No major updates to report in the last few days. However, the pups are so crazy this week! They are chewing on anything they can get their little mouths on (including your fingers and toes....and their fingers and toes too). Will had his foot resting on the edge of the pool and a few came over and started sucking, licking, and chewing his toe. Funny babies. They are trying their hardest to get the running thing down and are getting pretty close. Right now it still kind of looks like bunny hops. So cute though! The weaning is going very well. We're giving them 3 meals of gruel a day and Molly still nurses a little in between. I think we're going to have a really smooth transition. Molly is such a good momma with great instincts and I feel like I'm reading her ques accurately. Good team work I guess you could say.
Oh wait I do have one up-date! I almost forgot. The puppies are pooping up a storm! (Gotta love my updates....right?)
On Thanksgiving day (PS- happy belated Thanksgiving!) they created such a mess we had to give them their first bath. Head to toe poop. No lie. They did so great though! No fussing, no panicking. Even under the running water, they just stayed calm and trusted me. They did get a little chilly towards the end but I dried them all off and turned on the heating pad for a while. They were fine after a few minutes all huddled together. Blue got the most chilled- figures since he's the least chubby. They look much better now, feel softer, and most importantly....SMELL better. Molly seemed to get the most stressed by everything. I guess she could tell they were cold and in a little distress. Or maybe it was their smell. Not really sure but she calmed down after a few whimpers and then went back to her own affairs as usual. I totally didn't get any pictures...bummer I know. It was sort of an emergency bath. I walked up to check on them in the afternoon and it was such a dramatic mess that I just went right to work getting them cleaned up. Will changed all their bedding while I washed them up so I didn't have a camera man either. Maybe next time. They've done well at staying mostly clean after that. Only a couple spot-cleans since then. Their poo is getting more solid now that their belly's are getting more used to the puppy food which means less mess. Molly is still good about cleaning up after them too which is not always expected after they start to wean. We'll see how long it lasts. Yeah, it's gross, but anything that makes my easier is fine with me. Just don't let her lick you if you come to visit :-) Eeeeeeww.
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