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.
