

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  3. Tonight they all decided to play "gremlins" and it was the attack of the toothy grinning mouths before bed time. really, i wear heavy jeans and ugh boots while at the same time show one after another there is something else to chew on here. Love these pups!

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