How quickly the weeks go by. It is hard to believe that Maui’s puppies are four weeks old. This week, we have been focusing on potty training. Although they still sleep a lot during the day, when awake, they enjoy socialising with their littermates through play and by climbing onto my lap for cuddles.
Mama’s Milk is best
Maui continues to be an excellent mother caring for her puppies. She has done a wonderful job feeding them….they are very chubby! Maui is still willing to nurse her puppies, so we haven’t started solids yet. Since birth, she nurses them in a lying-down position, but I have seen her feed them standing a couple of times, which suggests she will begin the weaning process.
Those Adorable Faces
We’re a little late with our weekly blog again because of Piper’s Selection Day prep. These pictures were definitely worth the wait. How adorable are those faces!
The Girls
The Boys
Potty training continues
Partway through this past week, we introduced a separate potty area. This provides the puppies with a whelping box for sleeping and playing, and we encourage them to use the potty box when needed. We use pine pellets in the potty box.
A look back at week four
Looking Ahead to Week Five
- Moving to the main floor
- Introduce Solids
- Puppies will continue learning to use the potty area
- Awake time will increase
- The puppies will continue to socialize with each other through play
- Toys will be added to our whelping box for puppies to explore
- Intorduce play area
- Mama will begin to add the invaluable teaching phase to her caring & protecting responsibilities over the next weeks.
Piper’s Six Week Old Sweethearts
Piper’s sweet puppies are now six weeks old and growing more adorable each day. We’ve had another busy week caring for the puppies and introducing them to many new things. They have grown bigger, and you can see each pup’s unique personality developing. We usually introduce our puppies to the outdoors at five weeks of age, but we’ve experienced very cold weather this past week and weren’t able to let the puppies outside to play until Friday. The puppies love being outdoors and enjoy running and playing together.
New Play Area
This week, the puppies got a new play area. They enjoy the extra space and new toys.
Lots of new toys to explore; a slide, tunnel, wobble disc to name a few. We also have potty boxes and a crate. The puppies explored inside the crate and even took a nap.
Puppy Selection Day
One of the highlights of the eight weeks of raising puppies is Puppy Selection Day. We love meeting the forever families and feeling the excitement as each family meets their new puppy. We had a great day meeting everyone, and I know that each of our puppies has found a loving forever home.
After a busy day visiting many families, the puppies were tired and slept most of the evening.
A look back at week six
LOOKING AHEAD TO WEEK SEVEN
- As always, puppies will continue to get lots of cuddle time.
- Puppies time spent awake will continue to increase
- Puppies will begin dry kibble by the end of week seven
- We will continue to encourage puppies to use potty area inside and out
- Puppies will continue to socialize and learn from each other through play
- Puppies will continue exploring and playing together outdoor as weather permits
- Puppies will continue learning from their mama and our other adult dogsas she disciplines them and teaches them to behave
Look for the Puppies Six week old pictures this week
